Jasmine: Calming
The smell of jasmine can reduce anxiety.
The smell of jasmine can reduce anxiety.
The language you speak influences how you experience the world that surrounds you.
Lamy and his colleagues have investigated how names, particularly place names, make it more likely that people will think specific sorts of thoughts.
Finnish researchers have found that the more a person expects to like using a new cell phone, the more likely they actually will like using it.
As Carney and her colleagues relate, some physical postures are more indicative of power than others: “Humans and other animals express power through open, expansive postures, and they express powerlessness through closed, contractive postures.”
Colzato and colleagues have completed an intriguing study indicating that religious views are related to whether people literally focus on details or an image overall.
Researchers using functional brain imaging have determined what actually happens in our brain when we see tranquil scenes while hearing the corresponding sounds (e.g., looking at the ocean and hearing the sound of waves).
It may be time to rethink the hallowed status of the golden section.
When does something really belong to someone?
As reported in earlier blog posts, design has a significant influence on experienced mood.