Personality, Life Satisfaction, and Locations of Homes (12-15-16)
Jokela and colleagues probed links between the location of homes, personality, and life satisfaction.
Jokela and colleagues probed links between the location of homes, personality, and life satisfaction.
How we sense and make sense of the environment around us—and how our brains work with information, in general—varies based on where we are on Earth. Expectations and interpretations of experiences also aren’t the same across the planet.
It seems that acquiring things can indeed make us happy, as long as the new items align with our personality.
Some of us are more attentive to the people around us and others to the place we're in.
Not all of us may find the same sorts of places restorative
Personality traits align with green behavior
Designers working with clients and users from cultures different from the ones they themselves grew up in will find research done by Yang and his team useful.
All humans, but particularly those who are introverted, can be overwhelmed by being in spaces with lots of other people.
Personality and preferred neighborhood are linked
Rubin and Morrison have learned that whether people are more individualistic or collectivistic influences how cities are evaluated.