Go for a Winter Walk!
Researchers determined that “spending time in snowy surroundings can improve how you feel about your body. . . . Before and after walking in a snowy woodland in the Silesia region of Poland [people...
Sound, Complaints, Repercussions
Mueller-Trapet shares that “Whether it’s the constant stomping of feet or the thump from dropping something . . . ‘impact sounds,’ are one of the main causes for complaints in multi-unit residential buildings and...
Greenspace Metrics, Outcomes
Nieuwenhuijsen and team share that “Recently a new 3-30-300 rule of thumb for urban forestry and urban greening has been proposed. . . . The rule requires that every citizen should be able to...
Art and Culture
Ho and colleagues report that their “research investigates the appreciation of visual arts cross-culturally by hypothesizing and testing a cultural-match effect (i.e., people tend to appreciate same-culture artworks more than they appreciate different-culture artworks)....
Co-Working May Not Support Business Creativity Long Term
Haefliger and Yacoub determined that “Co-working spaces can limit the creativity and innovation of new businesses. . . . These shared spaces . . . may offer initial opportunities to collaborate but, before long,...
Pushes Toward the Familiar
Winet and O’Brien report that “In eight experiments with nearly 6,000 total participants, [they] explored whether people tend to prefer novel, exciting experiences, such as trying a new restaurant, or familiar ones, such as...
Thinking While Wearing a Mask
Smerdon found that “mandatory mask wearing has a negative causal effect on the cognitive performance of competitive chess players. I analyzed the quality of almost 3 million chess moves played by 8,531 individuals (ages...
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