Bake-Off a Winner!
Are you following The Great British Bake-Off? If you are, that’s great because Bake-Off’s sets are doing all sorts of good things from an environmental psych perspective. The Bake-Off happens in a tent, which...
The Science of Using Scents
Happily, for most of us, most of the time, are noses are doing their job and we can pick up odours in the world around us. Scientific studies consistently link particular smells to particular...
Boost Professional Performance
When you’re doing work that requires you concentrate, your brain, like a sports car, fires on all cylinders, relaxing colours, options that are not very saturated but relatively bright are best. Focused thinking is...
Indoor plants
Indoor plants are a magic elixir, poised to make our lives better, as long as we remember to water them (or dust them if they’re good fakes). Research shows that being around plants boost...
Tense?
Add an aquarium to your world. Fish are the perfect new friends to invite into your home. Research consistently shows that watching actual aquariums or videos of them, does good things for our...
Colours around us
We’ve chosen three books which might appeal to you, to show you how colour has an impact on us. Published research makes it clear that the colours on the surfaces around us have a...
USING COLOUR
Sometimes, what we really want more than anything from design is for it to help us decompress at the end of a long day or to provide the burst of energy we need to...
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