Posted by admin on September 6th, 2009 in Psychology
In today’s frenetic world, many urban dwellers spend more than 80% of the day indoors. Bringing nature in to living spaces by enhancing homes and offices with ornamental plants has become another popular facet of the move to “green” our lives. In addition to their aesthetic beauty, indoor plants have been shown to offer psychological [...]
Posted by admin on September 6th, 2009 in Psychology
Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School of Economics. While previous studies have focused almost exclusively on punishment for promoting public cooperation, here rewards are shown to be much [...]