Reuters has an article about “Affluenza“; how rampant consumerism appears to be increasing the incidence of depression and mental illness all over the globe…
Category: Emotion & Business
Last September, I was in Sweden to give a presentation at Design and Emotion 2006. While shopping in a local department store, I came across a pair of pants that I liked…
The recent introduction of the iPhone has me thinking again about how Apple excels at communicating a consistent personality for each of their products…
An article on ScienceBlog.com discusses how researchers have used a functional MRI to image the brains of shoppers while they make purchase decisions…
Medical News Today has an article about how feelings of self-esteem affect materialistic values in youths and adolescents…
A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that positive moods foster creative thought…
Creative Generalist has an interview with Jane Fulton Suri from IDEO about tapping into what she calls the “empathic economy”…
New Scientist has an article about how making complex decisions by relying on the unconscious mind results in more satisfaction…
NY Magazine has an article about burnout in the workplace. The article is notable in that it talks about how one of the effects of the “always on” economy is…
From the website Design & Emotion, Marco van Hout interviews business leaders and folks from leading design agencies on the topic of emotion and design…