Archive for December, 2006
Materialism and Self-Esteem in Children
Medical News Today has an article about how feelings of self-esteem affect materialistic values in youths and adolescents…
Video Games Provide More Than Just Fun
Reuters has an article that has also appeared on CBC News on how video games provide more than just fun, satisfying deeper psychological and emotional needs…
Emotions and the Immune System
Science News has an article about how positive emotions reduce the emergence of cold symptoms… Read more
Road Rage on the Information Highway
EE Times has an article about how people exposed to poorly designed and hosted websites exhibit symptoms similar to those experienced during road rage… Read more
Positive Emotions Foster Creativity
A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that positive moods foster creative thought…
Tapping into the “Empathic Economy”
Creative Generalist has an interview with Jane Fulton Suri from IDEO about tapping into what she calls the “empathic economy”… Read more
5. Colour, Emotion and Attention
Colour is one aspect of an interface that prominently comes into play when we are discussing design and emotion for products, software and websites. As with anything that evokes emotion, there are both conscious and unconscious processes involved…
Unconscious, Emotional Decisions?
New Scientist has an article about how making complex decisions by relying on the unconscious mind results in more satisfaction… Read more
