Study: Urban Green Spaces Lower People’s Frustration and Stress
What is the relationship between the environment, behavior and emotions? What kinds of environments will make us happy? Environmental psychologists try to answer this question.
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Do We Have Free Will? People Believe They Have More Free Will Than Others
The discussion whether we have free will or not is endless. Some people like to attribute all happenings to environmental or social influences, which reflects a deterministic point of view. Others prefer to look at people as …
Having a Social Purpose Makes a Physical Task Seem a Lot Easier, Study Shows
A study by Durgin and colleagues (2009) finds that the burden of wearing a heavy backpack is lessened when a social purpose is given in form of social demands. In other words, we perceive the burden as less burdensome, when a …