Gosling and colleague Lindsay Graham also have conducted recent work showing that judges are able to guess what a bar or cafe is like in terms of its ambiance just from looking at profile pictures of people who frequent it. “That is, I think we’re using space all the time to influence our feelings, but lay people and academics alike haven’t really taken on board the significant role that spatial ambiances play in our day to day lives.” “Space is a pervasive yet ignored mechanism for regulating one’s emotions,” he says. Whether you are sitting by a window or a wall could completely change how you feel about that space. In his talk, Gosling will be urging us all to think about our surroundings - everything from where we are located in the space to how we decorate it. More generally, “features of the space are probably affecting your levels of comfort, the emotions and thoughts you are experiencing, and the actions in which you are likely to engage.”Īt next week’s SPSP conference in Austin, Gosling will present a body of research about how people influence their spaces and vice versa. “What’s particularly interesting is that in evoking these ambiances people do a lot of things - for example, lighting candles to evoke a sense of romance that affect the air quality of homes - that sometimes present some serous hazards to health,” Gosling says. And they found that 62% of participants wanted their bedrooms to evoke a sense of romance, comfort, relaxation, love, and privacy. In his study of about 200 people, for example, 60% of participants chose one of the following words to describe the ambiance they most wanted for their kitchens: organization, family, productivity, abundance, and togetherness.
Each of those words has many sub-traits that describe how people want to evoke a particular ambiance in a particular space. The other four? Restoration, kinship, stimulation, and intimacy. Turns out that those two themes are among six sets of traits that people commonly use to create ambiance in their home spaces, according to new work by Sam Gosling at the University of Texas-Austin. Throughout this renovation, my thought kept coming back to two major themes: productivity and storage. My office recently underwent a makeover – replacing open and unwieldy shelves with sturdy drawers to conceal my clutter, and ditching my tiny desk for a spacious one with lots of open space for me to organize my projects.
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