In the spotlight: Brightness increases self-awareness and reflective self-regulation

Steidle, Anna; Werth, Lioba

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.12.007

Cited by 49 publications

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“…However, the dynamics behind the effect of lighting conditions on self-disclosure may not be that straightforward. For instance, Steidle and Werth (2014) have reported that people tend to have greater self-awareness and tend to exert greater extent of reflective self-control when exposed to bright compared to dim environments and did not find effects of lighting on perceived anonymity. Thus, there seem to be multiple possible explanations for the observed effect of different lighting conditions on self-disclosure.…”

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confidence: 99%

Can Lighting Influence Self-Disclosure?

2017

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With the advent of social networks where people disclose a lot of their information and opinions publicly, this research attempted to re-look at the effect of environmental lighting on willingness and actual disclosure of personal information. Previous literatures mostly addressed counseling setups and the findings were mixed. In order to clarify the effect of lighting on self-disclosure, two experiments were conducted with reported willingness to disclose (Experiment 1) as well as actual disclosure (Experiment 2) on a range of topics like social issues, body, money, work, and personality. While quite a handful of studies have reported differences in disclosure from very subtle environmental lighting manipulations, in both experiments we could not find any effect of ambient room lighting conditions on self-disclosure. These results call for caution both in over-interpreting subtle environmental effects and in increased generalization of perceptual metaphors to actual behavior.

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confidence: 99%

Can Lighting Influence Self-Disclosure?

2017

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“…But light also guides and directs attention and awareness (Steidle and Werth 2014;Veitch 2001) and has meaning even to the point where it induces cognitive associations (e.g., Elliot and Maier 2014;Schietecat et al 2018aSchietecat et al , 2018b. For instance, quite strong associations exist between brightness and goodness (morality) but also activity and liveliness, in contrast to how darkness is generally associated with immorality and, to a lesser extent, inactivity (Schietecat et al 2018a).…”

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confidence: 99%

Tutorial: Theoretical Considerations When Planning Research on Human Factors in Lighting

Kort

2019

LEUKOS

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Research on human functioning is notoriously difficult. This particularly holds for the study of light effects, at least if one wants to go beyond establishing that changes in light "have an effect" and understand why this effect occurs-in other words, if one wants to make causal inferences about the mechanism behind it. The latter is, of course, crucial for generalizing insights and being able to use them effectively in other contexts. The culmination of many decades of research has taught us that light affects psychological functioning in numerous ways and through various pathways. This implies that, regardless of the investigator's particular interests in either of those mechanisms, generally all will be at play, simultaneously, for participants in any lighting study. The present tutorial aims to address this complexity and how to deal with it by concisely describing the most important pathways that we currently are aware of. Such awareness is important both in contemplating the design and methodology of a study and in interpreting results from other studies and generalizing them to a particular application or light design. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…For example, natural light has been identified as the preferred source of light over artificial lighting [29], and the impact of natural daylight over artificial light on behaviour, such as cognitive performance, has been explored [30]. On the brightness of light, dim environments have been found to increase creativity [31] and even reduce calorie intake [32], whereas bright environments have been shown to improve alertness and reported happiness [33], enhance concentration [34], improve adjustment to night shift work [35] and increase public self-awareness [36]. Furthermore, in a study of light and behaviour, Chiou and Cheng [37] conducted a series of experiments to examine the impact of lighting on ethical behaviour.…”

Section: Lightmentioning

confidence: 99%

The SALIENT Checklist: Gathering up the Ways in Which Built Environments Affect What We Do and How We Feel

2016

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Abstract:In recent years, behavioural science has emerged as an additional tool to explore the impact of built environments on behaviour and wellbeing. Recognising the potential for further research in this field, we have sought to better understand how built environments affect what we do, as well as how they make us feel. We began this process through a review of the behavioural science literature, and have brought together evidence to develop a checklist for design with wellbeing in mind. In this paper, we present Sound, Air, Light, Image, Ergonomics and Tint as the mnemonic SALIENT, which forms a checklist. We outline an example where elements of the checklist have been applied in a real-world setting to examine subjective wellbeing (SWB). We present this example to illustrate how the SALIENT checklist could potentially be applied more extensively to measure the impact of built environments on wellbeing.

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In the spotlight: Brightness increases self-awareness and reflective self-regulation

Cited by 49 publications

References 55 publications

Can Lighting Influence Self-Disclosure?

Can Lighting Influence Self-Disclosure?

Tutorial: Theoretical Considerations When Planning Research on Human Factors in Lighting

The SALIENT Checklist: Gathering up the Ways in Which Built Environments Affect What We Do and How We Feel

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