I write a newsletter called Minding Design on research to help you design great products, spaces, and experiences.
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Research papers
Experience in environments
Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour
Impacts of Dynamic LED Lighting on the Well-Being and Experience of Office Occupants
IEQ Applications: Human Performance and Productivity in Buildings
Living labs: Measuring human experience in the built environment
Well Living Lab: A new tool for measuring the human experience in the built environment
Cognitive science
Relational labeling unlocks inert knowledge
Can a relational mindset boost analogical retrieval?
Metaphor: Bridging embodiment to abstraction
Well‐Hidden Regularities: Abstract Uses of in and on Retain an Aspect of Their Spatial Meaning
The specificity of the labeling effect on memory: what kinds of labels improve retrieval?
Relational labels: A simple way to improve the likelihood of relational retrieval
Making sense of the abstract uses of the prepositions in and on
Relational words have high metaphoric potential
Relational labels can improve relational retrieval
Representational Form and Metaphorical Word Use
Learning the structure of a mathematical group
Aesthetics
Behavioural and Neural Responses to Facial Disfigurement
More Than Skin Deep: Judgments of Individuals With Facial Disfigurement
For a popular audience
From 2016 to 2019, I was a digital associate editor at the Psychonomic Society, where I translated scientific research into articles accessible to a general audience.
Three creativities in the wild
God is human-like—but for how long?
Thomas the loop engine: Learning to program computers with a toy train
Thinking about thinking: The when and where and why
Automatic detection of automatic response generators: How to improve data quality in online research
Talent or 10,000 hours? Good seeing makes for good drawing
Being fooled (or not) by Hyperrealistic masks: When “Five blimps” can reveal the Dark Knight
Nine bets on replicability that you will win everywhere
Say it with a face without a mouth emoji
Beyond Academia: a digital “event” made up of 10 different pieces summarizing 11 interviews with experimental psychologists and cognitive scientist who are pursuing careers outside of academia
When too much inhibition freezes ducks and bunnies into their perceptual place
Opening the door to distraction: The open office effect