Bedroom decor could 'create personal emotions'
Published: 17 December 2009
If a person decorates their bedroom in a certain way, using organic cotton bedding or other items of bed linen they may be able to influence the emotions of those who enter it, if a new study is to be believed.
If a person decorates their bedroom in a certain way, they may be able to influence other people's emotions and personalities, it is believed.The University of Washington's Sapna Cheryan studied how people responded to a room when it was complemented with certain items, using a computer science classroom as a basis and covering with posters of Star Trek, comic books and an assortment of videogames, according to Wired.
While men were not affected in their judgment of the subject, women felt less inclined to do it when they saw the paraphernalia, at least when compared to the neutral room used for control purposes.
Mr Cheryan acknowledged that this attitude could carry over to other rooms, perhaps through the use of bed linen and duvet covers, adding: "It's a consistent effect.
"The environment can communicate a sense of belonging, but it also communicates a sense of exclusion, or a sense that this is not a place where I would fit in."
Kayla Kromer recently made a Millennium Falcon bed, showing that the geeky side of life can successfully transfer to the room as well as a computer lab.
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