Ceiling Height May Affect Problem-Solving Skills

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday May 9, 2007 @08:02AM from the how-low-can-you-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that a recent University of Minnesota study suggests that ceiling height may affect problem-solving skills. "'When people are in a room with a high ceiling, they activate the idea of freedom. In a low-ceilinged room, they activate more constrained, confined concepts.' Either can be good. The concept of freedom promotes information processing that encourages greater variation in the kinds of thoughts one has, said Meyers-Levy, professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota. The concept of confinement promotes more detail-oriented processing."

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Re:Interesting Thought by RiskyChris · 2007-05-09 08:14 · Score: 2, Informative

Wealth likely has a larger, more dominating influence on a growing individual than the height of any given room.
Re:fascinating by PitaBred · 2007-05-09 08:37 · Score: 2, Informative

But it does give you a damn good idea of where to start looking. Correlation doesn't PROVE causation, but it sure as hell implies it.

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