Indoor Lighting + Human Moods (and ‘social behavior’)

A literature review. Includes:

. . . a large group of the researchers are believed that the lighting conditions can effects on personal space requirements. Leslie Adams and David Zuckerman [6] demonstrated that a reduction in lighting and a decrease in room size have similar effects on interpersonal space requirements. They selected 28 female students in their experimental and these students were measured under both bright and dark conditions by using stop- distance technique. Interpersonal closeness was found to cause significantly less discomfort under high illumination than it did in relative darkness.

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. . . lighting and using different colours in residential and commercial buildings can play an important role in the entertainments, business and many other related fields. In matter of fact, these two elements have highly effect on customer’s emotional states, preferences and behavioural intentions [9]. For example, designing hotels is one of the mentioned subcategories which can present the interior light effects on human mood and social behaviours. The study of lighting in hotel design shows that there is a positive relationship between pleasure and preference.

Bottom line: There’s a lot more going on when an electrical contractor does a lighting installation — or redesigns it at the customer’s request (usually to save money) — than just plugging in equipment and wires.

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