Study suggests ceiling height affects problem-solving skills

[mandy]

Workers have long been concerned about glass ceilings at the office. Now they can wonder if the physical ceiling is keeping them from their full mental potential.

A recent study at the University of Minnesota suggests that ceiling height affects problem-solving skills and behavior by priming concepts that encourage certain kinds of brain processing.

"Priming means a concept gets activated in a person's head," researcher Joan Meyers-Levy told LiveScience. "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."...

full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/2007...k_q3JxieAA

[accentnepal]

I knew cubicles were a bad idea ----

And that there is a reason I prefer to sit on the floor.

[jezebel]

When I'm in bed and pull the covers over my head I never get any work done. 

[BellisimaJ.]

That must be why I became iq impaired after I left home. :

[chiquita]

That is over my head.