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Contrary to the well-known expression "tidy desk - tidy mind a sign of" scientists believe that people with the "chaos" in the workplace slopes generate more effective and creative ideas than neat pedants-chistyuli.

Employees of the University of Minnesota conducted an experiment in which volunteers had to deal with different things in the two similar offices with the same furniture, layout, view from the window, and even the amount of sunlight, only one of them was an order, and the other - a real mess.

According to publications in the journal «Psychological Science», received the following interesting results: the volunteers, who were in the "neat" office, tended to be generous (more willing to donate money to charity), chose a healthier treats (apple instead of chocolate), but significantly inferior to the group of "slut" in solving creative problems.



"The situation has a huge impact on the way of thinking and behavior. On the basis of these data can be efficiently organize the space of offices and working offices, for example, in the neat surroundings of people will carefully fill out complex financial documents, and if required flight of thought, it is better to move to a room with a light disorder ", - said the psychologist Kathleen Vos.

According to recent studies, this pattern works not only for offices but also for apartments, cars and even personal pages on social networks.

Kathleen says: "Do you have a desire for order or not - the environment somehow affects you, and our research shows exactly how».

via factroom.ru