Study shows messiness leads to behavior decline

November 20, 2008 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID , AP Science Writer

(AP) -- Does a messy neighborhood make a difference on how people act? It sure does! Graffiti on the walls, trash in the street, bicycles chained to a fence, all resulted in a decline in how people behaved in a series of experiments.

Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:

Height, style of 'McMansions' are what turn off neighbors

Feb 04, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Nov 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (9) | 5

The more you take the more you lose

Dec 17, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (23) | 4

Second, more realistic estimate can reduce planning and purchasing errors

Feb 26, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View

Nov 13, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 1

Rate this story - 4.7 /5 (20 votes)

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Move the slider to adjust rank threshold, so that you can hide some of the comments.

Display comments: newest first

Alexa - Nov 20, 2008
- Rank: not rated yet
Just read the Gladwell's book, everything was described here already...

http://brothersju.../Tipping Poin.htm
- report abuse
- - Current rank
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5
Doug_Huffman - Nov 20, 2008
- Rank: not rated yet
In law enforcement it is the 'Broken Window Hypothesis'
- report abuse
- - Current rank
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5

Other News

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (AP)

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (Update)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 20, 2009 | 2.1 / 5 (25) | 23

(AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 6

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...

New insights into the life of the Maya

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (15) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...

Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essence

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Nov 20, 2009 | 4 / 5 (12) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies ...

Only tax increase can cure Illinois budget woes, study says

Other Sciences / Economics

Nov 18, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 3

Tax increases are the only solution to a widening budget crisis that a new study says has landed Illinois among the nation's most financially troubled states, a soon-to-be-released report by a team of University of Illinois ...