Designology: How to Find Your PlaceType and Align Your Life with Design, by environmental psychologist Dr. Sally Augustin, reveals how your home influences you and how to optimally decorate to support your needs and preferences. There’s a section about color, plus insights about how we respond to patterns.
For example, most people prefer:
small-sized patterns on wallpaper moderately complicated patterns symmetrical patterns horizontal and vertical lines (vs. diagonal ones)Also, she says that we associate ascending diagonal lines with activity and descending diagonals with relaxation. Good to know!
Source:
Designology: How to Find Your PlaceType and Align Your Life with Design
Dr. Sally Augustin
Mango Publishing Group, 2019