Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots: Gender and Visual Psychology

Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots: Gender and Visual Psychology
ISBN-10
1846947081
ISBN-13
9781846947087
Category
Design
Pages
237
Language
English
Published
2014-11-28
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Author
Gloria Moss

Description

Discover how men and women perceive the world differently and why they won't agree on the colour or shape of the sofa!

Other editions

Similar books

  • The Philosophy of Lines: From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace
    By Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

    Based on this assumption, the book describes the “philosophy of lines” in art, architecture, and science. The book compares Western and Eastern traditions.

  • Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds
    By Cordelia Fine

    ... Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love,15 Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps,16 Why Men Don't Iron,17 and even Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots.18 (Straight lines are very unwelcoming, I find.) ...

  • Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
    By Cordelia Fine

    “Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we’ve heard Testosterone rex’s last roar.” —Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe ...

  • Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
    By Gina Rippon

    "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as The Gendered Brain by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage Publihging, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019."--Title page verso.

  • Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality: A Services Marketing and Management Perspective
    By Erdogan Koc

    This book takes a research-based approach critically reviewing seminal cultural theories and evaluating how these influence employee and customer behaviour in service encounters, marketing, and management processes and activities.

  • Personality, Design and Marketing: Matching Design to Customer Personal Preferences
    By Gloria Moss

    Holly Buchanan is a popular speaker, consultant and the author of Selling Financial Services to Women – What Men Need to Know ... (2012) (both Palgrave Macmillan) and Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots (2014, Psyche).

  • Semiotics: The Basics
    By Daniel Chandler

    Moss, Gloria (2014) Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots. Winchester: Psyche Books. Murphy, Peter F. (2001) Studs, Tools and the Family Jewels. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Needham, Rodney (ed.) ...

  • Personal Branding For Dummies
    By Susan Chritton

    Kelly Welch, a Career Branding Strategist at YES Career Services, is a featured contributor to this chapter. Kelly wrote a case study called "The Story of Daniel Perlino” (which you can read in the next section) so that you have ...

  • Testosteron Rex: mituri despre sex, știință și societate
    By Cordelia Fine

    ... De ce bărbaţii nu calcă rufe [Why Men Don't Iron] și chiar De ce bărbaţilor le plac dungile și femeilor bulinele [Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots] . (Dungile chiar sunt foarte neatrăgătoare, după mine.) ...

  • Testosterona rex: Mitos sobre sexo, ciencia y sociedad
    By Cordelia Fine

    ... necesitan amor,15 Por qué los hombres no escuchan y las mujeres no entienden los mapas,16 Why Men Don't Iron [Por qué los hombres no planchan]17 e incluso Why Men like Straight Lines and Women like Polka Dots [Por qué a los hombres les.