Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Groups Need Privacy Too
Just as individuals thrive when they have access to private spaces, when desired, so do groups. When individuals know that other people can’t see or hear them, and that they can’t see or hear others (which doesn’t mean they’re in a white box without windows or sound), they have a chance to do things such as mull over recent events and integrate them with previous other life experiences. When we don’t get a chance to do this sort of thing every so often, our brains start to behave like a skipping record. In a private space, we can ponder things without concern for what we look like while we do so, for example. A private space is also a great place to do distraction free work, but we can be in a space that’s distraction free but not private. For example, we might be the only person in a work …
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