Research Design Connection: Standing and Performance
Finch and her colleagues assessed how standing influences reading comprehension and creativity. They report on the findings of their lab experiment: study “participants completed reading comprehension and creativity tasks while both sitting and standing. Participants self-reported their mood during the tasks and also responded to measures of expended effort and task difficulty…body position did not affect reading comprehension or creativity performance, nor did it affect perceptions of effort or [task] difficulty…Participants exhibited greater task engagement (i.e., interest, enthusiasm and alertness) and less comfort while standing rather than sitting. In sum, performance and psychological experience as related to task completion were nearly entirely uninfluenced by…standing desk use.” Study participants first stood or sat while taking a set of reading comprehension and creativity tests and then changed to the alternate position (those sitting down stood up and those standing up sat down) to complete additional reading comprehension and creativity tests. Participants, …
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