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Author	Crozier, W. Ray, 1945-
Title	Manufactured pleasures : psychological responses to design / Ray Crozier.
Imprint	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1994]
	©1994

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LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS	MESSAGE
MUSKINGUM STACKS	NK1520 .C76	AVAILABLE

Series	Studies in design and material culture
	Studies in design and material culture.
Subject	Design -- Psychological aspects.

Table of Contents
	List of figures
	Acknowledgements
	General editor's foreword
	Introduction
		Psychological responses to design	1
		Psychological explanations	5
1	Nature or culture?
		Biological explanations	14
		Preferences for landscape	16
		Personal spaces	25
2	Form and design
		Formal laws of beauty	40
		The good gestalt	48
		Complexity and familiarity: Berlyne's theory	60
3	Meaning and design
		Meaning and emotion	78
		The unconscious meanings of objects	86
		The classification of meanings	96
		Objects as symbols of the self	104
4	Function and design
		Ergonomics and the effectiveness of design	116
		Making sense of visual displays	120
		Communicating with the computer	134
5	Form, meaning, function
		Colour	143
		Multi-modal perception	154
		Form, meaning and function	159
	References	167
	Index	176

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS	MESSAGE
MUSKINGUM STACKS	NK1520 .C76	AVAILABLE

Series	Studies in design and material culture
	Studies in design and material culture.
Subject	Design -- Psychological aspects.
Description	xiii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-175) and index.
ISBN	0719038413 (hardback)
	0719038421 (pbk.)
OCLC #	28421301

Table of Contents
	List of figures
	Acknowledgements
	General editor's foreword
	Introduction
		Psychological responses to design	1
		Psychological explanations	5
1	Nature or culture?
		Biological explanations	14
		Preferences for landscape	16
		Personal spaces	25
2	Form and design
		Formal laws of beauty	40
		The good gestalt	48
		Complexity and familiarity: Berlyne's theory	60
3	Meaning and design
		Meaning and emotion	78
		The unconscious meanings of objects	86
		The classification of meanings	96
		Objects as symbols of the self	104
4	Function and design
		Ergonomics and the effectiveness of design	116
		Making sense of visual displays	120
		Communicating with the computer	134
5	Form, meaning, function
		Colour	143
		Multi-modal perception	154
		Form, meaning and function	159
	References		167
	Index		176

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