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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Environmental Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Social networks facilitate public information sharing.
  • Previous research on lighting and self-disclosure in counseling yielded mixed results.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of environmental lighting on willingness and actual self-disclosure.
  • To clarify conflicting findings in existing literature regarding lighting and personal information sharing.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted to assess self-disclosure.
  • Experiment 1 measured willingness to disclose personal information.
  • Experiment 2 measured actual self-disclosure on topics including social issues, body, money, work, and personality.

Main Results:

  • No significant effect of ambient room lighting conditions was found on self-disclosure in either experiment.
  • Subtle environmental lighting manipulations did not influence reported willingness or actual disclosure.

Conclusions:

  • Results suggest caution against over-interpreting subtle environmental effects on behavior.
  • Generalization of perceptual metaphors to actual self-disclosure behavior may be unwarranted.