ND-0397 · 1980 · Other
Reducing the stress of high-density living: An architectural intervention.
Baum, Davis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1980.
doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.38.3.471 · Finding drafted from the abstract
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What the source reports
Long dorm corridors (40 sharing) brought more crowding problems; short or divided ones (20 sharing) did not.
Design questions and applications
Divide shared floors into groups of about 20.
Field
Homes, density and neighbourhoods
Notes and follow-up
Added from the Corpus Desk (card baum-1980-reducing-stress) on 2026-11-09. Evidence strength and translation distance not yet rated. WELL label held for review.
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Mechanism
Spatial variable
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