Cleanliness in our surroundings is a very important thing and has been studied in the past.
"You must clean your houses………" This hadith shows the importance of cleaning not just our house but the area around us.
In the case of a workplace if an area is unclean a person will be unable to work and it will be very difficult for them to focus on the task at hand. Many people are also impressed by others cleanliness and it gives people good reputations.
"Morality and cleanliness can go hand-in-hand," said study team member Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. One test involved a game. Study participants were given $12 of real money, which they were told came from an anonymous partner in another room. They had to decide how much of it to either keep or return to their partners who, they were told, had trusted them to divide it fairly.Subjects in clean-smelling rooms gave back $5.33 on average. The others gave back just $2.81.
A second experiment asked the subjects' interest in volunteering for a Habitat for Humanity service project. On a 7-point scale, those amid the fresh scent ranked at a 4.21 interest level, on average, while those in the normal room came in at 3.29. Rather just donate money? Sure, said 22 percent of the folks in the fresh-smelling room, compared to only 6 percent in the normal room.
"Researchers have known for years that scents play an active role in reviving positive or negative experiences," Galinsky said. "Now, our research can offer more insight into the links between people's charitable actions and their surroundings."
"You must clean your houses………" This hadith shows the importance of cleaning not just our house but the area around us.
In the case of a workplace if an area is unclean a person will be unable to work and it will be very difficult for them to focus on the task at hand. Many people are also impressed by others cleanliness and it gives people good reputations.
"Morality and cleanliness can go hand-in-hand," said study team member Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. One test involved a game. Study participants were given $12 of real money, which they were told came from an anonymous partner in another room. They had to decide how much of it to either keep or return to their partners who, they were told, had trusted them to divide it fairly.Subjects in clean-smelling rooms gave back $5.33 on average. The others gave back just $2.81.
A second experiment asked the subjects' interest in volunteering for a Habitat for Humanity service project. On a 7-point scale, those amid the fresh scent ranked at a 4.21 interest level, on average, while those in the normal room came in at 3.29. Rather just donate money? Sure, said 22 percent of the folks in the fresh-smelling room, compared to only 6 percent in the normal room.
"Researchers have known for years that scents play an active role in reviving positive or negative experiences," Galinsky said. "Now, our research can offer more insight into the links between people's charitable actions and their surroundings."