你也是“星巴克气氛组”的？外媒：在咖啡馆工作学习真的高产！
Why you’re more creative in coffee shops

Pablo Picasso, JK Rowling, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Bob Dylan – whether they’re painters, singer-songwriters, philosophers or writers, people across nations and centuries have tapped into their creativity working away at a table in a café.毕加索、J·K·罗琳、波伏娃、萨特还有鲍勃·迪伦——不论是画家、创作型歌手、哲学家还是作家，来自各个国家不同世纪的人们都曾坐在咖啡馆的小桌子旁，挖掘他们的创造力。

A low-to-moderate level of ambient noise in a place like a cafeteria can actually boost your creative output. The idea is that if you’re very slightly distracted from the task at hand by ambient stimuli, it boosts your abstract thinking ability, which can lead to more creative idea generation.

ambient /ˈæmbiənt/ adj. 周围环境的；周围的

While that “Goldilocks” level of noise is different for everyone, audio stimuli in the background also help us improve decision making. Some have even dubbed “the coffee shop effect”. So, the jazz muzak, light conversation and barista banging coffee grounds out of the grinder aren’t a nuisance – they could help you come up with your next magnum opus.

nuisance /ˈnjuːsns/：麻烦事；讨厌的人（或东西）

A 2016 study backed up this idea when researchers asked participants sitting next to each other in front of a computer to do a task on the same screen. The study showed that “simply performing a task next to a person who exerts a lot of effort in a task will make you do the same”.

One of the biggest things about coffee shops is the social-facilitation effect: you go there, you see other people working and it puts you in a mood where you just naturally start working as well. Just observing them can motivate you to work harder.

Visual variety helps in “solving a problem that has an optimal solution, but requires you to think outside the box”... Coffee shops, though, generally have visual stimuli in spades. And hitting up different coffee shops each time keeps things even more varied.

People come and go. The daylight changes. The aromas of coffee and food vary. While we tend not take conscious notice of these micro-stimuli, and likely don’t overtly choose to work in this location because of them, these activities around us prod our brains to work a bit differently than at home.

Experts say these café settings can also benefit work groups who are brainstorming and building camaraderie... All those audio and visual stimuli help groups, too, compared to the dearth on Zoom or in a formal meeting room.

camaraderie /ˌkæməˈrɑːdəri/ ：友情；同事情谊

University campuses, like open-air offices, have blended elements of coffee shops into their design to prompt people to gather and collaborate, as part of a trend that’s been happening for more than a decade.