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ReviewCommunications psychology2024

Behavioural determinants of physiologically-relevant light exposure.

Anna M Biller, Priji Balakrishnan, Manuel Spitschan

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Review in Communications psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  12. Physiologically-relevant light exposure and light behaviour in Switzerland and Malaysia.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026
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  16. Circadian-informed modeling predicts regional variation in obesity and stroke outcomes under different permanent US time policies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anna M BillerDepartment Health and Sport Sciences, Chronobiology & Health, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. anna.biller@tum.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-8838
Priji BalakrishnanLaboratory of Architecture and Intelligent Living (AIL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2902-1302
Manuel SpitschanDepartment Health and Sport Sciences, Chronobiology & Health, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Light exposure triggers a range of physiological and behavioural responses that can improve and challenge health and well-being. Insights from laboratory studies have recently culminated in standards and guidelines for measuring and assessing healthy light exposure, and recommendations for healthy light levels. Implicit to laboratory paradigms is a simplistic input-output relationship between light and its effects on physiology. This simplified approach ignores that humans actively shape their light exposure through behaviour. This article presents a novel framework that conceptualises light exposure as an individual behaviour to meet specific, person-based needs. Key to healthy light exposure is shaping behaviour, beyond shaping technology.

Identifiers

PMID39614105
PMCPMC11607403

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