VISIT LINK: What Makes Them Click – Applying Psychology to Understand How People Think, Work, and Relate
VISIT LINK: The Anchoring Effect: Your first perception lingers in your mind, affecting later perceptions and decisions (tags: psychology economics marketing shopping business anchor anchoring effect perception deal …)
VISIT LINK: Myth #29: People are rational People don’t make purely rational decisions based on careful analysis of cost and expected utility, despite what classical economics taught us. (tags: ux psychology usability design webdesign myth myths rational irrational …)
Carbon Copies, by Nadine Jarvis. 240 pencils made from the carbon of human cremains, as memory for those left behind. The most clever touch are the pencils getting sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils. Hope it gets real sometime. VISIT LINK: Beautiful: When I die, [...]
To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]
A 6-year-old locked in a nightmare realm of schizophrenia. She is among the rarest of the rare: a child seemingly born mentally ill. (tags: interesting health psychology children kids brain sad schizophrenia hallucinations healthcare …)
Paris Syndrome leaves Japanese tourists in shock Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday. (tags: culture japan article france japanese paris psychology tourism shock funny …)
Five Rules For Life by Gina Trapani People from all walks share what they believe are the most important rules to follow for a happy, successful, and fulfilling life. At one time or another we have all said "if I only knew then what I know now…"; now is your chance to share. These are [...]
When Good People Do Evil Article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by Philip Zimbardo on the 45th anniversary of the Milgram experiment. The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology experiments which measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure and perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment (tags: psychology [...]
The girl in the window Three years ago detectives and a social worker arrived at a dilapidated house in Plant City and made a heartbreaking discovery: A tiny girl living in a dark closet. (tags: social news article toread psychology reading children people crime family parenting society abuse feral sad child …)
We Feel Fine Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in (tags: aggregator art artistic blog blogging blogs community [...]
Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation Academy Award-winning director (The Incredibles and Ratatouille) talks about the importance, in his work, of pushing teams beyond their comfort zones, encouraging dissent, and building morale. He also explained the value of “black sheep”—restless co (tags: Animation Cinema Pixar art article business cartoons creative creativity culture design directors disney film [...]
Getting Things Done Getting Things Done (commonly abbreviated as GTD) is an action management method of The David Allen Company, and the title of the book by David Allen which describes the method. Both Getting Things Done and GTD are registered trademarks of the David Allen (tags: Allen DavidAllen Done GTD Getting ProjectManagement Things book [...]
AllLookSame China, Japan, Korea: What's the difference? Do they all look the same, or are they very distinct? Is there any truth to the stereotype, or is it ignorance? Well, find out for yourself. (tags: Game activism alllooksame asia asian china chinese fun games humor humour interesting japan japanese korea korean people psychology quiz race [...]