Magazine - The Perfected Self - The Atlantic
yesterday by tsuomela
Though more advanced in execution, today’s electronic nudges and tweaks are identical in purpose: use what you can control to affect what you can’t. The simple elegance of this concept flips on its head Chomsky’s suggestion that behavior modification treats people as if they were no more intelligent than animals. What distinguishes our intellect from animals’ is not that we can go against our environment—most of us can’t, not in the long run—but rather that we can purposefully alter our environment to shape our behavior in ways we choose.
psychology
behavior
quantified-self
health
self-improvement
measurement
behaviorism
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yesterday by tsuomela
Is the White Working Class Coming Apart?—David Frum - The Daily Beast
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 is an important book that will have large influence. It is unfortunately not a good book—but its lack of merit in no way detracts from its importance. If anything, the book's flaws add to its power, by enhancing the book's appeal to the audience for whom it is intended. Coming Apart is an important book less because of what it says than because of what it omits
book
review
welfare
economics
politics
conservatism
ideology
class
culture
behavior
elites
elitism
power
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4 weeks ago by tsuomela
Psychologists Use Social Networking Behavior to Predict Personality Type - Technology Review
5 weeks ago by tsuomela
"It turns out, they say, that various online behaviors are a good indicator of personality type. For example, conscientious people are more likely to post asking for help such as a location or e-mail address
personality
technology
behavior
social-media
online
big-five
psychology
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5 weeks ago by tsuomela
My Experiments with Introductions
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
"This “retreating from all nearby centers” is not exactly the personality description of a great social hub. So why is it a great position for introduction-making? It’s the same reason Switzerland is a great place for international negotiations: neutrality and small size anchoring credibility, but with sufficient actual clout to enforce good behavior. If you are big or powerful, you have an agenda. If you are from the center of a community, you have an agenda."
introvert
psychology
behavior
personality
culture
social-psychology
weblog
community
weak-links
networking
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6 weeks ago by tsuomela
Extroverts, Introverts, Aspies and Codies
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Here are just a few of the ideas I’ve been mulling:
As more relationships are catalyzed online than offline, a great sorting is taking place: mixed E/I groups are separating into purer groups dominated by one type
Each trait is getting exaggerated as a result
The emphasis on collaborative creativity, creative capital and teams is disturbing the balance between E-creativity and I-creativity
Lifestyle design works out very differently for E’s and I’s
The extreme mental conditions (dubiously) associated with each type in the popular imagination, such as Asperger’s syndrome or co-dependency, are exhibiting new social phenomenology" Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/04/07/extroverts-introverts-aspies-and-codies
introvert
psychology
behavior
personality
culture
sociology
social-psychology
from delicious
As more relationships are catalyzed online than offline, a great sorting is taking place: mixed E/I groups are separating into purer groups dominated by one type
Each trait is getting exaggerated as a result
The emphasis on collaborative creativity, creative capital and teams is disturbing the balance between E-creativity and I-creativity
Lifestyle design works out very differently for E’s and I’s
The extreme mental conditions (dubiously) associated with each type in the popular imagination, such as Asperger’s syndrome or co-dependency, are exhibiting new social phenomenology" Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/04/07/extroverts-introverts-aspies-and-codies
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
10 Myths About Introverts | CarlKingdom.com :: Writer. Director. Artist.
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
"So here are a few common misconceptions about Introverts (not taken directly from the book, but based on my own life experience):"
introvert
psychology
behavior
personality
myths
shyness
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6 weeks ago by tsuomela
The World is Small and Life is Long
7 weeks ago by tsuomela
"I am not certain whether I like or dislike this emerging world. I think I am leaning towards dislike. The slogan, the world is small and life is long describes a tense and anxious world of constant social shadow-boxing. One where you must always be on, socially. A world where burning bridges is more dangerous, and open conflict becomes ever costlier, leading to less dissent and more stupidity.
It is a situation of false harmony. One where peace is less an indicator of increasing empathy and human connection, and more an indicator of increasing wariness. You never know which world your world will collide with next, with what consequences. You never know what missed opportunity or threat could decisively impact your life."
facebook
social-media
networks
social-networking
behavior
interaction
psychology
social-psychology
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It is a situation of false harmony. One where peace is less an indicator of increasing empathy and human connection, and more an indicator of increasing wariness. You never know which world your world will collide with next, with what consequences. You never know what missed opportunity or threat could decisively impact your life."
7 weeks ago by tsuomela
The Gollum Effect
7 weeks ago by tsuomela
"The concrete idea is something I call the Gollum effect. It is a process by which regular humans are Gollumized: transformed into hollow shells of their former selves, defined almost entirely by their patterns of consumption."
economics
consumerism
behavior
addiction
class
middle-class
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7 weeks ago by tsuomela
Xin - A critique of the community of inquiry framework
12 weeks ago by tsuomela
"This conceptual paper critiques the popular Community of Inquiry framework (CoI) that is widely used for studying text-based asynchronous online discussion (Garrison, Anderson,
online
culture
behavior
community
discussion
theory
communication
from delicious
12 weeks ago by tsuomela
jr conlin's ink stained banana » Welcome to the Internet
february 2012 by tsuomela
Pretty soon, you're going to be 13. It's an important year in your life, and as i'm sure you're aware, it's the year you can have an account on sites like Twitter, Gmail and Facebook. It's a point where we think that you're old enough and wise enough to do two things: act like an adult, and take a bit of advice from your geeky uncle.
TL
online
advice
children
behavior
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TL
february 2012 by tsuomela
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
february 2012 by tsuomela
Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.
psychology
lying
behavior
morality
ethics
class
income
money
socioeconomic
status
judgment
self-interest
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february 2012 by tsuomela
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - New Studies Determine Which Social Class More Likely to Behave Unethically - US National Science Foundation (NSF)
february 2012 by tsuomela
A series of studies conducted by psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Toronto in Canada reveal something the well off may not want to hear. Individuals who are relatively high in social class are more likely to engage in a variety of unethical behaviors.
psychology
lying
behavior
morality
ethics
class
income
money
from delicious
february 2012 by tsuomela
The Law of Online Sharing - Technology Review
january 2012 by tsuomela
Facebook's impending problem is that even if the company enables future pacemakers to share our every heartbeat, the company cannot automate caring—the most important part of the feedback loop that has driven the social Web's ascent. Nothing can support exponential growth for long. No matter how cleverly our friends' social output is summarized and highlighted for us, there are only so many hours in the day for us to express that we care. Today, the law of social sharing is a useful way to think about the rise of social computing, but eventually, reality will make it obsolete.
social-media
facebook
sharing
online
community
attention
behavior
psychology
technology-effects
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january 2012 by tsuomela
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
january 2012 by tsuomela
"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in. "
solitude
silence
computers
technology-effects
social
media
behavior
creativity
novelty
brainstorming
business
from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
Stumbling and Mumbling: Cakes, capitalism
january 2012 by tsuomela
"But why do we spend too much time on comfort goods and ordinary consumer spending and not enough on creative activities? One reason, says Pugno is that the latter require investment in “leisure skills” - the ability to play an instrument, garden or appreciate art. Such investment, like any other, is costly. At any point in time, therefore, we might prefer the zero-cost option of comfort goods. But this means we never acquire the skills needed to make best use of our leisure."
economics
spending
consumerism
behavior
talent
leisure
skill
from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
Overcoming Bias : Dear Young Eccentric
january 2012 by tsuomela
"Think of it this way. When some folks go out of their way to show off their defiance and rebellion, others go out of their way to publicly squash such rebellion, to assert their dominance. But if you are not overtly rebellious, you can get away with a lot of abstract idea rebellion — few folks will even notice such deviations, and fewer still will care. So, ask yourself, do you want to look like a rebel, or do you want to be a rebel?"
rebellion
weird
ideas
eccentricity
creativity
novelty
behavior
from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
Why You Should Automate Parts of Your Job to Save It - Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review
october 2011 by tsuomela
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2011/08/why-you-should-automate-parts.html
knowledge-work
knowledge
automation
business
management
work
behavior
future
from delicious
october 2011 by tsuomela
Learning to automate work « Jon Udell
october 2011 by tsuomela
"But information networks matter more than the devices we use to access them, or the applications that run on those devices. The key to the automation of knowledge work that Schrage righly prescribes isn’t learning how to use smartphones or tablets. Rather, it’s learning and then applying core principles that govern information networks. "
knowledge-work
knowledge
automation
business
management
work
behavior
future
pkm
pim
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october 2011 by tsuomela
Stumbling and Mumbling: When consultation fails
september 2011 by tsuomela
"It all hinges upon whether the answer to a question is demonstrable or not. If it is demonstrable, then an expert who knows the answer can prove that he does so by using logic or evidence, and non-experts will defer to him. Consultation will then work, simply by virtue of bringing expertise into play.
But some knowledge is non-demonstrable. The expert might be able to distinguish between Klee and Kandinsky, but he’ll find it harder to demonstrate his expertise to laymen than, say, a mathematician will be able to demonstrate that he knows the solution to an equation. And where knowledge is non-demonstrable, people might follow false experts."
expertise
consulting
collaboration
groupthink
group
behavior
psychology
crowdsourcing
But some knowledge is non-demonstrable. The expert might be able to distinguish between Klee and Kandinsky, but he’ll find it harder to demonstrate his expertise to laymen than, say, a mathematician will be able to demonstrate that he knows the solution to an equation. And where knowledge is non-demonstrable, people might follow false experts."
september 2011 by tsuomela
warm brown rice and grilled vegetables salad
september 2011 by tsuomela
"From those brief 25 hours, I received emails that said, “Don’t you know that processed food is killing Americans? How could you have posted a photo with Velveeta cheese?” or “What kind of a mother are you, leaving your child for another trip? Selfish bitch.” or “Sausage? Andouille sausage? You don’t think you’re fat enough already, you have to stuff more sausage in your mouth?” There were complaints about where I ate, how much I ate, how happy I was to be with the people I sat with, that I was bragging by listing the people with whom I had dinner. There were comments about my weight, comments about my parenting, comments about the way I spend money, comments about the farce of gluten-free, comments about my photographic skills, and comments about how often I posted on Twitter (for some, that answer was: too much). Nothing goes undiscussed as being disgusted in my online world."
online
behavior
troll
abuse
bullying
psychology
september 2011 by tsuomela
Why Don’t You? A review of ‘Making is Connecting’ | through the looking glass
september 2011 by tsuomela
"David Gauntlett’s new book, Making is Connecting, a few times recently: on my work blog, my knitting one, and on the Guardian’s Notes and Theories. It’s an interesting book worth talking about. It’s about the social meanings of creativity and 21st century maker cultures, be these makers of blogs, woolly cardigans, cupcakes, podcasts or physics-themed lolcats, and in particular the changing structures of making which surround what is sometimes called ‘social media’. "
book
review
making
culture
behavior
sharing
september 2011 by tsuomela
Winehouse, Breivik and Deadly Ideals - NYTimes.com
august 2011 by tsuomela
"But it strikes me that there is something like the exact opposite anxiety — a pathological preoccupation with norms, which I want to call hypernomia — running through her music and her published interviews. Winehouse was the victim of another kind of “losing game” (other than love). It was part of her appeal that she was always outspoken and spontaneous in her conversation, so that her published statements have the quality of an intimate diary, raw and unrectified." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/winehouse-breivik-and-deadly-ideals
anomie
norms
behavior
psychology
philosophy
scapegoat
august 2011 by tsuomela
Predicting Premeditation: Future Behavior is Seen as More Intentional than Past Behavior by Zachary Burns, Eugene Caruso, Daniel Bartels :: SSRN
august 2011 by tsuomela
"People‟s intuitions about the underlying causes of past and future actions might not be the same. In three studies, we demonstrate that people judge the same behavior as more intentional when it will be performed in the future than when it has been performed in the past. We found this temporal asymmetry in perceptions of both the strength of an individual‟s intention and the overall prevalence of intentional behavior in a population. Because of its heightened intentionality, people thought the same transgression deserved more severe punishment when it would occur in the future than when it did occur in the past. The difference in judgments of both intentionality and punishment were partly explained by the stronger emotional reactions that were elicited in response to future actions than past actions. We consider the implications of this temporal asymmetry for legal decision making and theories of attribution more generally. "
future
perception
intention
intentionality
law
temporal
explanation
behavior
social-psychology
august 2011 by tsuomela
Sharing Information Online Linked to Increased Heart Rate - Miller-McCune
july 2011 by tsuomela
" It provides evidence that people are more prone to sharing interesting content if they are experiencing either physical or emotional arousal.
This stimulation needn’t be caused by the absorbing article, sad song or snarky sketch you choose to share. It’s enough that they occur in rapid succession."
psychology
sharing
online
behavior
social-media
This stimulation needn’t be caused by the absorbing article, sad song or snarky sketch you choose to share. It’s enough that they occur in rapid succession."
july 2011 by tsuomela
Chris Hedges: The Myth of The New York Times, in Documentary Form - Film Review - Truthdig
july 2011 by tsuomela
"When you allow an institution to provide you with your identity and sense of self-worth you become an obsequious pawn, no matter how much talent you possess. You live in perpetual fear of what those in authority think of you and might do to you. This mechanism of internalized control—for you always need them more than they need you—is effective. "
media
journalism
norms
behavior
organization
institutions
self-definition
self
july 2011 by tsuomela
Stumbling and Mumbling: Ego depletion, pro-sociality
july 2011 by tsuomela
"In other words, pro-social behaviour requires self-control, but this can be depleted by other things. And one of those other things is the amount of drudge work we have to do. If it takes all our self-discipline to turn up to work and do a routine job, we’ll have less self-discipline with which to act generously."
psychology
politics
altruism
cooperation
pro-social
behavior
ego
ego-depletion
work
labor
monotony
july 2011 by tsuomela
It's Not the Technology, Stupid! Response to NYT "Twitter Trap" | HASTAC
june 2011 by tsuomela
"So, okay: "IT'S NOT THE TECHNOLOGY, STUPID!"
It is just so hard to believe how many reputable intellectuals, writers, scientists, social scientists, and even educators are willing to indulge in a specious logic that they would never allow on another topic. They like to say that the Internet makes us shallow, stupid, distracted, lonely, or, in the case of this piece by the executive editor of the New York Times, that it somehow compromises us morally and spiritually: "My own anxiety," Keller writes, "is less about the cerebrum than about the soul." I can only imagine an executive of his stature snickering with derision remembering how so-called "primitive people" said exactly the same thing about photography. "
social-media
criticism
critique
online
behavior
psychology
technology-critique
technology-effects
It is just so hard to believe how many reputable intellectuals, writers, scientists, social scientists, and even educators are willing to indulge in a specious logic that they would never allow on another topic. They like to say that the Internet makes us shallow, stupid, distracted, lonely, or, in the case of this piece by the executive editor of the New York Times, that it somehow compromises us morally and spiritually: "My own anxiety," Keller writes, "is less about the cerebrum than about the soul." I can only imagine an executive of his stature snickering with derision remembering how so-called "primitive people" said exactly the same thing about photography. "
june 2011 by tsuomela
Human Brain Limits Twitter Friends To 150 - Technology Review
may 2011 by tsuomela
"It turns out that when people start tweeting, their number of friends increases until they become overwhelmed. Beyond that saturation point, the conversations with less important contacts start to become less frequent and the tweeters begin to concentrate on the people they have the strongest links with.
So what is the saturation point? Or, in other words, how many people can tweeters maintain contact with before they get overwhelmed? The answer is between 100 and 200, just as Dunbar predicts. "
communication
networks
dunbar-number
social
behavior
sociology
neurology
brain
evolution
twitter
social-media
So what is the saturation point? Or, in other words, how many people can tweeters maintain contact with before they get overwhelmed? The answer is between 100 and 200, just as Dunbar predicts. "
may 2011 by tsuomela
embodied organizations « orgtheory.net
april 2011 by tsuomela
"Organizations are, in addition to being actors in their own right, physical places. People interact, live, and experience life in organizational settings, whether it be their workplaces, churches, or voluntary associations. Much of our bodily experiences is structured by organizations. Surprisingly, the physical/bodily experience of organizations doesn’t get much attention in organizational theory. Feminist perspectives are a big exception, of course. Philip Selznick also emphasized how ideals were “embodied in action” through organizations in his distinct brand of pragmatism. But most organizational theory fails to take into account the physical experience of organizations."
materiality
organizations
sociology
behavior
embodied
april 2011 by tsuomela
Lance Mannion: The Puritan on Facebook or Help me self-aggrandize by following me on Twitter
april 2011 by tsuomela
"You can see how a contemporary Puritan---like me. I’m one, I confess.---would be wary of Twitter and Facebook. What’s the benefit here, we ask ourselves, meaning, In what way will this make me a better person? How is Twittering and Facebooking self-improving as opposed to self-indulging? It might be ok if I’m using social networking to be social, if I’m using it to connect with people, to share information (of the self-improving, non-self-indulging kind), to learn about what other people are thinking and doing and what’s going on in the world outside my own garden and get ideas on how I can help make it a better place. But what if all I’m doing is using it to show off? What if I’m just aggrandizing myself by showing off?"
twitter
social-media
behavior
puritan
april 2011 by tsuomela
philosiology: Living with Your Philosopher: Incessant Questioning
april 2011 by tsuomela
"In academia, philosophers question everything for their living. Remember, analytic philosophers love to look for inconsistencies in arguments and continental philosophers love to relate everything historically. When philosophers take someone seriously (aka they think you are great), they will question you
philosophy
behavior
questions
humor
april 2011 by tsuomela
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
april 2011 by tsuomela
"Most people won't, unfortunately. Which means that as the world becomes more addictive, the two senses in which one can live a normal life will be driven ever further apart. One sense of "normal" is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best."
addiction
health
behavior
future
psychology
technology
culture
acceleration
april 2011 by tsuomela
Daniel Nettle's personal page
april 2011 by tsuomela
Author of Personality:what makes you the way you are... "I am a behavioural scientist interested in applying ideas from ecology and evolution to human behaviour. I have worked on such topics as cooperation, reproductive decisions, parenting and families, personality, and health. My research uses theoretical modelling, as well as behavioural data from several countries, especially the UK. I"
people
evolution
biology
behavior
human
modeling
psychology
april 2011 by tsuomela
How to tweet bile without alienating people. Or making 13-year-old girls cry | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian
april 2011 by tsuomela
"God knows I enjoy a helping of bile. But only when it's crafted with flair. One of the most disappointing things about the slew of online Rebecca Black abuse is the sheer poverty of language involved. If you are complaining about a banal pop song but can't muster a more inventive way to express yourself than typing "OMFG BITCH YOU SUCK", then you really ought to consider folding your laptop shut and sitting quietly in the corner until that fallow lifespan of yours eventually reaches its conclusion."
internet
behavior
bullying
crowds
groupthink
twitter
fads
memes
april 2011 by tsuomela
Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn't as fun as it sounds. - By Heather Chaplin - Slate Magazine
april 2011 by tsuomela
"In a gamified world, corporations don't have to reward us for our business by offering better service or lower prices. Rather, they can just set up a game structure that makes us feel as if we're being rewarded. McGonigal goes even further. She talks about an "engagement economy … that works by motivating and rewarding participants with intrinsic rewards, and not more lucrative compensation." This economy doesn't rely on cash—rather, it pays participants with points, peer recognition, and their names on leader boards. It's hard to tell if this is fairy-tale thinking or an evil plot."
games
gaming
serious-games
social
behavior
marketing
advertising
april 2011 by tsuomela
Social Media: From Meaning to Presence | Savage Minds
march 2011 by tsuomela
"Rather than tracing the paths of particular forms (messaging to wikis and blogging to tag-clouds and aggregators), or looking at convergence and transmediation, or the popular proliferation of geek culture, as I do elsewhere, I want to talk more generally about three trends in “social media” that were significant in my mid-1990s fieldwork and have only become more pronounced since."... 3 components - short form, configurability/control, and presence casting.
anthropology
online
internet
behavior
social-media
communication
genre
form
march 2011 by tsuomela
A simple model of disagreement among economists — Crooked Timber
march 2011 by tsuomela
"So what does this predict? Like Blinder’s aphorism, it suggests that we will observe a broad empirical correlation between (a) the extent of disagreement among economists, and (b) the involvement of economists in political disputes. ‘Eat your greens’ propositions that are popular among economists, but more or less equally uncongenial to all political actors in a given system will, as in Blinder’s formulation, be systematically ignored. But economists’ influence will not be particularly high when they disagree with each other, since different economists arguing for different sides of the political debate will at least partially cancel each other out. It will be far higher on those rare and fleeting occasions when economists unite in favor of the one or the other side actively participating in a political debate."
economics
model
behavior
incentives
politics
march 2011 by tsuomela
PsycNET - Display Record
march 2011 by tsuomela
"For centuries economists and psychologists have argued that the morality of moral emotions lies in the fact that they stimulate prosocial behavior and benefit others in a person's social environment. Many studies have shown that guilt, arguably the most exemplary moral emotion, indeed motivates prosocial behavior in dyadic social dilemma situations. When multiple persons are involved, however, the moral and prosocial nature of this emotion can be questioned. The present article shows how guilt can have beneficial effects for the victim of one's actions but also disadvantageous effects for other people in the social environment. A series of experiments, with various emotion inductions and dependent measures, all reveal that guilt motivates prosocial behavior toward the victim at the expense of others around—but not at the expense of oneself. These findings illustrate that a thorough understanding of the functioning of emotions is necessary to understand their moral nature."
psychology
morality
behavior
guilt
emotion
prosocial
march 2011 by tsuomela
symmetry - June/July 2007 - Talk and Chalk
march 2011 by tsuomela
"In the office world, there’s no question whiteboards have taken over. Schools, as well, have been switching to whiteboards, partly to prevent chalk dust from damaging the computers now common in classrooms. Overall, marker boards outsell blackboards by three to one, according to Pat Donohue, owner of Aywon, a company in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, that manufactures and sells both. Even the academic sector has gone largely to whiteboards. "Our biggest market for chalkboards," Donohue says, "is restaurants that want chalkboard menus."
But with their smelly markers and spotty erasing performance, whiteboards have won few converts among theorists at SLAC. When the group needs new boards— apparently they do wear out after 40 years—it still requisitions blackboards. "
physics
science
culture
behavior
But with their smelly markers and spotty erasing performance, whiteboards have won few converts among theorists at SLAC. When the group needs new boards— apparently they do wear out after 40 years—it still requisitions blackboards. "
march 2011 by tsuomela
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience
february 2011 by tsuomela
"Social media technologies collapse multiple audiences into single contexts, making it difficult for people to use the same techniques online that they do to handle multiplicity in face-to-face conversation. This article investigates how content producers navigate ‘imagined audiences’ on Twitter. We talked with participants who have different types of followings to understand their techniques, including targeting different audiences, concealing subjects, and maintaining authenticity. Some techniques of audience management resemble the practices of ‘micro-celebrity’ and personal branding, both strategic self-commodification. Our model of the networked audience assumes a many-to-many communication through which individuals conceptualize an imagined audience evoked through their tweets. "
social-media
twitter
facebook
research
audience
perception
behavior
online
february 2011 by tsuomela
The Disclosure–Intimacy Link in Computer-Mediated Communication: An Attributional Extension of the Hyperpersonal Model - Jiang - 2010 - Human Communication Research - Wiley Online Library
february 2011 by tsuomela
"The present research investigated whether the attribution process through which people explain self-disclosures differs in text-based computer-mediated interactions versus face to face, and whether differences in causal attributions account for the increased intimacy frequently observed in mediated communication. In the experiment participants were randomly assigned to a face-to-face or computer-mediated interaction with a confederate who made either high- or low-intimacy self-disclosures. Results indicated that computer-mediated interactions intensified the association between disclosure and intimacy relative to face-to-face interactions, and this intensification effect was fully mediated by increased interpersonal (relationship) attributions observed in the computer-mediated condition."
communication
online
twitter
social-media
attribution
intimacy
self-disclosure
sharing
behavior
experiments
february 2011 by tsuomela
"Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences
january 2011 by tsuomela
"In six experiments we show that initial valuations of familiar products and simple hedonic experiences are strongly influenced by arbitrary "anchors" (sometimes derived from a person's social security number). Because subsequent valuations are also coherent with respect to salient differences in perceived quality or quantity of these products and experiences, the entire pattern of valuations can easily create an illusion of order, as if it is being generated by stable underlying preferences. The experiments show that this combination of coherent arbitrariness (1) cannot be interpreted as a rational response to information, (2) does not decrease as a result of experience with a good, (3) is not necessarily reduced by market forces, and (4) is not unique to cash prices. The results imply that demand curves estimated from market data need not reveal true consumer preferences, in any normatively significant sense of the term."
economics
behavior
psychology
bias
demand
anchoring
rational-markets
january 2011 by tsuomela
Michael Gerson - Two good arguments for civility - and passion - in politics
january 2011 by tsuomela
"Yet doubt becomes destructive as it reaches the center of a belief and becomes its substitute. A systematic skepticism may keep us from bothering our neighbor. It does not motivate a passion to fight for his or her dignity and rights. How do ambiguity and agnosticism result in dreams of justice, in altruism and honor, in sacrifices for the common good? What great reformers of American history can be explained by their elegant ambivalence? "
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january 2011 by tsuomela
MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy - Institute for Government
january 2011 by tsuomela
"New insights from science and behaviour change could lead to significantly improved outcomes, and at a lower cost, than the way many conventional policy tools are used.
MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy (PDF, 1.6MB) was published by the Institute for Government and the Cabinet Office on 2 March. The report explores how behaviour change theory can help meet current policy challenges,"
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MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy (PDF, 1.6MB) was published by the Institute for Government and the Cabinet Office on 2 March. The report explores how behaviour change theory can help meet current policy challenges,"
january 2011 by tsuomela
Oh, look, that’s there | Book of Trogool
january 2011 by tsuomela
Presentation and paper by Dorothea Salo - "Who Owns Our Work?"
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norms
libraries
collection
information-science
january 2011 by tsuomela
The uncomfortable truth about mind control: Is free will simply a myth? - Features, Health
january 2011 by tsuomela
Interview with participant in Milgram obedience experiment and commentary on history of experiment.
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history
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behavior
obedience
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january 2011 by tsuomela
If You Didn't Blog It, It Didn't Happen - Anil Dash
january 2011 by tsuomela
More on Twitter v. blogging
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january 2011 by tsuomela
Clive Thompson on How Tweets and Texts Nurture In-Depth Analysis | Magazine
january 2011 by tsuomela
"The popularity of this endless fire hose of teensy utterances means we’ve lost our appetite for consuming—and creating—slower, reasoned contemplation. Right?
I’m not so sure. In fact, I think something much more complex and interesting is happening: The torrent of short-form thinking is actually a catalyst for more long-form meditation."
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I’m not so sure. In fact, I think something much more complex and interesting is happening: The torrent of short-form thinking is actually a catalyst for more long-form meditation."
january 2011 by tsuomela
The Oil Drum | Applying Time to Energy Analysis
december 2010 by tsuomela
"Is a BTU today worth more or less than a BTU ten years from now? It's seemingly an easy question. A BTU will heat one pound of water one degree whether its 2010, 2020, or 2100. And, in a world of entropy where the easiest and best quality energy sources (generally) get used up first, one unit of energy should increase in value over time, as its ability to accomplish work becomes more valuable to society as time progresses. However this is solely a physical perspective, one that ignores biology of time preference. Once humans with finite lifespans and cultures with sunk costs enter the picture, a BTU today, behaviorally, becomes worth more than one in the future. This fact has pretty big implications for biophysical analysis of energy alternatives, which will be explored below."
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behavior
environment
december 2010 by tsuomela
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