urbanscale + psychology   7

Gizmodo: Desperate Nokia Making a Tablet Too
That cringe-inducing headline really says it all, despite Nokia's earlier 800-series slates. We used to have a saying in PSYOP: "Perception *is* reality."
nokia  psyop  marketing  psychology  perkele 
april 2010 by Urbanscale
JSTOR: Ethics, Vol. 110, No. 3 (Apr., 2000), pp. 617-619
Just a note to self. Purging the psychological instrumentarium of the very concept of emotion: crudely reductionist & sociobiological in all the worst ways? or refreshingly straightforward?
psychology  humanfactors  emotions  orlackthereof 
december 2009 by Urbanscale
marginwalker.org: Real value and the nature of work
By special request. This six-year-old post on my old community site - on how we choose to allocate our time and effort in the world, and what comes of that effort - remains frighteningly relevant.
work  personal  economics  psychology  community  marginwalker 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Ever Dream This Man?
Beware: this is quite possibly viral marketing, or Blue Anting of one type or another. Nonetheless, weird and interesting.
pareidolia  psychology 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
The Gubbins Experiment: The positive vision
Trying to make the affirmative case for carfree living, and getting ensnared by anger. I can totally relate. NB: This is a different AG.
carfree  urbanism  psychology 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Timothy Egan: The Self-Service City
Rambling and disconnected, but there's the germ of an interesting idea here.
urbanism  incentives  psychology 
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Life at the Bar: Anger: Managing the amygdala hijack
A very useful definition, and still more useful advice on how to manage the situation once diagnosed.
psychology 
june 2009 by Urbanscale

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