If your phone is sitting silently on the table next to you at the cafe, are you paying less attention to the person you are with? A new study suggests that even when our phones aren’t actively alerting us to something, we are less connected in our face-to-face interactions with them laying there. Whether it’s […]
Mathematics Meets Psychology
Why you always seem to choose the slowest line. http://www.wired.com/2014/07/whats-up-with-the-other-line-is-always-faster/ Image credit: David Goehring
Video Games, Morality & National Security
I’m reading No Place To Hide now, and I love that Snowden “blames” #videogames for his desire to follow his moral compass and belief in the power of an individual protagonist to affect change! Embedded Link How We Learned That the Government Was Watching Us Google+: View post on Google+
Shapeshifting Furniture of the Future
“…in the future, computers aren’t going to look like computers. They’re going to be embedded in everything around us.” MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future The Transform, from M’ITs Tangible Media Group, changes shape depending upon how users interact with it. Imagine a chair that could transform from an upright rocker to a […]
Everyday Civic Hacking
I love that collaborative tech concepts are spreading to everyday civic hacking with things like open source seeds! Novel Open Source Seed Pledge aims to keep new vegetable and grain varieties free for all: http://www.news.wisc.edu/22748 Google+: View post on Google+
Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World
And what that means for psychology: http://www.psmag.com/magazines/magazine-feature-story-magazines/joe-henrich-weird-ultimatum-game-shaking-up-psychology-economics-53135/#.UyRmVFgACnQ.twitter Google+: View post on Google+
"Ironically school is passive, like TV"
Screen time isn’t just screen time. We have passive and active media, and kids who engage in games can gain workplace skills along with boasting higher well being and better jobs. http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140328041226-5973711-kids-who-play-video-games-do-better-in-their-careers Google+: View post on Google+
Are the kids OK?
If you were at my social media table at the ASTE Leadership Summit last weekend, the book I shared with you is now available as a free PDF (for non-commercial use): http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/. danah shares a much-needed, well-balanced perspective on how and why kids use social media. The differences between kids’ and adults’ expectations are also […]
Media Psychology on G+
I’ve started a collection of media psychologists and relevant resources. Know a great person or page I missed? Let me know! Google+: View post on Google+