Perhaps it’s Adam and Eve and the quest for knowledge, the apple a symbol of new discovery, with subtle undertones of lust for ever-growing innovation. Or maybe, Isaac Newton, sitting under an apple tree when the apocryphal falling fruit prompted his theory of gravity. Or maybe, it’s another story entirely: that of Alan Turing, the shy British mathematician who is embraced as the founding father of computer science and artificial intelligence both. Via Paulo Furtado Internet use clouds millennials' ability to read body languageFCW.com (blog)In his own research, which appeared in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Mullen argues that exposure to digital media reconfigures the neural networks of young... Via Graham Jones TED Talks Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned. They complain a bit more than everyone else, and they often share their negative views and feelings when face to face with friends and acquaintances. Researchers wondered whether those behavior patterns would hold true online. 
'Our Social World' is a internet-sourced news service dedicated to puling together articles from across the world from the realms of psychology, media, PR, politics and more. 
One day in the early 1900s, a prominent American businessman named Claude C. Hopkins was approached by an old friend with an amazing new creation: a minty, frothy toothpaste named “Pepsodent” that, he promised, was going to be huge. 
Liane Dietrich, Managing Director at Rakuten LinkShare UK explores key trends in online behaviour... In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and... 
Making decisions together, men typically err one way; women another. |
Social media networks provide channels of distribution to share information and content that marketers have realized can be very powerful in speed and spread. Via Susan Bainbridge, Mariusz Leś 
TED Talks First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic. 
Despite our technological prowess and expertise, we are all still cavemen wanting to tell stories around the fire according to DraftFCB’s global digital lead Martin Talks. 
Social influence is the opposite of the weather. Unlike the weather, everyone is talking about social influence–and it seems like everyone is doing something about it. Go to our Kickstarter page to get a digital download of the full movie! " http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2140918358/good-virus-kindness-is-contagious " ...
'Our Social World' is a internet-sourced news service dedicated to puling together articles from across the world from the realms of psychology, media, PR, politics and more.
'Our Social World' is a internet-sourced news service dedicated to puling together articles from across the world from the realms of psychology, media, PR, politics and more. 
A little over 150 years ago the UK Met Office, lead by meteorology pioneer Admiral Robert Fitzroy, issued the first ever public weather forecast, published by The Times. The predictions were far... "John Kearon, "the Steve Jobs of Market Research", und sein emotionsgeladener Talk auf der zweitenTEDxRheinMain. 
As Twitter's Biz Stone says too much time spent on social media "sounds unhealthy", Channel 4 News hears from a neuroscientist, the author of the Geek Manifesto and a self-proclaimed Twitterholic. |
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