Posts Tagged ‘psychology’
To say that the 2016 presidential election had a profound impact on the American psyche might be an understatement.
In fact, new research suggests that for many, the experience was actually traumatic.
In a survey of roughly 800 college st... ...
Caltech researchers developed the illusion above to illustrate postdiction, a sensory phenomenon "in which a stimulus that occurs later can retroactively affect our perceptions of an earlier event." From Caltech Matters:
"Illusions are a really interesting window into the brain," says first author Noelle Stiles (PhD '15), a visitor in biology and biological engineering and ...
Sans Forgetica is a free-to-download font that supposedly helps you "remember your study notes", designed by typographer Stephen Banham and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Behavioural Business Lab. It's a remakably hostile mindhack: the letterforms are designed to be difficult to read without losing their legibility, thereby "prompting your brain to engage in ...
Now seems like a fine time to read this Scientific American article titled The Art of Lying by Theodor Schaarschmidt. According to a study conducted by UC Santa Barbara psychologist Bella M. DePaulo and referenced in the article, people make up around two stories every day. Apparently, children "initially have difficulty formulating believable ...
A German-Danish study of more than 2,500 people, published in the APA's Psychological Review, investigates the correlates of the "dark traits" in human personality ("egoism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, ******, spitefulness" and more) seeking the underlying "tendency" that they all share.
The researchers conclude that the "D-factor" that leads to all of these dysfunctional and ...
Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity seed fund. More posts by this contributor Lessons from cybersecurity exits Is Symantec getting ready to buy Splunk? As the Gartner Hype Curve goes, from the peak of inflated expectations to the trough of disillusionment, so goes the founder’s emotional ...
A new technology by MIT researchers can sense depression by analyzing the written and spoken responses by a patient. The system, pioneered by MIT’s CSAIL group, uses “a neural-network model that can be unleashed on raw text and audio data from interviews to discover speech patterns indicative of depression.” “Given a new subject, it can ...
An open observation of the fast growing social media network LinkedIn; and whether it can be a valuable tool to build your Network Marketing Business. ...
One of the most important ingredients for success is a positive mindset. A positive mindset empowers a person to take action and produce results while a negative mindset sets and holds us back from getting success. That's why it's so important to develop a positive mindset. A positive mindset will greatly boost your chance of ...
This is Your Brain, This is Your Brain on Anger: A Simple Explanation of How Our Emotional Brain Hijacks Our Better Intentions... ...