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- Five Emotions Invented By The Internet
- Jonah Lehrer on why easy decisions are hard: ‘the modern marketplace is a conspiracy to confuse, to trick the mind into believing that our most banal choices are actually extremely significant’
- Mark Changizi in Psychology Today: The Problem With the Web and E-Books Is That There’s No Space for Them ‘Our brain has astounding navigation capabilties, and libraries of books harness our brain’s natural capabilities’
- NYRB critique of Mad Men: The writing is extremely weak, the plotting haphazard and often preposterous, the characterizations shallow and sometimes incoherent; its attitude toward the past is glib and its self-positioning in the present is unattractively smug; the acting is, almost without exception, bland and sometimes amateurish
- Feynman on how play freed him to do research again
- Jonah Lehrer: The Virtues of Play
- Sci Am: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential
- ‘better-educated liberals and conservatives are more polarized on global warming than their less well-educated kindred’
- How Visa Predicts Divorce – The Daily Beast
- Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively
- Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience
- Alison Gopnik piece on how explicit instruction comes with a creative cost
- ‘But behind all this crude celebration of sociopathy, there is a better way to live. It’s called kindness, and friendship, and a little human decency’
- Larry Bartels graph on how “partisan beliefs strongly predict people’s opinions about discernable facts”
- Information is Beautiful survey on beliefs about consciousness
- ‘It’s as if the relentless demand of networks for me to be everywhere, all the time, were denying me access to the moment in which I am really living’
- Adam Gopnick in the New Yorker: ‘when people struggle to describe the state that the Internet puts them in they arrive at a remarkably familiar picture of disassociation and fragmentation. ‘ (aka the quintessential feelings of modernity)
- Alison Gopnick in Slate on Serry Turkle’s “Alone Together” ‘the exaggerated highly-focused attention we consider appropriate in a contemporary classroom is itself a recent cultural invention’
- Salon.com on The Shallows ‘Yes, the Internet is rotting your brain’ (the internet is structurally disposed to cognitive loading)
- What the Zeigarnik Effect tells us about beating procrastination – start anywhere
