Archive for the 'Behavior' Category
Part of the lag between my recent posts has been my recent move back to the U.S. after a year and a half in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I wanted to be a flaneur in a cheap, hip city that would let me enact my Gertrude Stein dreams while was still young, childless, and relatively untethered [...]
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Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Prague, telecommuting
A great new study was recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology about the relationship between living abroad and creativity. There’s now abundant evidence to add to what generations of expats have known all along: living in a foreign environment, or in a multicultural experience, mitigates creativity. Interestingly, this increased creativity doesn’t [...]
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Tags: abroad, creativity, Language, psychology, travel
Online dating doesn’t work. But this has implications even if you’re not on eharmony.com. The sexily-titled “People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating With Virtual Dates,” published late last year in the Journal of Interactive Marketing, provides some clues. We can’t just match people with each other the way we’d match people with static products, [...]
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Tags: dating, prediction, psychology, relationships
I was cleaning out my Bloglines account of unread articles–I’m convinced that having 22 unread emails, 117 articles pegged for immediate reading and 3,209 unread posts cannot be good for you or your anxiety levels–and came across one on the pros of having shorter blog posts.
I get that the blog post is short. I get [...]
Filed under: Behavior, Technology | 1 Comment
Tags: attention, productivity
Findings from a few recently-published academic papers (email me if you want the specifics):
Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, or SNS, can impact self-perception in ways not unlike that of the media influencing celebrities, creating an odd blend of narcissism and insecurity. Publicly displaying of a few areas of one’s life (a theme song [...]
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Tags: Facebook, MySpace, personality, psychology, SNS, social
I’m in the process of moving to another apartment in Buenos Aires (I leave tonight!), and getting ready to spend a few weeks in Portland, Ore. (I leave Thursday!) I love these moments when I get to step back and look at everything I’ve collected and minimalize the crap. No matter how you try to [...]
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Tags: choices, decisions, psychology
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Photo credit: Fran Lebowitz.I like to write about behavior, culture, and technology.
