psychology
- The Last Psychiatrist: Why Parents Hate Parenting
- I have a surprising piece of advice for parents, which I hope will be taken in the spirit it is offered: your kid doesn't want to be around you that much. No one does.
- 2010-08-11 to bestof, childrearing, children, parenting, psychology by soobrosa
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Everybody Have Fun
- What can policymakers learn from happiness research?
- 2010-07-02 to bestof, happiness, policy, psychology by soobrosa
- Jonathan Rauch: Caring for Your Introvert
- The habits and needs of a little-understood group.
- 2010-06-30 to bestof, group, psychology, sociology by soobrosa
- Meghan O’Rourke: Good Grief
- Is there a better way to be bereaved?
- 2010-06-29 to bestof, books, death, grief, loss, psychology by soobrosa
- Chadrick Lane: The Chemistry of Information Addiction
- It’s often remarked that “ignorance is bliss.” However, not knowing is stressful, which is why we strive to decrease that uncertainty whenever possible.
- 2010-06-28 to addiction, bestof, dopamine, information, psychology by soobrosa
- Julia Ioffe: Roulette Russian
- The teen-ager behind Chatroulette.
- 2010-06-28 to bestof, media, product, psychology, technology by soobrosa
- Joe Weinman: Lazy, Hazy, Crazy - The 10 Laws of Behavioral Cloudonomics
- Lazy, as in minimizing physical, cognitive, emotional and real dollar costs; hazy, as in using heuristics or rules of thumb rather than precise calculations; and crazy, or, as MIT’s Dan Ariely says in his book of the same name, “Predictably Irrational
- 2010-06-28 to bestof, business, it, product, psychology, technology by soobrosa
- danah boyd: I want my cyborg life
- I’m 31 years old. I’ve been online since I was a teen. I’ve grown up with this medium and I embrace each new device that brings me closer to being a cyborg.
- 2010-06-23 to bestof, distraction, life, online, psychology by soobrosa
- Aaron Swartz: My Life Offline
- But I never knew what life was like when things weren’t constantly being thrown at you. Until it stopped, I never knew how awful it really was.
- 2010-06-23 to bestof, distraction, flow, life, offline, psychology by soobrosa
- David Brooks: Drilling for Certainty
- There must be ways to improve the choice architecture — to help people guard against risk creep, false security, groupthink, the good-news bias and all the rest.
- 2010-06-16 to behaviour, bestof, choice, psychology, risk by soobrosa
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