psychology + society
- Addicted to Cute
- America has been flooded by a tsunami of cute–we’re drowning in puppies and kittens and bunnies and cupcakes–that is transforming marketing (the geico Gecko), automobiles (the Smart car), and movies (Up). But is the world bound to sour on all this s
- 2009-11-16 to bestof, culture, cuteness, pop, psychology, society, trend, world by bagoly
- Clive Thompson: Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
- “If someone tells you that you can influence 1,000 people,” Fowler said, “it changes your way of seeing the world.”
- 2009-09-27 to behaviour, bestof, infection, meme, network, psychology, society, statistics by soobrosa
- Drake Bennett: What you don’t know about your friends
- Our closest acquaintances are nearly strangers to us - and that might not be so bad
- 2009-08-25 to bestof, community, friendship, psychology, society by soobrosa
- Ken Rockwell: Seven Levels of Photographers
- Just because any car nut can tell you every possible performance specification of a Ferrari doesn't mean he can drive.
- 2009-07-25 to bestof, funnies, human, photography, psychology, skills, society by soobrosa
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Why are Americans fat?
- Why are we so fat?
- 2009-07-25 to bestof, business, eating, food, obesity, psychology, society by soobrosa
- Jonah Lehrer: Dont!
- The secret of self-control.
- 2009-05-30 to bestof, methodology, psychology, society by soobrosa
- Melanie Berliet: Plastic Surgery Confidential
- Cosmetic surgery is now so popular that even young, healthy, attractive women are choosing to be enhanced" in this $13 billion industry.
- 2009-04-14 to bestof, health, image, media, plastic surgery, psychology, society by soobrosa
- How the city hurts your brain
- Being in an urban environment, scientists have found, impairs our basic mental processes. Memory performance and attention spans improved by 20 percent after people spent an hour interacting with nature.
- 2009-01-07 to bestof, brain, city, psychology, society by lipi
- David Grann: The Chameleon
- The many lives of Frdric Bourdin.
- 2008-11-01 to bestof, mimicry, profile, psychology, society by soobrosa
- David G. Schuster: Neurasthenia and a Modernizing America (pdf)
- The result was neurasthenia, a culturally oriented diagnosis that attributed mental and physical symptoms to the lack of nervous energy brought on by the stresses of modern society.
- 2008-09-21 to bestof, medicine, mental, modernity, psychology, society by soobrosa
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