Feb
21
2009
Is difficult better? Study reveals we tend to ignore simple items while pursuing goals
Also from the article: “The authors suggest that when we have goals, we need to be careful as we consider just how useful certain actions and products will be in helping us meet those goals – and that difficult is not necessarily better.” – this explains lots of failures, doesn’t it?
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Feb
21
2009
How we think before we speak: Making sense of sentences
Important research result – especially for people teaching/learning languages and communication experts!
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Feb
20
2009
The Psychologist on stigma, statistics and S&M
Splendid comment to yesterday’s news on social media increasing social isolation. Showing how you can make “news” out of everything by changing data or choosing the one to expose… As @SignalPatterns commented on Twitter: “Many people cling to correlations and neglect causality”. And the result is: “as if” science
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Feb
19
2009
Here areFour Free Sites to Share Your Music On Twitter [via feedly/ makeuseof.com]. My favourite Grooveshark mentioned as the first one there!
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