-
Prosocial Media Linked With Empathy Across Cultures
Media and video games that portray cooperation and caring have a positive influence on behavior, a cross-cultural study shows.
-
Adventures in Experimenting On Toddlers
The Wall Street Journal: The Gopnik lab is rejoicing. My student Caren Walker and I have just published a paper in the well known journal Psychological Science. Usually when I write about scientific papers here
-
Make Time for Awe
The Atlantic: Jason Silva is a self-described epiphany junkie. He recently enthused to me about how some movies, for example, manage to capture attention and create a complete, immersive transformation for the viewer. In his
-
Exploring the Space-Time Continuum…in the Mind
We often use words related to space to talk about time, describing the order of events in terms of “moving forward,” “looking back,” “thinking ahead,” and “lagging behind.” In fact, research suggests that people typically
-
Le sexe dans la pub? Les femmes disent non, sauf pour des marques de luxe (Sex in advertising? Women say no, except for luxury brands)
Slate: Le sexe vend, beaucoup. Mais le sexe dans la pub ne plaît pas à tout le monde, particulièrement pas aux femmes qui perçoivent ces pubs comme dégradantes, voire insultantes. Néanmoins, ce sentiment de répulsion
-
Increasing Personal Savings, the Groundhog Day Way
Thinking about time as a cycle of recurring experiences may help us to put more money away into our savings.