Re: [tips] A Request
Thanks Tim for the recommendation on Mobile Usability - I bought it. I'm currently reading Don't Make Me Think! which is about web usability. Good connections to Gestalt principles of organization. Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Feb 8, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Tim Shearon tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu wrote: Michael Not to mention the lack of impulse control. But I tend to agree that a lot of it is lack of manners and a sort of netarcissm (Is that a word yet? It should be!)- whether that's related to the anonymity of the internet or something a bit more sinister. :) At any rate, have you looked at Mobile Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Raluca Budiu? I just got my copy so I can't give it a recommendation as yet - I suspect your complaints are for the reasons you mention but perhaps there are some principles in the book that would help with the mundane aspects of the apps. I do think that most people know what to make of people who rail against the system or the man and his $1.99 app! :) The iTunes version of the book is twice (almost) the price of the Kindle- maybe we should complain! ;) Tim ___ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. Dorothy Parker From: Michael Britt [mich...@thepsychfiles.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 9:53 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] A Request Thanks Gary and Beth. I appreciate your help. Yes, there's a fair bit of social psychology in the app review world (though I was thinking more of the phenomenon of deindividuation than anal explusive, but I can go with that too ;). Another factor is just youth: many young people who buy and review apps are young and just want to lash out against the man. There's also a hint of conspiracy fears: many reviewers think that huge companies are behind every app and these companies are trying to rip them off. Most app builders are, in fact, one or two people. I suspect that young people don't understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch. They want their apps for free and they get mad at having to pay for anything or having to see advertisements. They don't understand that app builders have mouths to feed too. Ah youth... Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.commailto:mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69n=Tl=tipso=23568 or send a blank email to leave-23568-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=23633 or send a blank email to leave-23633-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] A Request
Michael, I'm sorry that some are unappreciative. The harsh comments that can be posted without any personal interaction is, in my opinion, the biggest downside to online courses as well. Since you never actually see the person, it frees them to say things they'd probably never say to your face. I know you knock yourself out to bring psychology to the world and it's just unfair that people can grumble and make nasty comments. Especially about a HUGE expenditure like $2.99!!! I'll download and comment away! Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.comwrote: Fellow tipsters, As most of you know, in addition to hosting The Psych Files podcast I sell psychology-related apps on the iTunes and Google app store. While overall the apps are well reviewed, recently I've received some negative reviews and I was wondering if any of you would be willing to help out. There are number of misperceptions regarding apps that are related to some psychology concepts that, if you will, I'd like to point out: 1. *Availability heuristic*: many of us have heard of one or two people who have received a lot of media attention from their apps and there is now a perception that app builders must be rich. Believe me, I am not getting rich from my apps. On the contrary, in a good month, the sales of my apps help to pay for the hosting costs of my website. Some game companies may be getting rich, but the average developer like me is not. 2. *Anchoring*: As you probably know, Apple has set up the app store such that we have come to expect most songs and apps to cost around 99 cents. As a result, app developers like myself must price their apps around this same very small amount of money. I've been told that my apps, most of which sell for $2.99 are too expensive. One reviewer who was hoping that my app would do things I simply cannot make it do, said that my app was a HUGE waste of money. 2.99 (about the cost of 1 slice of pizza) = huge because most apps are free or 99 cents. Apple takes 30% of every app sale, and when you add in the fee that Apple charges simply to be allowed to submit apps to their store every year, I wind up making perhaps that $1.70/app. My PsychGuide app (which consists of information about the field of psychology in general) is free. I'm not selling some silly and unreliable personality tests app. The PsycExplorer app contains psychology news from the most credible sources I can find on the web and I personally choose all the video and audio that appear in the app to make sure that they properly represent our field. Psyc Test Hero is a test review app in which I try to give students brief audio definitions and concept maps for major topics in psychology. I can't begin to count the hours I put into these apps. Any help you can provide is much appreciated. If you have a moment, please provide a review (or simply read an existing review and click Yes or No next to Was this review helpful?) for any of my apps you might be familiar with: Apple apps: http://itunes.com/apps/thepsychfiles or for the Android apps: Psyc Test Hero (tablets): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.thepsychfiles.herotab Psyc Test Hero (Android phones): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.thepsychfiles.heroiphoneV2 I appreciate your help, Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: beth.ben...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72n=Tl=tipso=23563 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-23563-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=23564 or send a blank email to leave-23564-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] A Request
The online world seems to encourage thoughtless reactions and knee-jerk responses. Whether on iTunes, blogs, social media, etc. people love having a say, but seldom take the time to control their emotionalism. It encourages the anal expulsive, just as in the early days of email and listserves. Some interesting social psych there. I hope your apps are being used and incorporated in class work. I have urged our majors to check them out, and will ask they give thoughtful feedback. Gary Fellow tipsters, As most of you know, in addition to hosting The Psych Files podcast I sell psychology-related apps on the iTunes and Google app store. While overall the apps are well reviewed, recently I've received some negative reviews and I was wondering if any of you would be willing to help out. There are number of misperceptions regarding apps that are related to some psychology concepts that, if you will, I'd like to point out: Availability heuristic: many of us have heard of one or two people who have received a lot of media attention from their apps and there is now a perception that app builders must be rich. Believe me, I am not getting rich from my apps. On the contrary, in a good month, the sales of my apps help to pay for the hosting costs of my website. Some game companies may be getting rich, but the average developer like me is not. Anchoring: As you probably know, Apple has set up the app store such that we have come to expect most songs and apps to cost around 99 cents. As a result, app developers like myself must price their apps around this same very small amount of money. I've been told that my apps, most of which sell for $2.99 are too expensive. One reviewer who was hoping that my app would do things I simply cannot make it do, said that my app was a HUGE waste of money. 2.99 (about the cost of 1 slice of pizza) = huge because most apps are free or 99 cents. Apple takes 30% of every app sale, and when you add in the fee that Apple charges simply to be allowed to submit apps to their store every year, I wind up making perhaps that $1.70/app. My PsychGuide app (which consists of information about the field of psychology in general) is free. I'm not selling some silly and unreliable personality tests app. The PsycExplorer app contains psychology news from the most credible sources I can find on the web and I personally choose all the video and audio that appear in the app to make sure that they properly represent our field. Psyc Test Hero is a test review app in which I try to give students brief audio definitions and concept maps for major topics in psychology. I can't begin to count the hours I put into these apps. Any help you can provide is much appreciated. If you have a moment, please provide a review (or simply read an existing review and click Yes or No next to Was this review helpful?) for any of my apps you might be familiar with: Apple apps: http://itunes.com/apps/thepsychfiles or for the Android apps: Psyc Test Hero (tablets): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.thepsychfiles.herotab Psyc Test Hero (Android phones): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.thepsychfiles.heroiphoneV2 I appreciate your help, Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=23563 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-23563-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=23566 or send a blank email to leave-23566-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] A Request
Thanks Gary and Beth. I appreciate your help. Yes, there's a fair bit of social psychology in the app review world (though I was thinking more of the phenomenon of deindividuation than anal explusive, but I can go with that too ;). Another factor is just youth: many young people who buy and review apps are young and just want to lash out against the man. There's also a hint of conspiracy fears: many reviewers think that huge companies are behind every app and these companies are trying to rip them off. Most app builders are, in fact, one or two people. I suspect that young people don't understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch. They want their apps for free and they get mad at having to pay for anything or having to see advertisements. They don't understand that app builders have mouths to feed too. Ah youth... Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Feb 8, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Gerald Peterson peter...@svsu.edu wrote: The online world seems to encourage thoughtless reactions and knee-jerk responses. Whether on iTunes, blogs, social media, etc. people love having a say, but seldom take the time to control their emotionalism. It encourages the anal expulsive, just as in the early days of email and listserves. Some interesting social psych there. I hope your apps are being used and incorporated in class work. I have urged our majors to check them out, and will ask they give thoughtful feedback. Gary Fellow tipsters, As most of you know, in addition to hosting The Psych Files podcast I sell psychology-related apps on the iTunes and Google app store. While overall the apps are well reviewed, recently I've received some negative reviews and I was wondering if any of you would be willing to help out. There are number of misperceptions regarding apps that are related to some psychology concepts that, if you will, I'd like to point out: Availability heuristic: many of us have heard of one or two people who have received a lot of media attention from their apps and there is now a perception that app builders must be rich. Believe me, I am not getting rich from my apps. On the contrary, in a good month, the sales of my apps help to pay for the hosting costs of my website. Some game companies may be getting rich, but the average developer like me is not. Anchoring: As you probably know, Apple has set up the app store such that we have come to expect most songs and apps to cost around 99 cents. As a result, app developers like myself must price their apps around this same very small amount of money. I've been told that my apps, most of which sell for $2.99 are too expensive. One reviewer who was hoping that my app would do things I simply cannot make it do, said that my app was a HUGE waste of money. 2.99 (about the cost of 1 slice of pizza) = huge because most apps are free or 99 cents. Apple takes 30% of every app sale, and when you add in the fee that Apple charges simply to be allowed to submit apps to their store every year, I wind up making perhaps that $1.70/app. My PsychGuide app (which consists of information about the field of psychology in general) is free. I'm not selling some silly and unreliable personality tests app. The PsycExplorer app contains psychology news from the most credible sources I can find on the web and I personally choose all the video and audio that appear in the app to make sure that they properly represent our field. Psyc Test Hero is a test review app in which I try to give students brief audio definitions and concept maps for major topics in psychology. I can't begin to count the hours I put into these apps. Any help you can provide is much appreciated. If you have a moment, please provide a review (or simply read an existing review and click Yes or No next to Was this review helpful?) for any of my apps you might be familiar with: Apple apps: http://itunes.com/apps/thepsychfiles or for the Android apps: Psyc Test Hero (tablets): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.thepsychfiles.herotab Psyc Test Hero (Android phones): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.thepsychfiles.heroiphoneV2 I appreciate your help, Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=23563 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-23563-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com. To
RE: [tips] A Request
Michael Not to mention the lack of impulse control. But I tend to agree that a lot of it is lack of manners and a sort of netarcissm (Is that a word yet? It should be!)- whether that's related to the anonymity of the internet or something a bit more sinister. :) At any rate, have you looked at Mobile Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Raluca Budiu? I just got my copy so I can't give it a recommendation as yet - I suspect your complaints are for the reasons you mention but perhaps there are some principles in the book that would help with the mundane aspects of the apps. I do think that most people know what to make of people who rail against the system or the man and his $1.99 app! :) The iTunes version of the book is twice (almost) the price of the Kindle- maybe we should complain! ;) Tim ___ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. Dorothy Parker From: Michael Britt [mich...@thepsychfiles.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 9:53 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] A Request Thanks Gary and Beth. I appreciate your help. Yes, there's a fair bit of social psychology in the app review world (though I was thinking more of the phenomenon of deindividuation than anal explusive, but I can go with that too ;). Another factor is just youth: many young people who buy and review apps are young and just want to lash out against the man. There's also a hint of conspiracy fears: many reviewers think that huge companies are behind every app and these companies are trying to rip them off. Most app builders are, in fact, one or two people. I suspect that young people don't understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch. They want their apps for free and they get mad at having to pay for anything or having to see advertisements. They don't understand that app builders have mouths to feed too. Ah youth... Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.commailto:mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=23568 or send a blank email to leave-23568-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
