Michael Britt's latest Psychfiles links to this talk by Eli Pariser on
an adverse development on web social sites and Google:
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
Thanks for that, Mike. I hadn't realised how deep and widespread this
potential narrowing of the fi
This was a fun episode that I think students will like. A few excerpts from
This Week in Technology and from the TED talks about how our activities on the
web are related to the confirmation bias and to group polarization.
Connections also made to the difference between social norms and group
But don't take my word for it. See:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/shark-snack-photo-shark-eating-another-shark-whole-201036464.html;_ylt=AtxRDbz.pehCtylV5GGw6uas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNqbmQwM2w1BGNjb2RlA2N0LmMEcGtnAzM0YzcyZDU5LWNjYTAtM2RhMC04N2UzLTBkZjM3YjExMjQyMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHZl
I'm at the airport in Atlanta, on the floor. As I wait for the boarding call,
I find that my brain, which thought was drained by three of excitement, I find
is racing. I'm thinking of something John Zubizarreta said, "I want them
(students) to learn to take risks and accept challenges." He wa
It also takes into consideration how old you currently are.
The first one (posted by Michael) didn't do that, and it seems to me that if
I'm 59 the odds are very, very good I'll see 60, whereas if I were 25 the odds
should be worse -- more time to get into trouble!
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To answer the question directly, if you check out the theoretical psych
journals (e.g., J Theoretical & Philosophical Psych, New Ideas in Psychology),
you find a fair bit of critique. I don't agree with all of it (or even most of
it), but it is peer reviewed. Sometimes historical is critical of
Okay, please forgive the blatant attempt to get your attention from the subject
line. I actually have a question related to it. One topic that has been
mentioned lately is that the websites we visit are becoming increasingly
knowledgeable about who we are - our likes and dislikes - and are usi
