Two things- One, is everyone else getting a large blank space at the top of their tips posts? Second- I'm appalled at my spelling of "appauled". :) Tim
From: Tim Shearon [mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 1:43 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology Carol As an experiment I once did a google search for something I'd never searched for before and never usually buy. I think it was something like toothpaste for sensitive teeth. I had a separate tab open to facebook. When I went back to the FB tab it was still showing the same ads as before (that was maybe 5 seconds). I clicked on a link for a video (a further 5 seconds or so) and it opened as a pop-up but said the video had been removed so I closed it- (now we are up to maybe 20 seconds since the search. The ads had changed and included. . . "Sensodyne". I know they had adjusted my ads within a half minute. I was both impressed and somewhat appauled. Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chairperson, Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu<mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu> teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker From: Carol DeVolder [mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 12:24 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology Something I find most disconcerting is how products I've looked at online (e.g., using a company's website) end up showing up on Facebook as specific suggestions. I understand how gmail puts ads across the top and sides of the page, but the connection between looking at a product without the "help" of Facebook (I may not even have it open at the time) and how the product ends up on the side of my page is beyond me. Kind of scary. This article (which I may have gotten from an old TIPS post) is a fascinating read. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=0 Carol On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Tim Shearon <tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu<mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu>> wrote: Ken, and others The algorithms Google uses are proprietary and secret but it's pretty clear they are snooping our searches (among other things). Clearly it's not just search history on the computer but also between the different search engines as the answers I get, Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. are quite qualitatively different. I don't know if that results in some sort of digital psychodynamics. :) (Sorry if I've repeated something already said. I'm reviewing files today and distracted) Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chairperson, Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu<mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu> teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com<mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443341&n=T&l=tips&o=29811 or send a blank email to leave-29811-177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-29811-177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> -- Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 563-333-6482 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu<mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b177a&n=T&l=tips&o=29813 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-29813-13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b1...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-29813-13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b1...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu<mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b177a&n=T&l=tips&o=29815 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-29815-13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b1...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-29815-13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b1...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=29816 or send a blank email to leave-29816-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
