On Using Priming in Social Media
What if you knew a psychological hack you could employ in social media that would prime your followers for action, would you take advantage of it? YouBrandInc shares some insight into just this type...
Tagged: psychology
10 Good Reasons Not to Trust Your Brain
The human ain is a marvelous tool. However, it was designed for a very different world than we currently live in. As a result, it retains many design flaws that do not serve us...
The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity
by Maria Popova”Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view . . we are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower...
The Emotional Cycle of Digital Interactivity Flow Diagram
Really good image here to take to heart in your own marketing and digital interactions: Recently, a colleague and I were discussing media and technology as being “social” or “not social”, and what this...
Is there a savant inside all of us?
Do we all have innate abilities that we just have to uncover? Savants are usually defined as people – predominantly men – who possess unusual powers of memory, calculation or artistic skill in conjunction with severe...
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The currency of the new economy is trust [video]
There’s been an explosion of collaborative consumption — web-powered sharing of cars, apartments, skills. Rachel Botsman explores the currency that makes systems like Airbnb and Taskrabbit work: trust, influence, and what she calls...
Are We in Control of Our Decisions? [video]
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when...
The 5 Cs of Connection [video]
Bobby Umar is a human teddy bear and a personal diary. People always want to hug him and share deep, personal thoughts with him, even after a first meeting. In this high-energy talk, Bobby...
True or False: Illustrations Make Information More Believable
Interesting study here, something you probably know off hand but it’s a good reminder when putting together marketing or other materials designed to persuade. Why did a visual or verbal description make a claim...
We can learn new information when we sleep
Maybe it’s time to get more sleep… Let’s get this out of the way first: no, you cannot play an audiobook under your pillow and wake up as a genius. No, we’re not a...
