Clay Shirky – Rescuing The Reporters:
wanted to see how much newspaper content was what Alex Jones calls the iron core of news — reporters going after facts — and how much was “other stuff” — opinion columns, sports, astrology, weather, comics, everything that was neither a hard news story or an ad. The paper I used was my old hometown paper, the Columbia Daily Tribune. It’s is a classic metro daily and pretty good paper for a town of 100,000, because The Missourian, the…
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Things moving left to right are perceived as having greater power. Including people:
om Psyblog: Research finds that people or objects moving from left to right are perceived as having greater power (Maass et al., 2007): Soccer goals are rated as stronger, faster, even more beautiful when the movement of the scorer is from left to right, rather than right to left. Film violence seems more aggressive, more painful and more shocking when the punch is delivered from left to right, compared with right to left. Cars in an advert are rated as…
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Is a prostitute more likely to have sex with a police officer than to get arrested by one?
prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to get arrested by one." It's a quote from "Freakonomics" author Steven Levitt's research paper about street prostitution in Chicago. You can download it here. Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways…
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Bill Mechanic’s speech about the future of indies at the Independent Film & Television Production Conference:
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Do women prefer men who are attached?
verything was the same across all participants, except whether their ideal mate was already attached or not," says Burkley. The most striking result was in the responses of single women. Offered a single man, 59 per cent were interested in pursuing a relationship. But when he was attached, 90 per cent said they were up for the chase. Men were keenest on pursuing new mates, but weren't bothered whether their target was already attached or not. via newscientist.com Join over…
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Side-effects from placebos can be drug specific:
fascinating study just published in the medical journal Pain examined the side-effects reported by patients taking placebos in clinical trials to test migraine drugs. It found that side-effects from placebo were almost as common as from the actual drug, but most interestingly, were specific to side-effects you would expected from the comparison medication. In other words, the side-effects you get from a sugar pill in a study on anticonvulsant drugs closely resemble side-effects you get from anticonvulsants and are…
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Sold-out Products Influence Consumer Choice:
empty store shelf tempts shoppers to buy the next best thing, according to a new study from the University of Alberta. "Sold-out products create a sense of immediacy for customers; they feel that if one product is gone, the next item could also sell out," said Paul Messinger, a professor at the U of A's School of Business who studied the sale of numerous items including ski passes and wine. "Our research shows there's also an information cascade, where…
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Key To Subliminal Messaging Is To Keep It Negative, Study Shows:
a sciencedaily.com Subliminal messaging is most effective when the message being conveyed is negative, according to new research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Subliminal images – in other words, images shown so briefly that the viewer does not consciously 'see' them – have long been the subject of controversy, particularly in the area of advertising. Previous studies have already hinted that people can unconsciously pick up on subliminal information intended to provoke an emotional response, but limitations in the design of…
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