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Experiments

Knocking Down Walls in Virtual Reality Can Boost Creativity

Neil Petersen       March 28, 2018 Knocking Down Walls in Virtual Reality Can Boost Creativity2018-03-25T15:48:35+00:00     Experiments     No Comment
Creativity can be thought of as a process of breaking down walls between different ideas. Now, a team of researchers in China and the United States have taken that...
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Media Psychology

What Do Your Media Habits Say About Your Personality and Mental Health?

Neil Petersen       February 21, 2018 What Do Your Media Habits Say About Your Personality and Mental Health?2018-02-21T22:20:23+00:00     Media Psychology     No Comment
Here’s a shocking finding: going on the Internet might correlate with good mental health. And if you don’t find that shocking, you probably don’t spend enough time on the...
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Media Psychology

The Dangers of Phubbing

Neil Petersen       February 2, 2018 The Dangers of Phubbing2018-02-02T14:56:08+00:00     Media Psychology     2 Comments
“Phubbing” may be a made-up word, but the phenomenon it describes is very real. The verb to phub was originally coined as part of a marketing campaign for the...
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Media Psychology

Some Usernames Are More Trustworthy Than Others

Neil Petersen       January 17, 2018 Some Usernames Are More Trustworthy Than Others2018-01-17T13:45:55+00:00     Media Psychology     No Comment
Your choice in usernames could impact how people perceive your online persona. In particular, some usernames seem to be inherently more trustworthy than others, even when additional information about...
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Media Psychology

Why Materialists Flock to Facebook

Neil Petersen       December 26, 2017 Why Materialists Flock to Facebook2017-12-26T16:49:58+00:00     Media Psychology     No Comment
If you use social media regularly, you probably know that there there are good sides and bad sides that come with the level of hyperconnectedness that sites like Facebook...
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Media Psychology

Facebook, Narcissism and Fear of Missing Out

Neil Petersen       November 24, 2017 Facebook, Narcissism and Fear of Missing Out2017-11-21T16:16:37+00:00     Media Psychology     No Comment
Do you have a Facebook problem? If so, you’re not alone – well, as long as you’re on Facebook, anyway! Psychologists sometimes talk about “Facebook intrusion,” which is the...
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Media Psychology

The Ingredients of an Addictive Video Game

Neil Petersen       August 29, 2017 The Ingredients of an Addictive Video Game2017-08-29T14:52:08+00:00     Media Psychology     No Comment
Psychologists are still working on piecing together the details of what exactly video game addiction is. One of the open questions is how similar gaming addiction is to other...
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Media Psychology

What Do Your Selfies Say About You?

Neil Petersen       July 20, 2017 What Do Your Selfies Say About You?2017-07-20T14:26:23+00:00     Media Psychology     No Comment
Selfie takers may be revealing a lot more about themselves than they realize – at least, that’s the idea behind new research published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology....
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Child Psychology

Ebooks May Have Surprising Benefits for Toddlers

Neil Petersen       June 13, 2017 Ebooks May Have Surprising Benefits for Toddlers2017-06-13T14:14:10+00:00     Child Psychology     1 Comment
When I was looking through recently published research and came across a study titled Parent-Toddler Behavior and Language Differ When Reading Electronic and Print Picture Books, I clicked on...
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Media Psychology

Ignoring the News Makes People Care Less

Neil Petersen       April 12, 2017 Ignoring the News Makes People Care Less2017-04-11T14:47:20+00:00     Media Psychology     No Comment
With TVs, videos and online content all around us, we often find ourselves having to block out different kinds of media. After all, with the information overload that’s possible...
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