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- September 16, 2010
- 02:44 PM
- 412 views
Why Are Cell Phone Conversations So Distracting?
by John M Grohol PsyD in World of Psychology - Psych Central
We’ve all been there — sitting in a public place, and feeling like that person over there, talking on their cell phone, is so annoying. Why are they so annoying? What makes a cell phone conversation that you overhear so distracting?
Four researchers, led by Lauren Emberson (2010) from Cornell University, set to find out.
Previous research has shown that we don’t seem to be as distracted when listening to a full dialogue between two people as when we are listening to a “h........ Read more »
Emberson LL, Lupyan G, Goldstein MH, & Spivey MJ. (2010) Overheard Cell-Phone Conversations: When Less Speech Is More Distracting. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS. PMID: 20817912
- September 9, 2010
- 06:30 AM
- 437 views
An Emotional Timeline of 9/11
by John M Grohol PsyD in World of Psychology - Psych Central
As we approach the ninth anniversary of 9/11, researchers writing in Psychological Science this week analyzed 85,000 text pages sent through pagers during the 2 hours before and 18 hours after 9/11 took place. (You do remember what a pager is, don’t you?) WikiLeaks, the website in the news lately for other reasons, has made the 573,000 lines consisting of 6.4 million words freely available on its website for the past year.
What would these 85,000 pages tell us about the human emotion tha........ Read more »
Back MD, Küfner AC, & Egloff B. (2010) The Emotional Timeline of September 11, 2001. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS. PMID: 20805373
- August 30, 2010
- 08:50 AM
- 208 views
Narcissistic College Students Spend More Time on Facebook
by John M Grohol PsyD in World of Psychology - Psych Central
It probably comes as little surprise to anyone, but a small exploratory study done on 100 college students from a single university suggests that students who score higher on a test of narcissism also spent more time checking and updating their Facebook profile.
Facebook is currently the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. More than 50% of Facebook’s active users log on to Facebook in any given day, while the average user has 130 social connections (what Fac........ Read more »
Mehdizadeh S. (2010) Self-presentation 2.0: narcissism and self-esteem on Facebook. Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking_id, 13(4), 357-64.
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