Internet Psychologist
Graham Jones 
What a lovely picture. A young gorilla mum with her three-day-old baby son. All go “aaah”. But the chances are, before I even asked you, your brain had already gone “aaah”. Yes, she is a gorilla and yes, she’d attack you if you went anywhere near her little one. But …
You can’t move for advice – some of it on this website – about using social media in your business. But two new pieces of research published co-incidentally suggest that many businesses need to revisit the mad rush for being social. The first study is about mobile advertising. It was …
On Talk Radio Europe for 30 minutes discussing the social impact of the online world
Psychologists often find strange relationships between our behaviour and our body shape. Recent research from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has discovered that profitable companies require a fat-faced leader…! According to the research, Fortune 500 companies who had leaders with wide faces made more profits than businesses where the leaders were …
On the George Galloway show talking about the good and bad effects of social media.
Steve Jobs is one of the world’s most famous followers of Buddhism – a religion not associated with consumerism and buying all the trappings of desire. His resignation from the post of CEO of Apple may signal failing health – or it may tell us he simply wants to slow …
Interviewed about the difference between men and women on social media sites.
On the Anne Diamond show as a guest again
Do you love LinkedIn? Are you a fan of Facebook? Do you adore Amazon? The chances are that online you have a brand which you are strongly connected with. And you will defend that brand with all your might – even if you don’t logically want to accept you do. …
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I’ll go an eat worms….! These are the first words of a children’s nursery rhyme, made popular in the mid-1970s by the punk band, The Boys. But it’s also the song my mother sang to me whenever I was feeling sorry for myself. …
Apparently, as I return from holiday, “mindless thugs” have overtaken London, setting fire to large parts of Croydon, rioting in Tottenham, upturning Ealing and running amok in Enfield. That’s to say nothing of the violence in Bristol, Birmingham and Liverpool overnight. The police seem helpless, politicians are rushing back from …
[box type=”alert” size=”large” style=”rounded” border=”full”] Editorial Note The study on which this blog post was based as now been revealed to be a hoax. Many media organisations, including the BBC, were taken in by the elaborate hoax. Nevertheless, the point about browser developers having an engineering rather than human user …
Dear “First Name”…..er…? We’ve all seen it – so-called “personalised” emails where the hapless Internet marketer has not set up their email software effectively, or hasn’t read the instructions on how to put together a personalised email. Or you get an email saying “Dear Subscriber” when you haven’t paid them …
The Prime Minister David Cameron is busy today answering questions from politicians trying to score points against him. His problem is he employed Andy Coulson, a former editor of the News of the World – the newspaper which illegally hacked into phones, paid the police for information and brought the reputation of three …
Rupert Murdoch faces the British Parliament today in a bid to save his reputation. But probably, some of his answers will be of the “I don’t remember” variety. Indeed, the police officers who were quizzed a week ago seemed to have several memory lapses. Amazing how your memory disappears just …