Internet Psychologist
Today is my birthday – hurray..! And I’m going shopping to celebrate. Many people get money, gift cards or vouchers for their birthday and I’m no exception, so it’s off to the shops later for a bit of a spending spree. I love shopping – as do most people. Indeed, …
Researchers in the USA have found an interesting way in which we can improve our memories. But it means that the growing numbers of people who spend their life online could suffer. The psychologists at the University of Michigan have discovered that social interaction helps boost memory skills. It appears …
Eighty four dead bodies are being held in liquid nitrogen in a facility in Michigan, USA, with their families hoping that one day they can be brought back to life. These people have been subjected to cryonics, whereby their bodies have been frozen so that they can be revived in …
People have perfect memories – or at least many psychologists reckon so. It seems we store everything that we sense, at least for a short while. The problem many of us have is getting that information back out of our brains. What you want for your web site is an …
New research at Stanford University suggests that a decision to buy something from your web site is based on two competing brain activities. The study tested the brain activity in people making decisions to buy things like a DVD, chocolates or a book. At several points their brains were scanned …
Lawyers are going to have a field day. But researchers in Chicago are working together on a project to create a virtual copy of individuals that could live on after their death. In other words there could be a copy of you alive on the Internet, doing business and earning …
You are already thinking about money. No I’m not a mind reader, but I’m a thought implanter. I’ve deliberately started you thinking that this article is about money. Two things have achieved that – the word cash in the headline and the picture of dollar bills. Psychologically, this is called …
Oh dear. Did you manage to think of a pink elephant even though I told you not to? Now I’ve mentioned it twice it’s very difficult for you not to imagine a pink elephant. But that’s precisely what I want you to do – pause, deep breath now….do not think …
Lovers often look into each others’ eyes and whisper “sweet nothings”. They are just a string of words, sometimes just noises, that mean “so much”. Darling, gorgeous, bunnikins – whatever takes your fancy. But these words of high emotion trigger our brain into some high level activity. New research conducted …
Just five years ago you probably had not even heard of blogging; YouTube wasn’t even a dream and the idea that you could “instant message” between your home and the other side of the world was almost unheard of. A lot has happened in the past five years. So can …
Last week I had an email from a customer who simply said they were unable to log in to a new forum I had built for a group of my clients. They couldn’t see where to register and gave up. Their email was a desperate plea for help. The same …
We now have more computers per household than bicycles. Apparently, there are an average of 2.6 computers in each home. The result is we are spending more time attached to our PCs than we are to each other. And that is certain to have several impacts on our lives – …
Years ago in the dim dark distant past of psychology – the 1970s – we thought that human memory was a chemically mediated function within the brain. Now, there is a growing belief that memory is based on DNA and much of it could therefore be distributed throughout our body. …
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is concerned that if the development of the Internet is left unchecked it could lead to the spread of misinformation. Some would say that is already happening. You can find plenty of web sites that are blatantly untrue; you can …