Pages Tagged “psychology”
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- Somebody Else’s Problem
Guys, “Check your privilege” isn’t a moral judgment against you, it’s a reminder that we all have blind spots. The human brain is very good at downplaying or dismissing problems that we don’t see much ourselves to focus more energy on those that we do. It’s the same psychology that makes Douglas Adams’ “Somebody Else’s […]
- Re-Engineering the Road
Imagine a dangerous road curve. Do you blame the drivers and call it a day? After all, not everyone crashes over the edge or into oncoming traffic. Or do you bank the turn, calculate a safe speed limit and add a railing? It won’t stop all crashes, but it’ll reduce them. Re-engineering the road doesn’t […]
- Personas and Facets of Online Identity
Back in the day, @SpeedForceOrg was my comics fan persona on Twitter, as well as the newsfeed for the Flash blog. As more people joined me there, that seemed less appropriate and it became just the newsfeed/editorial voice. I find myself replying with my main account account to people I follow on the other. Which […]
- Allocating Smiles
Dina from this Dumbing of Age comic. Originally posted on Tumblr.
- Parking Lot Design: Guiding People to Make Bad Choices
Dozens of spaces in this lot are unusable because people park too close on either side. Some are just jerks, but the design leads them to park badly.
- Personality “Type”
I tried out the Typealizer, which purports to analyze the text of a blog and determine the author’s personality type. Interestingly enough, it came up with different results depending on which of my blogs I pointed it to. LiveJournal: ESTP – The Doers K-Squared Ramblings: ESTJ – The Guardians (technically this one’s a group blog, […]
- The Uncanny Valley
I saw an interesting article on Slate the other day: The Undead Zone: Why realistic graphics make humans look creepy. The basic thrust of the article is that when something looks slightly human – say a cartoon, or a C3PO-like robot – we fill in the gaps. But when something looks almost, but not quite […]