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The Psychology of Cyberspace

The Psychology of Cyberspace
This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. I think of it as evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call "the psychology of cyberspace" - or simply "cyberpsychology." Revised and expanded over time, this hypertext book originally was created in January of 1996. My most recent work focuses on a specific area of cyberpsychology that I call photographic psychology: the study of how people create, share, and react to images in the age of digital technology and cyberspace. I have devoted a separate online book to that topic. In order to make these readings accessible to as many people as possible, I have written them in a style that is not overly abstract or technical. Below is the table of contents for the seven major sections in this book. will produce a pop-up window containing an abstract of the article in that section.

Science & Technology at Scientific America Sleep aids memory. Whether tested in animals or humans, studies have shown that sense memories--such as learning a certain sequence of dance steps--take root more solidly when paired with adequate rest. Now new research shows that so-called declarative memories--such as a sequence of facts--also benefit from slumber, especially when subjects are challenged with subsequent, competing information. Jeffrey Ellenbogen of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues recruited 60 healthy subjects--excluding night owls, the restless and the lethargic--and asked them to memorize 20 pairs of random words, such as blanket and village. The sleepers barely outperformed their sleepless peers in the first comparison: sleepers accurately recalled 94 percent of the pairings compared to just 82 percent for their peers. Ellenbogen and his colleagues also attempted to control for concerns that the time of day might account for the finding.

Sylvie chevrier C’est avec une très grande tristesse que nous apprenons le décès de Ludovic Challéat, dans l’avalanche du Manaslu survenue dans la nuit du dimanche 23 Centre de recherche en Sciences de Gestion de l'université Paris Paris-Est, l'Institut de Recherche en Gestion (IRG) est reconnu « équipe d'accueil » par le CNRS depuis 1997. L’IRG couvre l'ensemble des champs des Sciences de Gestion. L'IRG regroupe les enseignants-chercheurs et les doctorants dans 3 pôles disciplinaires : Finance et Comptabilité, Management et Stratégie, Marketing et Logistique. L'IRG compte environ 70 enseignants-chercheurs et une cinquantaine de doctorants. La mission de service public de l'IRG est de soutenir et de favoriser le développement de la recherche en Sciences de Gestion à l'Université Paris Est et de participer à la progression des connaissances scientifiques et techniques dans ce domaine. Les recherches s’articulent autour de quatre axes : Organisation et gouvernance du laboratoire : cliquez ici

Echo Chernik - Art Nouveau Illustration Understanding Human Behavior (English) -- ThinkQuest team #26618 As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation

Breaking Waves A Google Waves Experiment Link to Breaking Waves: Birmingham Snow Wave Google Wave was previewed to Google employees on May 27th 2009. Described as a “personal communication and collaboration tool” it was gradually rolled out from September 2009 via invitation. A combination of instant messenger and email, users could send messages to their contacts in a chain (similar to Google Mail) but then move back UP the chain, and insert text, images, video etc to add to the conversation. The hype surrounding Google Wave had been immense, yet my initial experiences of it were less than favourable. I found the site restrictive, hard to navigate and slow. It had been widely tipped as a useful tool for businesses, and even education, when the process of the presentation or the lesson is the focus, but would it work for journalism, where traditionally the process is building up to a finished product ‐be that a bulletin, article or a report? Today’s journalism is a conversation, not a lecture.

Sexual Success And The Schizoid Factor 28 April 2006 By Rusty Rockets Ever wondered why uncouth, scruffy rock musicians are pursued by legions of doting, lovelorn female fans? Like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Stephen Pinker, evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller considers sexual selection to be right up there in importance with natural selection. Neuroscientist V. Despite what seems to be logically valid reasoning, Ramachandran stresses that the talents and specializations associated with the savant are not enough. But if creative juices are responsible for an evolutionary advantage, there must surely be some aspect of this seemingly ineffable trait that can be identified as heritable. After conducting their own study, researchers Daniel Nettle and Helen Clegg believe that they have confirmed Miller's assertions, and in doing so have solved a long standing mystery. Unusual experiences Contains items referring to perceptual and cognitive aberrations and magical thinking. One recent study illustrates this point.

George My wife Karen (on the right in the photo below) and I have been married since 1979, and we have two daughters. Evan Ann (on the far left in the family photo) was born in 1985, and she entered Stanford University in 2004. Caitlin (next to Evan) was born in 1988, and she started the University of Central Florida in 2006. Karen and I live with our 100-pound puppy, Latte, in Tallahassee. As a family, we enjoy the beach and exploring historical sites, such as the fort at St. I enjoy hiking, especially in the mountains.

Cyberpunk William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy novels are famous early cyberpunk novels. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting, noted for its focus on "high tech and low life".[1][2] It features advanced technology and science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.[3] Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.—Lawrence Person[7] Style and ethos[edit] Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley.[8] Setting[edit] Shibuya, Tokyo.[11] Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, "Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk Protagonists[edit] Media[edit] Literature[edit]

47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I’ll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn’t mean that’s it’s the most important.. just that it came to mind first. Dr. <div class="slide-intro-bottom"><a href="

Is rock dead? Support blog &quot;This Is Your Brain on Music&quot; | Salon Book If you happened to have been born between about 1978 and 1981, there’s a fair chance you count yourself an obsessive of the Southern California rock band Weezer. The affection would not make sense to those even just a bit older or younger, who might regard Weezer’s guitar pop as clever and pleasing but also somewhat too shallow to have much lasting significance. Those of a certain age, though, experienced the group’s 1994 eponymous debut release, known to fans as the Blue Album, as a thing of precise and overflowing emotion — 10 tracks that functioned like keys to secret locks in the teenage brain, opening up all the awkwardness and anxiousness of those melodramatic high school years. We all have music like this, music that burns into the soul when we’re young and remains essential for the rest of time. For me it was the Blue Album and anything the Smashing Pumpkins did up until about 1998. Levitin is a neuroscientist and a former record producer.

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