Here is what I am reading today: even sea turtles need rest, matey! “… Apparently, they play, too.In fact, according to Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, many animals — not just dogs, cats, and monkeys — need a little play time” cashing in on Read more…
I had the pleasure earlier this summer of speaking with Anna Asker, who writes for the Swedish newspaper SvD, about our research on Facebook and Loneliness. In a nutshell, our data showed that at least with university students and the “nonymous” environment of Facebook, connectivity offline predicted connectivity online. The Read more…
We have been very fortunate in the past few years to have experienced few glitches in our technology at home. Yes, there was the occasional hard drive crash, but we have learned to back up everything with super redundancy. So the two-day Internet outage we just experienced was definitely out Read more…
One of the great things about psychology is that it is useful to people in so many different fields of study. In an upcoming article in the Journal of Consumer Research, Katherine Loveland and her colleagues show how loneliness and feelings of social exclusion lead to choices of nostalgic products over Read more…
It’s always fun to do research, but it’s even more fun when people find what you do interesting. We have had a lot of attention for the Facebook work that our group of stalwart student researchers have done over the last year and a half or so. The most recent Read more…