Here is what I am reading today: music and why it moves us “Researchers at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam have discovered a universal property of musical scales. Until now it was assumed that the only thing scales throughout the world have 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…
My children claim that somehow their Dad and I brainwashed them into thinking that there was no choice but to be highly educated. When Kristin was about 7, she asked me if I would be mad at her if she didn’t get a Ph.D. I asked her if she even Read more…
(posted by iPad) The Association for Psychological Sciences Conference is over for this year but has left a powerful impression! Here are a few of the pictures we took while at the convention and in Boston! Here are a couple of articles that I thought you might enjoy: Empathy:college students Read more…
Here are a few pictures from the opening of the 2010 conference ! On the bottom is a sea of students, researchers and professors studying the first day poster session; next on the upper right, the legendary ( I believe she might hate that title) Janet Taylor Spence reading off Read more…