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  • Looking for love online…

    May 27th, 2012 ··Blog, Psychology, Social Media·Comment Off

    If you’ve had your ear to the virtual ground, chances are you’ll have heard the rumour that 1 in 5 of us now find our significant others online. Whatever we think of this statistic (or the research

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  • F is for Facebook. F is for Flow.

    May 20th, 2012 ··Blog, Psychology, Social Media·Comment Off

    Flow… the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it. – Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Psychologist

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  • The God Helmet: is free will just an illusion?

    May 13th, 2012 ··Blog, Psychology·1Comment

    If all experiences are generated by brain activity, then experiences of God and spirits should also be produced by the appropriate cerebral stimulation. – Michael Persinger | Behavioural Neuroscientist We often talk about free will as if it were something real – a cherished concept upon which to build our democracies in the private pursuit...

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  • Guest Post: Game Changers | Dan Fox

    May 6th, 2012 ··Blog, Guest Post, Web Psychology·Comment Off

    Last week at the Insight 2.0 conference, I had the pleasure of being in the audience as the Fantastic Mr. Fox played games with us from the stage. There’s something so inherently exciting and life-affirming about play, and yet it’s an area which is only just starting to attract our attention in the online world.

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