Technology
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Growth & Development
The Allure of Charisma
Recently, streaming services have been releasing series after series focused on charismatic leaders/grifters and the damage they cause. WeCrashed (on…
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Habits & Productivity
Repetition and Truth: Understanding Illusory Truth Effect
We have touched on many cognitive biases in Optimistic Learner; Implicit Bias, Confirmation Bias, Optimism Bias, and Ingroup Bias. These…
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Lifestyle
Changing Audience Expectations: Celebrity, Social Media, and Parasocial Relationships
The term ‘Parasocial Relationship’ was, until recently, somewhat confined to discourse in Sociology departments. It was coined by Horton and…
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Habits & Productivity
Raising Digital Natives: Keeping Kids Curious, Creative and Caring
Having written a few articles regarding the effects of technology on our attention span and emotional wellbeing it seemed worthwhile…
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Growth & Development
Why Social Media is Not TV
There has always been criticism and concern related to new technology and its effects on society. Conrad Gessner warned of…
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Habits & Productivity
Staring Out the Window: The Benefits of Boredom
The United States tends towards using the unhealthy success metric of “busyness”. This is not surprising given its emphasis on…
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Habits & Productivity
Behavioral Addiction: This is Your Brain Online
In his book “Memoirs of an Addicted Brain” author and neuroscientist Marc Lewis1 looks back at his life as an…
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Habits & Productivity
Fear Of Missing Out – FOMO: The Need for Social Connection and How It’s Exploited Through Connectivity
It is no secret that social media is playing an increasingly important role in our economic, political, and personal lives.…
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