Tots who sleep less have more behavior problems, says study
To savor the flavor, perform a short ritual first
Researchers can track your facial expressions
Now data miners can predict where you’ll be, even in 2 years.
Adam Sadilek, formerly of Microsoft, now a researcher at Google, and John Krumm, a principal researcher at Microsoft, were inspired by the question of predicting where people would be in the future and even led off with the query, “Where are you going to be 285 days from now at 2PM?” in their their paper, Far Out: Predicting Long-Term Human Mobility.
What’s your appendix really for?
Migration for more money does not bring more happiness
Cultural products have evolutionary roots
Epic battles, whirlwind romances, family feuds, heroic attempts to save the lives of strangers: these are stories guaranteed to grace the silver screen. According to new research from Concordia University, that’s not lazy scriptwriting, that’s evolutionary consumerism.
Marketing professor Gad Saad says evolution has hard-wired humans to be naturally drawn toward a specific set of universal narratives within cultural products. His new article in the Journal of Consumer Psychology shows that little in consumer behaviour can be fully understood without the guiding light of evolution.
What is nostalgia good for? Quite a bit the NY Times says
Nostalgia – once thought of as a malady of the depressed may be useful in your life. The New York Times summarises the recent research that shows nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.