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  1. Celebrating Boredom | On Point

    Life can be very exciting. It can also be boring.

    Ancient Greeks knew it. Romans knew it. Monks in the desert knew it.

    And on long summer days or Sunday afternoons, in lines waiting, or lecture halls wilting, anyone can know boredom.

    We avoid it. But sometimes we may just need it. To escape the clamor and rush of modern life.

    We’ll talk with classicist Peter Toohey today about the history and value of boredom. With movie critic A.O. Scott about long boring movies. And with Jonah Leher about boredom as the door to dreams.

    This hour On Point: what’s interesting about boredom.

    http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/06/13/celebrating-boredom

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  2. Alex Payne - The Machine Starts

    How Computers and the Internet are Re-programming Human Behaviour.

    http://www.themachinestarts.com/read/26

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  3. SpoolCast: Stephen Anderson’s Designing Seductive Business Apps: Live!

    t’s becoming common to see behavioral cues in everyday web applications. Designers are looking to encourage certain actions, and are turning to the principles of behavioral psychology to achieve their goals. No longer solely the domain of social and gaming apps, you can leverage many of these in your daily work.

    Stephen Anderson is the first person we think of when it comes to these kinds of interactions. Stephen is an independent consultant and creator of the Mental Notes, a set of reference cards with design insights from the world of psychology.

    Stephen is one of the most popular speakers at the Web App Masters Tour and we want to share a sample of his talk, Designing Seductive Business Apps. In this portion of his talk, he presents three concepts: Scarcity, Set Completion and the Feedback Loop.

    http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2010/05/19/spoolcast-stephen-andersons-designing-seductive-business-apps-live/

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  4. The Dunning-Kruger effect - Science Show

    The dumb get confident, while the intelligent get doubtful. That’s the conclusion that David Dunning and Justin Kruger came to when studying people’s perceptions of their own talents. What has now become known as the Dunning-Kruger effect helps describe why lay people often act as experts and inept pollies get our votes.

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  5. Storytelling: How narratives shape our reality, ideas and behaviour

    Ever since its emergence, humanity has cultivated the art of telling stories, an art that is everywhere at the heart of the social bond. But since the 1990s, first in the US and then in Europe, this art has been colonized by the domain of public relations and triumphant capitalism, and relabelled with the anodyne name of storytelling.

    This has become a weapon in the hands of marketing, management and political gurus, so as to better format the minds of consumers and citizens. Behind the advertising campaigns, but also in the shadows of victorious electoral campaigns from Bush to Sarkozy and Obama hide sophisticated storytelling management or digital storytelling technicians.

    Join author and researcher Christian Salmon as he unveils the mechanics of a storytelling machine, far more effective than Orwellian visions of totalitarian society. The subject that it wants to create is a bewitched individual, immersed in a fictive universe that filters perceptions, stimulates feelings and frames behaviour and ideas.

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2010/storytelling-how-narratives-shape-our-reality,-ideas-and-behaviour

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  6. Mind Control: Psychology for the Web

    We all know web design tricks to getting people to do what you want - make buttons bigger, use accent colors, etc. There are other strategies, however, that rely on the more proven tools of psychology; this session will explore reciprocity, scarcity, and more, and see how effective they can be.

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  7. How Much is Too Much? RadioLab on Giving People Choices

    From http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/11/14/segments/113274

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  8. Malcolm Gladwell on Human Nature | Pop!Tech Conference 2004

    ~30:00 http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail230.html

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