moritherapy/research

From the page: "Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School of Economics. While previous studies have focused almost exclusively on punishment for promoting public cooperation, here rewards are shown to be much more successful."

Neat reference database. This is the one for the Energy Project (the one I referred to earlier, "Manage your energy, not your time"

From the page: "Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a popular microblogging tool has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006. In this paper, we present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of Twitter's social network. We find that people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. Finally, we analyze the user intentions associated at a community level and show how users with similar intentions connect with each other."

A double yummy: Talk about research and statistics, topics that always warm my brain (I heard not everybody loves them as much as I do, I have no idea why) - AND it's Rick Mercer. Well, okay, there's probably more people who love this Canadian Jon Stewart than statistics but anyways, here's a little excerpt:

"these polling companies, they only call land lines. They don't call cell phones. So right off the bat, if you're under the age of 30, you don't get called. Your opinion doesn't count. And then of course a lot of Canadians, I'd go so far as to say the average Canadian, just doesn't like to pick up the phone if they don't know who's on the other line. That's why God invented call display. And keep in mind, most of these calls are all made in the evening between five and nine pm. So if you have a social life or small kids, or you do shift work, or you happen to like Jeopardy, your opinion doesn't count."

A very well done blog aggregator, for blogs written by African-Americans. This entry here is about medical experiments done with the "help" of poor black families.

Great list of links re education, psychology and research

Fascinating. From one of my favourite blogs, PsyBlog.

"Would you believe that people who live with each other for 25 years actually develop similar facial features? I don't just mean that people tend to choose partners who resemble them, rather that over time together couple's features actually converge. It's weird, but there's evidence for it from a singular study carried out by the noted psychologist Robert Zajonc and colleagues."