psychology
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Is Technology Making Me More Depressed?
At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a semi-efficient if error-prone method of trying to keep in touch with your parents. What it seems wholly unequipped to provide is “happiness.” Think of the most smartphone-dependent people you know. Do they seem happy to you?…
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What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked — using phrases like “surveillance capitalism,” “passive radicalisation,” “kind of a boring place” — he would probably disagree with them, maybe even strongly. For that reason, and many others, it seems unlikely that Zuck would ever pull the plug…
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How I Learned To Let Go Of My Absent Father
I was nervous on the day of my year 10 formal. It was important that I looked perfect. Unlike most other fifteen year olds, my jitters extended beyond the desire for peer acceptance and getting kissed by a cute boy. I was meeting my father for the first time, and I desperately needed it…
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You May Not See as Much Colour as You Think You Do
If everything in your peripheral vision suddenly changed from colour to black and white, would you notice? There’s a good chance you wouldn’t — in a new study involving virtual reality, most people never realised that their surroundings had abruptly desaturated. The results add to a large body of research suggesting we often perceive much…