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Can Drastically Changing Your Face Give You An Identity Crisis?
Shift Buzz Your face is a big part of your identity — so what happens when plastic surgery substantially changes that face? How a radical appearance overhaul can affect one's sense of self.
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Link: Why Consumption Makes Us Sad
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/14/consumpt...
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No, not tuberculosis. The act of buying and owning new things. Psychologists say the loss of interest in the gifts we just received may be hedonic adaptation.
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Image: The Appeal Of Angry Birds (Infographic)
Everything you ever wanted to know about the psychology and sociology behind your favorite time-wasting game. Click to enlarge. (via aytm.com)
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Image: The Psychology of Coin Flipping
I wasn't sure if I should post this. But when I flipped a coin, I didn't even have to see how it landed…I knew what I had to do.
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Image: A Breakdown of Pop Culture's Great Trios
There's a formula for everything. I just can't believe someone found a way to logically compare Spongebob to both Captain Kirk and Harry Potter.
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Link: Mind: Polishing Tools for Your Fuse Box of Emotions
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/health/06mind.html?part...
The psychological devices people use to manage what they express can affect social interactions in unintended ways.
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Image: Was the Cowardly Lion Masturbating Too Much?
Guess I'm not visiting /r/psychology anymore… [Ed. Note: Please never, ever make me use the “cowardly lion masturbation” tag again. My favorite childhood movie has just been severely tarnished.]
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Link: Seth’s Blog: Is this noise inside my head bothering you?
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/06/is-this-n...
Not just my head, but your customer's head and yes…yours. Everyone has multiple conversations and priorities going on, competing agendas that come into play every time we make a choice about doing, buying, creating or interacting. I think these voices (and a few I missed) determine which career we choose, how good a job we do, where we shop and what we watch.
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Link: Romantic Comedies Ruin Your Life
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and...
A new study shows that fans of romantic comedies have unrealistic expectations of relationships and often have trouble communicating with their partners. Rom-com fans are more likely to believe that love is predestined, that if a person is meant to be with you they will know what you want without you telling them, and that sex with the right person will always be perfect. John Cusack, Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock: you're all on notice.
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We Feel Fine
Tech Buzz A website that aggregates newly posted blog entries with the phrase “I feel” and “I am feeling”, so you can research how people are feeling on a global scale. The entries are searchable by feeling, date, weather, location, and blogger’s age to help you answer questions like: Do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel like in Baghdad right now?
