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Gumption: Do YouJustGetMe? Do I Even Get Myself?
"David Evans presented a paper at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008) this week on the science of interpersonal perception, or more specifically: how well people are able to understand (or 'get') others based on othe...
Absurdism, nonsense, bullshit « Radical Mutual-Improvement
"Confabulation is what happens when your imagination works with your memory to generate a story, in particular it is the confusion of imagined details with true events. The interesting thing about confabulation is that you cannot avoid it. Imaginatio...
Social Power and Self Deception -- Mario F. Heilmann. University of California at Los Angeles
"This paper endeavors to point out that the selfish interests of individuals caused deception and countermeasures against deception to become driving forces behind social influence strategies."...
On social networks and shared culture « Think Macro
"Digital media technologies tend to individualize us, to make us feel more separate; digital culture (i.e. the kinds of content those technologies give us access to and the cultural meanings that content regularly offers) tend to connect us, to make ...
Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites | Eszter Hargittai
"Are there systematic differences between people who use social network sites and those who stay away, despite a familiarity with them? Based on data from a survey administered to a diverse group of young adults, this article looks at the predictors ...
