Archive for the 'Collective Memory' Category

Feeling Certain: How Our Brains Betray Us

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

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Within seconds, an expert can look at a fake painting and know it is not the work of a master. So wrote Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink. How? Because the expert’s gut feeling is “perfectly rational.”
Not […]

Get in Sync With Your Audience

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Driving along the Marin Headlands today, I switched radio channels away from the unfolding news of the stock market “panic.” Within minutes I had to pull to the side of the road. Listening to a recording of Barack Obama’s sermon yesterday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, it was these lines that choked me up:

Sphere: Related […]

Undecided? You’ll Probably Vote For Someone Who…

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

…looks like you, research shows. So if you are leaning toward one political (or marital?) candidate or have not yet decided, here’s how you might be influenced. “Morphing faces”- based research demonstrates your instinctive tendency to like the person who looks right – like you.
Smart Mobs author and Stanford professor, Howard Rheingold has […]

Our Shared Monuments. A Physical, Emotional History.

Friday, December 21st, 2007

The lofty, cracked Liberty Bell; the starkly beckoning Vietnam Veterans Memorial; the made-it- personal, traveling AIDS quilt and New York’s “Wall of The Missing.” For many Americans, these images are a deep part of our shared memory.
But how have they actually influenced the course of history - and our collective view of it […]

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