The Media Psychology Blog

Scott Kaufman in a Psychology Today blog discusses research claiming that conservatives are less creative (Are conservatives less creative than liberals?).  Kaufman is fairly even-handed, but I have a problem with research that takes several political policy positions and uses that to establish that some is a “conservative” since that has a much broader social [...]

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The question of ‘Internet Addiction’ is big in China. Parents are more worried than ever about their child’s performance–most have only one child to bear the brunt of all that parental pressure–and those same parents are facing a digital divide between themselves and the new generation.
China has its own set of pressures and changes.  But [...]

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Announcing the inaugural edition of the Media Psychology Review is a breakthrough as the first academic e-zine employing multiple media forms.

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Sometimes new ideas are right in front of us in the garden. The Media Creativity blog reports that watermelons are being tested as ad vehicles. When I read this, I imagined mini-billboards applied across the span of the rotund fruit, but the the ad is applied more discreetly as a sticker (but does [...]

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I am lucky to be able to see Beijing in person during the Olympics. The athletic accomplishments aside–and the Chinese had 16 gold medals last I checked–the people’s pride in being a host to the games is palpable.

Putting on the Olympics is a lot of work. Designing, constructing, staffing, planning and delivering demand a [...]

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