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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A study out of Ohio state reports that “fake” news, such as Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report, doesn’t inform or teach viewers as much about political issues and cadidates as does watching news on television networks like CNN and NBC.  I never thought learning was the issue when reports started coming out saying that [...]

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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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Attention typography addicts, word-smiths, artists, and web-procrastinators! I have just come across the coolest site: Wordle. It creates art from your words. It is like the bubbling exercises to spur creativity. This way, you not only get to push your brain to think about the words that describe your concept [...]

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