The Media Psychology Blog

In new study out of Vanderbilt, reported in Science Daily “Mind’s Eye’ Influences Visual Perception,” researchers Pearson, Tong, and Clifford report that what we imagine (see in our “mind’s eye) directly impacts our visual perception. (The actual article appears in Current Biology). This is the first research that shows that the images we make [...]

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Okay, I have to admit I am a gadget-freak. My husband continually gives me grief because I can justify any technology purchase by saying “but I’m a Media Psychologist. I HAVE to know PERSONALLY how it feels to use these things.” So, right after I got the Wii and the iPod touch, [...]

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It’s fitting that my very first blog post, as in, any blog, ever, was spurred by yesterday’s purchase of a to celebrate our 12-year wedding anniversary. Sure, jewelery and perfume and flowers are romantic, but for a true television lover like myself, nothing beats watching a show about a horrific medical anomaly in brilliant high [...]

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It’s one year since the iPhone reports Tom Krazit at CNET. He believes there are two types of people who anted up the bucks to be an early adopter - die hard techno geeks who love new cool gadgets and smart phone newbies who suckered in at the first “hello” (Media tribute to [...]

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So, here I am, starting off my morning checking e-mail.  Once I get past the Cialis ads, debt consolidation promises, endless RSS feeds, newsletters, and e-news links, I get to the stuff that I really like more than anything else in my daily mediated communication ritual.
However, before I tell you want that is, let me [...]

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