Best Reads Round-up: Technology, Empathy, Learning
In my work as a behavioral designer, I come across important stories on how psychology influences our behavior. Every week, I share my round-up of the most important stories at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. I hope you enjoy them!
If you're a regular reader, you've probably read me pose the question before: are we really addicted to technology?
Read the media, and you'll reliably find one answer. Read the research, and you'll likely find the counter.
But in one way, the true, factual answer to the question is almost irrelevant— Many of us feel as though we're powerless to change our relationship with technology.
And it's this fundamental feeling that is more important than the facts. If you understand this, you'll see why the question itself barely matters.??
When we think of "peer pressure", the mental image more than likely has a negative skew. For many, this may include parties, drugs, or risky behaviours.
But what if this bias is unfair? Recent studies from Sweden show that peer group influence can have many positives for teens, outside of the known developmental benefits.?
Is empathy largely learnt during adolescence? How can our peer group during this period help shape this?
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How to Learn From Your Failures (Inverse)
Research outlines two major responses to failure:
Flight, a tendency to ignore negative performance feedback. Or fight, a downplaying, "sour-grapes" response to the flunked endeavour.
Combined, these responses may inhibit our ability to learn from our failures. In fact, "...researchers have consistently found that people "underlearn" from failure.... In fact, people continue to not learn from errors even as the incentives to do so increase"
This article provides strategies to cope with initial feelings of failure, and how to process our failures to help us stop repeating the same mistakes.
Happy reading!
- Nir
Nir Eyal is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products , is an international bestseller and taught companies how to design more engaging products. His second book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life , reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com
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2 年There is a root to the problem. Enjoy the read
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2 年Addiction or not, I love how my favorite habit app has gamified things. I think I go for the dopamine hits but maybe it's also a boost in that sense of control.
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2 年Good perspective. Thanks for sharing!
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2 年Good read!!
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2 年I love this article, the new perspective to look at things and the depth. Thanks for sharing