by Kare Anderson | Aug 13, 2008 | behavior, Research
If you are, google wants to place ads on your blog or the profile page on the social network(s) to which you belong. Last month, google filed a patent that will help the company find key influencers in each network. How will google find you? See the steps in this...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 13, 2008 | behavior, influence, Research
In the study I dub “Are you powerful or not?” I’d be in a third category. Why? Because I felt insulted when instructed to do what researchers asked of students. At Northwestern and Stanford, no less. Here’s what happened. Two professors, Adam Galinsky and Joe Magee...
by Kare Anderson | Apr 15, 2008 | behavior, Book, collaboration, Friendship, Learning, Research
When we first fall for someone, we become enamored with everything about that person. We gush. We create things to commemorate their specialness. We feel so connected, we fill in the blanks about what we don’t know. We assume we will like the rest of that person just...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 31, 2008 | Collective Intelligence, Research
… of their faces it seems. And that’s all. College students were shown head shots of CEOs at the bottom and top of the Fortune 1000 list. Even without knowing the CEOs’ names, companies or any other background they “naively” guessed which people led the most...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 16, 2008 | Collective Memory, Learning, Research
…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...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 30, 2007 | Media, Research
The porn industry is usually an early adopter of new media technologies. Not sticking with “just” tawdry sex shops in the tenderloin. Nope. Customers can download naked images in the privacy of their home or the semi-privacy of their hotel room. That means...
