Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘Psychology’

The Decade In Loudness

“Robert Siegel talks with two guests about how recorded music has changed in the past decade. First, mastering engineer Bob Ludwig explains how recordings have gotten louder and worse. Then Robert talks Andrew Oxenham, a professor in the Psychology department at the University of Minnesota, about how the ubiquity of MP3’s has changed what we hear.”

“I Can Do That” Syndrome

You’re listening to a piece of music and it sounds so simple and easy that you say to yourself, “I can do that.” But can you really? And if you can, how come you haven’t yet? Read on…

Power and Perspectives

Not good news for our current political climate. A recent study appearing in the December 2006 issue of Psychological Science reports that people with power are often unable to take other people’s perspective.
Study Gives Us A New Perspective On The Powerful
To study the link between power and perspective taking, Galinsky and colleagues used a unique [...]

There Is Nothing Boring In Life. Only Boring People.

There is a common misconception that “things” can be boring. You may find doing your taxes boring. But some people find it riveting. Therefore, we can’t say that doing taxes is boring. “It” is not boring. Then what part of that sentence or thought is boring? It is the person doing the thinking that is [...]

How To Be An Expert

From: How to be an expert
The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication. All that talk about prodigies? We could all be prodigies (or nearly so) if we just put in the time and focused. At least that’s what the brain guys are saying. Best of all–it’s almost never too late.
MusicHack #2:
Talent = [...]

A Nobel Winner Can Help You Keep Your Resolutions

Cool article on the psychology of setting goals.
The problem, he suggested, is that pretty much everybody suffers from a split personality. One self desperately wants to lose weight or quit smoking or run two miles a day or get up early to work. The other wants dessert or a cigarette, hates exercise or loves sleep.
I [...]