Collection edited by Andy DeSoto

Human Behavior and Technology

An intersection of cognitive psychology and other behavioral disciplines with observations about technology. New submissions should contain both (1) a bit of empirical data and (2) a lot of serious thinking.

Fading Faces
Why people have become vague to me over time
RogerKay3 min read
The Next Black
Exploring the Future of Clothing
Kristina Dimitrova4 min read
How Medium Is Stifling Creativitiy
Upcoming changes to Medium Collections are good for the big incumbent. The little start-up? Not so much.
CaliAbdul in Human communication5 min read
Why Doesn’t TechCrunch Cover Latin America?
An in-depth look at TechCrunch’s forgotten region
Agu De Marco in PR and Marketing for Startups3 min read
Nature vs Nurture? You may be asking the wrong question
A conversation with UCLA’s George Slavich on how our environments can influence our genes.
The Psych Report10 min read
A Conversation with My Brain
A Plea For Accurate Language About Our Biological Parts and Processes
Karen Kilbane in Mammals Generate Biological, Not Psychological Responses8 min read
How Humanity and Not a Literary Agent Changed My Life
A Thank You for 232 Humanists
Samuel L. Barrantes5 min read
Essay: Fascism as Philosophy and the Power of Persuasion
Why humans are drawn to fascism, as seen in early 20th century Italy
Samuel L. Barrantes in The New Cynicism24 min read
Behavior is the wild west of medicine
In 2010, I was getting ready to graduate from college and start medical school.
Jeff Clark in Learning Medicine3 min read
Re-imagining the energy dashboard display
How I went from boring numbers to cute little people with no trousers
Stina Jonsson4 min read
How Technology Has Created a Disguise of Socialization
… and why our minds and bodies could use a real friend.
Anthony Richardson in Neuroscience + Internet6 min read
3 User Onboarding Hacks You Aren’t Using
Email, push notification, and text message tricks to onboard web and mobile app users (examples & pics)
Ashli in Life Hacks for Business4 min read
Hispanics, Technology & The Untapped Potential
With an estimated purchasing power of $1.2 trillion, this rapidly expanding demographic is tech-savvy and eager for innovation.
Agu De Marco4 min read
Carte Blanche
An Irish passport opens many doors abroad but what of our “open door” policy to personal data here at home?
Jonny Darling in Thinking Persons Guide to the Digital Age5 min read
Peek’s Potential Lyft Across the User Adoption Chasm
And Why Lyft Would Jump at the Chance
Devon Edwards in Psychology and Business7 min read
Cause or Effect?
In our daily struggles, are we focused on trying to address the cause of our challenges, or are we distracted by and focused on fixing the…
Scott Rodriguez4 min read
The Last 3 Weeks
On the conflicts of business anthropology
Christian Ramsey in Business Anthropology9 min read
Can You Just Tell Me What to Do?
The problems with progressive instructional models in K12 education
Ben Stern in Teaching, Learning, & Education5 min read
Why Slate’s Article on Testing is Wrong
Standardized tests aren’t magic fairy dust
i heart literati8 min read
10 Reasons You Will Read This Medium Post
A primer on neural networks and heuristic biases
Ryan Shmeizer in Human Parts9 min read
What a Greyhound bus driver taught me about making people happy
The making of an epic customer experience
Nate Desmond in Travel Narrative3 min read
THE PHONE I LEFT APPLE FOR
“I barely took notice of other smartphones on the market, but this made me reconsider that.”
Ben Robinson5 min read
Bad infographics as signs of cultural angst
Evolving technical communication beyond the ideology of the text
Dawn Henwood, Ph.D.8 min read
Focusing on Mentally Ill ‘Boogeymen’ Won’t Prevent Mass Shootings
His five years as a student at Sandy Hook Elementary school were uneventful.
Erin Brodwin6 min read
6 Ways Work Will Change
New Technologies Solving Big Problems
Erick Schonfeld6 min read

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