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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPeople who grew up being told they were too sensitive didn't become less sensitive. They became editors. Every reaction now passes through a filter that decides whether the feeling is proportionate enough to be allowed out, and that filtering process is so automatic they genuinely believe they're calm when they're actually curating. - Silicon Canals
Sensitive children often suppress their emotions, leading to automated behaviors that mask true feelings.
#communication
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says people who reply to messages within seconds aren't just efficient - they've built their sense of safety around being reachable, because somewhere in their past, being slow to respond had consequences - Silicon Canals
Instant responses to messages often stem from a psychological need to mitigate perceived threats rather than mere efficiency.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 days agoHow "Supercommunicators" Make Conversations Work
There are three conversation types: practical, emotional, and social, with emotional intelligence playing a key role in effective communication.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says people who command the most respect in a room aren't the loudest or most confident - they're the ones who can disagree without making others feel stupid for having believed something different - Silicon Canals
Respectful disagreement fosters genuine influence and encourages open dialogue.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoNobody tells you that expecting instant replies is a relatively new social norm - and that an entire generation learned to communicate in ways that never required it - Silicon Canals
Instant communication has created pressure that undermines meaningful relationships, which thrived in a slower-paced era of correspondence.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says people who reply to messages within seconds aren't just efficient - they've built their sense of safety around being reachable, because somewhere in their past, being slow to respond had consequences - Silicon Canals
Instant responses to messages often stem from a psychological need to mitigate perceived threats rather than mere efficiency.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says people who command the most respect in a room aren't the loudest or most confident - they're the ones who can disagree without making others feel stupid for having believed something different - Silicon Canals
Respectful disagreement fosters genuine influence and encourages open dialogue.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days agoIt's official: scientists aren't funny. But it doesn't have to be this way | Helen Pilcher
The findings confirm research that I conducted more than 20 years ago. Under the guise of the Comedy Research Project, Timandra Harkness and I performed a randomised clinical trial to assess whether or not science can be funny.
Humor
#meta
Intellectual property law
fromAbove the Law
1 week agoEveryone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They're Actually Cheering For - Above the Law
Meta's recent legal losses threaten the foundational protections of Section 230, impacting all online platforms and user-generated content liability.
fromThe Atlantic
1 day agoHow Some People Became So Averse to Hype
Anna Holmes defines 'hype aversion' as a reflex against being told what to like, suggesting that popularity can create pressure rather than signal quality. This feeling can lead to a deliberate choice to resist mainstream culture.
Media industry
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
23 hours agoSome people don't cancel plans because they're flaky. They committed when one version of their energy was available and the person who wakes up that morning is operating on a completely different reserves system. The commitment was real. The capacity isn't. - Silicon Canals
Cancelled plans reveal a flawed assumption about self-consistency and commitment, suggesting a need for a new understanding of social expectations.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says the loneliest people in life aren't the ones nobody likes - they're the kind, helpful people everyone appreciates but nobody thinks to check on because they seem so self-sufficient - Silicon Canals
Highly capable, helpful individuals often feel lonely because their strength creates an illusion that they do not need support.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days agoEx-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: It was nonsense. It was lies'
Owens described how Infowars aimed to create a cinematic experience, stating, 'We would go out there, we would shoot videos like we were in the weeds, we were showing what was really going on. But it was nonsense. It was lies.'
Media industry
Media industry
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
5 days agoPolitics in an Attention Economy | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Candidates must be cultural figures to succeed in today's American politics, navigating an attention economy shaped by algorithms.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPeople who were labeled 'too sensitive' often became adults who read rooms before anyone speaks, and the difference between those two things is about 20 years of misunderstanding - Silicon Canals
Sensitivity can evolve from a perceived weakness into a valuable skill for understanding emotional dynamics in various situations.
Marketing tech
fromPR Daily
1 month agoTurning sentiment into a strategy - PR Daily
PR teams must move beyond basic positive/negative sentiment analysis to track deeper emotions like joy, anger, fear, and trust, which directly predict business outcomes including purchase intent, customer churn, and crisis velocity.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 weeks agoPeople Really, Really Despise AI - Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds
Public sentiment toward AI has become overwhelmingly negative, with only 26% viewing it positively compared to 46% viewing it negatively, making AI less favorable than ICE, Trump, and the Democratic Party.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says if someone secretly dislikes you they'll almost never say it out loud - but their body will, in the microseconds before they've decided what their face is supposed to be doing, and learning to read those moments is one of the more uncomfortable social skills available to anyone willing to develop it - Silicon Canals
Microexpressions reveal true emotions faster than conscious control, providing insights into feelings that words may conceal.
Media industry
fromFuturism
2 weeks agoCrowd's Reaction to BuzzFeed's New AI App: Uncomfortable Laughter
BuzzFeed faces severe financial distress with $57.3 million net loss in 2025 and substantial doubt about continuing operations, despite pivoting to AI-focused products that received poor reception at SXSW.
Digital life
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks agoPsychology says the silent observer on social media isn't avoiding connection - they're protecting the version of themselves that exists before it's been formatted for an audience, and that protection, however invisible, is one of the more deliberate acts of self-preservation available in the current media environment - Silicon Canals
Silent social media observers protect their authentic selves by avoiding the performance and exhaustion of curating content for public audiences.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month agoNEW POLL: TWICE as Many Americans Think Trump Is Racist' Than Say He Isn't Amid White House Protestations
By a two-to-one margin, more Americans believe that President Donald Trump is racist than think he is not, even as Trump and his White House protest what they call false accusations of racism. While never far away, the subject of Trump and racism was top of mind when the president issued a denial of racism as he commented on the death of Reverend Jesse Jackson, and that denial was blown up in a White House briefing exchange.
US politics
fromInc
2 months agoHow to Create a Social Listening Tool In 3 Easy Steps
You don't need to pay for expensive software tools in order to analyze what people are saying about your brand online, according to Jazmin Griffith, the founder of social listening agency Que Lo Que. Social listening, or the act of tracking customer sentiment through social media comments and posts, is an important practice for any business with an online presence. "There's a lot of data out there," John Box, the CEO of Meltwater, a SaaS platform that provides social listening services, previously told Inc.
Social media marketing
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