WARNING: The following discussion is about the correlation between happiness and many other factors. But it’s just correlation. The factors below are correlated with happiness, but that does not mean they CAUSE happiness. “Correlation does not imply causation”. Now that I’ve posted the warning, I can talk about some of the interesting correlations between happiness…
Category Archives: psychology
7 Tips To Get A Team To Implement Your Recommendations: Tip #4
This is the 4th in a 7-part series on how to get a team to implement your recommendations. Tip #1 was: Hide Your Top 3 Recommendations. Tip #2 was Say “You”, “They”, “Customers”, “Users”, or “Research”. Don’t say “I”. Tip #3 was Give Them A Presentation, Don’t Send Them A Report. Now for Tip #4. The context…
7 Tips to Get A Team To Implement Your Recommendations: Tip #2
This is the 2nd in a series on how to get a team to implement your recommendations. Tip #1 was: Hide Your top 3 Recommendations. Now for Tip #2. The context is that you want to see your recommendations implemented. How can you present them to a team so that they will be acted on…
7 Tips to Get A Team To Implement Your Recommendations: Tip #1
Have you ever found yourself in a meeting trying to convince a team to implement your recommendations? Perhaps you are a web designer who wants the team to move ahead with your design, or you are a user experience professional who has recommended a re-design to make a product more usable. You work hard and…
Fonts, Typography, And How We Read Online
I’ve been a fan of Kevin Larson’s writing about fonts, typography and online reading for some time. I mention him in my latest book, 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People. Kevin is a reading psychologist that works with typographers at Microsoft. He’s part of a team at Microsoft with a goal to…
100 Things You Should Know About People Has Reached 100!
I started the series “100 Things You Should Know About People” on October 25, 2009. It took me almost 1.5 years (!) but I’ve finally finished. I posted #100 on April 4, 2011. It’s been a lot of work, but a lot of fun, and I thank everyone for all the support and kind…
100 Things You Should Know About People: #97 — People Filter Information
Have you ever met someone that has a long held belief that they just won’t change, no matter how much evidence you show them that their belief is not tenable? People seek out and pay attention to information and cues that confirm the beliefs that they have. They don’t seek out, in fact they ignore,…
100 Things You Should Know About People: #95 — People Decide Who And What Is Alive By The Eyes
In a previous post, I talked about the special part of the brain that is for recognizing faces. New research by Christine Looser shows that “the eyes have it” when it comes to faces. When is a face human and alive? — Christine Looser takes pictures of people and then morphs them in stages into…
100 Things You Should Know About People: #93 — Titles Provide Context
Read this paragraph: First you sort the items into like categories. Using color for sorting is common, but you can also use other characteristics, such as texture or type of handling needed. Once you have sorted the items, you are ready to use the equipment. You want to process each category from the sorting separately….
100 Things You Should Know About People: #92 — There Is A Brain Area Dedicated To Perceiving Faces
You are walking down a busy street in a large city and suddenly you see the face of one of your close relatives. Even if you were not expecting to see this person, and even if there are dozens, or even hundreds of people in your visual field, you will immediately recognize this as your…