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But from five onwards, it can distinguish between its own knowledge of the world (where the ball actually is because it saw Ann hide it there) and someone else’s knowledge

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

One projective test that has gained support from researchers, however, is the Picture Story Exercise (or PSE), which has been used in research for more than fifty years. It requires the person being assessed to tell a story about a series of pictures. The psychologist uses the drama the person creates—and the wishes, thoughts, and feelings of the c

Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

Azy Barak, Michael Fenichel, John Grohol, Robert Hsiung, Storm King, Gary Stofle, and Kimberly Young,

John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric

Scraping the Social: “We are unknown to ourselves—and with good reason.” Friedrich Nietzsche—“Even the retards are starting to figure it out.” (comment)—“In data we trust.” Priceonomics—“The Internet fails to scale gracefully.” Chris Ellis—“I want to be surprised by my own bot”—“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Leona... See more

You are inquisitive, prospective, and exploratory. And to understand you, we need to know the personal constructs through which you interpret objects, events, other people, and yourself.

Brian R. Little • Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality (TED Books)

The content of someone’s identity depends on the broader group in which they grew up, and particularly on dominant communal notions, the ‘narrative’ shared by the group. Those notions are invariably moral in nature, consisting largely of norms and values that determine the way we view ourselves and others. They are reflected in mores or ethics and,

Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society

Our Pseudonymous Selves

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Andrew McLuhan on LinkedIn: In other words, ‘the medium is the message.’ We are the sum of our…

Andrew McLuhan linkedin.com

“in this version though, a lot of your story is written by others. You write your autofiction about yourself and others write their fictions about you, often anonymously, on Substacks, subreddits, messageboards like Lolcow, on Twitter and Instagram and podcasts too, and this makes things different from what has come before. The lives of these perso