by Chad Michael Lawson | Dec 5, 2009 | Blog, Human Psychology, Social Media
Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin. “I was surprised by the...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog, Human Psychology
From an evolutionary perspective, it all harkens back to the skills that women used for gathering plant foods and the skills that men used for hunting meat. The contrast emerges because of the different foraging strategies for hunting and gathering used throughout...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog, Social Media
The key may lie in the motivation of Internet users to email that content to their social network, say researchers from Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University. …. They studied what they call ‘e-mavens’, people who spend a lot of time online,...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Nov 5, 2009 | Blog, Internet Marketing Research
Pretty neat little study that concludes what a lot of advanced internet marketers already know. Either way, it’s always nice to be justified every once in a while: “If, as these data suggest, the cognitive and emotional impact of online content is greatest...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Oct 29, 2008 | Blog, Social Media
OK. So, I Twitter (chadConnects) and I know there are a bunch of different Twitter tools and such out there but I hated having to Google something each time I thought of a Twitter idea someone might have already programmed. So, I just made this list and decided to...