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Archive for the 'Psychology' Category

There is a lot of talk about both surveillance and psychology these days. The following photo and quote taken from Boing Boing.

The quote below is from a recent New York Times Magazine article describing a psychology experiment conducted by Newcastle University in which those conducting the experiments taped alternating photos above an “on your […]

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The psychology of risk perception

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I guess that I’m on a Bruce Schneier kick this week.  My last post was related to an article that he wrote about New York City’s upcoming ability to accept camera phone images and videos in their 911 centers.
Today I’ve been reading and pondering another article by Bruce about how psychology plays into people’s perception […]

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