Sentences with phrase «more of a social experiment»

And it's not that I'd typically care anyway, but it was meant to be more of a social experiment.

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They've often «done more» of everything — experimented with more types of content marketing, become among the first to document their content marketing strategy and use social media platforms to distribute content, etc. — thus, we consider tech marketers «early adopters.»

Right now, marketers still appear to be investing more time and resources into social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, but as organic reach continues to decline (more on this below), we'll see a greater number of marketers experiment with messaging apps as a way to connect with their audience.

STOCKTON — A consortium of policy experts, researchers and academics has awarded $ 1 million to Stockton to fund an experiment that aims to assess the social benefits of providing a guaranteed monthly income for one or more years to a tiny segment of the city's residents, Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday...

What makes them wary, however, is the even more illiberal desire to inject the views and interests of progressive social causes into the methodology of science itself (hypothesis formation, experiment, analysis) and perhaps even into its conclusions.

Europe's experiment in social Darwinism killed more People over the last century than all of Christianity for all time.

Even more revealing: An experiment published in the Journal of Social Science and Clinical Psychology found that students who were faring poorly in college did even worse following efforts to boost their self - esteem.

He added, «Freedom of education, by means of vouchers for parents so they can choose how and where education dollars should be spent, is a prime example of a powerful conservative solution to both fiscal and social ills directly related to outdated liberal social experiments that are more socialist than American.»

The researchers, led by Andrew Whiten of the University of St Andrews, made the discovery by combining social network analysis with more traditional social learning experiments.

«Our experiment does not reveal the psychology behind people's decisions,» Aral says, «but an intuitive explanation is that people are more skeptical of negative social influence.

The neurodevelopmental and social backdrop of early adolescence may promote risk - taking behavior, 25 and neural plasticity may sensitize the adolescent brain to the effects of nicotine.31 Hence, adolescent never smokers exposed to nicotine - rich e-cigarette aerosols and the pleasant sensations associated with vaping could be more liable to experiment with other nicotine - containing products, including combustible tobacco.

Why online love is more likely to last Internet couples tend to be a better fit than those who meet by traditional means, according to new research Web - based research experiments related to social psychology Other Listings of Online Studies: Psychological Research on the Net (extensive links

2017's festival also reinforced its status as the home of politically charged cinema with a line - up that addressed the refugee crisis (and a bold new step into the world of virtual reality cinema), dystopian social experiments, mental health, and AIDS activists: there were more than enough fine caliber films to chew on for this year's audiences.

Beginning in 1961 at Yale, renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) wielded the baton on a series of psychological experiments in which subjects believed they were administering electrical shocks to an amiable and innocent subject, a stranger, in... Read more»

The lessons of the past half century, and especially of the Great Society's mostly failed experiments in social policy, can help us think more clearly about the means by which this end could be pursued.

So, yes, I'm exploring some of the social networks, and I'm toying with texting instead of emailing, and I'm twittering, and I'm keeping up with everything that's invented, as it's invented, and I think anyone who's seriously contemplating a book promotion camaign has to be experimenting with more media outlets, and more types of communication, than the old tried - and - true venues.

The system resembles a more competition - focused version of social reading startup Wattpad in some ways, but this is very much commerce driven, whereas Wattpad is about providing a free publishing platform for entire works first, and only recently started dabbling in crowdsourcing with its crowdfunding book publishing experiments.

In this installment in the series, nerdy grad student - slash - recluse Hanna Bergstrom is practically forced by her own family to agree to get out more, experiment with dating, build a social life, and essentially get her nose out of a book.

They cover the most political and fraught subjects: the future of Amazon and other book retailers, what to look for from a Random House and Penguin merger, what might work as a strategy for the other general publishers, and what to expect from illustrated books in digital and the various social reading experiments, and much more...

Today, Nesta, Beijing - based social network, Douban and The Literary Platform are launching an experiment that will propel the work of... Read more»

This game is appearing to be less of a sim and more of a social (or anti-social) experiment in the form of a game.

In recent years, Rodriguez - Diaz has experimented with aspects of installation, using found objects and injecting a more direct social content into his work.

Not so much programming, but more along the lines of marketing, advertising, keeping readers interested, keeping up with social media, and being prepared to learn new things on the fly (we're just now experimenting with Periscope and Snapchat).

Mergel has organized numerous exhibitions and artist projects at the ICA, including: Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video (2009), an examination of the complex dynamics of social relationships featuring works by Yael Bartana, Phil Collins, and Javier Téllez; Tara Donovan (2008 — 2009), the sculptor's first museum survey, for which Mergel served as co-curator with Nicholas Baume and coordinated the national tour; and Accumulations (2007 — 2008), an ICA Collection exhibition that considered how artists assemble discrete elements into more than the sum of their parts, with works by Paul Chan, Josiah McElheny, and Cornelia Parker, among oSocial Experiments in Video (2009), an examination of the complex dynamics of social relationships featuring works by Yael Bartana, Phil Collins, and Javier Téllez; Tara Donovan (2008 — 2009), the sculptor's first museum survey, for which Mergel served as co-curator with Nicholas Baume and coordinated the national tour; and Accumulations (2007 — 2008), an ICA Collection exhibition that considered how artists assemble discrete elements into more than the sum of their parts, with works by Paul Chan, Josiah McElheny, and Cornelia Parker, among osocial relationships featuring works by Yael Bartana, Phil Collins, and Javier Téllez; Tara Donovan (2008 — 2009), the sculptor's first museum survey, for which Mergel served as co-curator with Nicholas Baume and coordinated the national tour; and Accumulations (2007 — 2008), an ICA Collection exhibition that considered how artists assemble discrete elements into more than the sum of their parts, with works by Paul Chan, Josiah McElheny, and Cornelia Parker, among others.

As Justice Brandeis explained more than 70 years ago, «it is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.»»

While Facebook is the greatest ongoing social science experiment of all time, and that data is certainly valuable to academics in many ways, did the users involved truly and knowingly consent to participation in studies into whether they get more jealous after they change their Facebook status to «In a Relationship»?

The study, published in a 2006 issue of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, showed that participants in the experiment told an average of 2.19 The widespread online availability of background information makes it even more risky to lie in job interviews.

Some heterosexual women report kissing other women as part of the college social scene or for men's attention, while others do so to experiment or explore potential same - sex desires.1 A 2012 study found that both women and men perceive women who kiss other women in heterosexual spaces (for example, bars that heterosexual individuals frequent) as more promiscuous than those who kiss a man, and that women and men perceive such women as more likely to be heterosexual than bisexual or lesbian.2 In some ways, this last finding may suggest that women and men do not always perceive female - female kissing as necessarily an expression of women's same - sex desire.