If you’re confused by your feelings, here’s some good (?) news: researchers from the renowned Berkeley have identified 27 categories of emotions: admiration, adoration, aesthetic appreciation, amusement, anger, anxiety, awe, awkwardness, boredom, calmness, confusion, craving, disgust, empathetic pain, entrancement, excitement, fear, horror, interest, joy, nostalgia, relief.
digital technology encodes social relationships
The following article was published on October 13, 2023, in the Chinese Social Sciences review, signed by Zhang Shuqin (associate professor at the School of Sociology and Psychology at the …
anxiety generators
When Lauren Antonoff, the newly appointed CEO of the Life360 tracking app, recently described the company as part of the “anxiety economy,” it sounded like a phrase that didn’t make …
mechanical love, mechanical despair
When at the end of 2013 the movie Her by Spike Jonze was released in cinemas (with Joaquin Phoenix in the role of a lonely writer and the voice of …
It cares for me, therefore I feel attached
You may not have a home robot yet (vacuum cleaner?) – but 20 years ago you didn’t have a “smart phone” either; you didn’t even know such a remote control …
Sell yourself (by the kilo)
It’s not enough to be a recognized “persona” in the vast cyberspace… It’s not enough to be an influencer, youtuber, tiktoker or anything similar… It’s not enough to be paid …
non-compliance is the disease… (behaviorism as a lancet…)
“You are not healthy… you should behave like sick people”. Greek (and not only) state and experts – 2020 “The new model that is person-centered, behavior-oriented and not disease-oriented – …
Green carpets
…If we truly want to achieve climate neutrality, we must change our behavior in all these aspects of life. This is because the appropriate technologies that would allow us to …
Make me a summary
Amazon has long been notorious for its harsh anti-union practices and the working conditions that prevail in its warehouses. Its latest achievement? According to an internal company document that leaked, …
Collapse of the relationship
It could be something from “the strange world.” It doesn’t seem to be a social trend with majority prospects yet. Or, at least, Akihido Kondo is a pioneer within a …
AI emotions
Her is a 2013 film that is formally categorized as “science fiction” but perhaps should be considered technologically dystopian. The protagonist Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) develops an intense emotional, bodiless …
parasites, theories about parasites, parasitic sciences and policies (guidelines for the staging of a health threat)
The “theory of pathogen pressure” concerning (human) values or sociality is a recent, comprehensive approach to human social psychology and behavior. As an ecological and evolutionary theory of human cultural …