andrewducker (
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2011
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03
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31
12:00 pm
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http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2369069.html
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Interesting Links for 31-3-2011
Samsung mass produces transparent LCD panels
(tags:
lcd
displays
awesome
)
Google tightening control over Android licensees. (Open Sourced code still open though)
(tags:
android
google
mobile_phones
)
Death anxiety prompts people to believe in intelligent design, reject evolution, study suggests
(tags:
death
anxiety
science
religion
creationism
evolution
)
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience
(tags:
design
psychology
AngryBirds
ux
ui
games
)
LiveJournal has undergone the most powerful DDoS-attack in its history
(tags:
livejournal
ddos
)
Why Cats Are Not Doctors
(tags:
cats
medicine
funny
)
When depressed, women lose their ability to judge their partner's feelings (men don't seem to).
(tags:
empathy
psychology
relationships
women
gender
)
Bacteria in the gut may influence brain development
(tags:
bacteria
br
brain
neuroscience
development
)
Official Google Blog: +1’s: the right recommendations right when you want them—in your search results
(tags:
google
search
social
)
Mononoke Hime (1980) - The Original Miyazaki Book
(tags:
manga
translation
miyazaki
anime
comics
japan
art
)
Possibly the coolest dice in the world. I want!
(tags:
dice
games
)
Study finds surprising gender differences related to sexual harassment
(tags:
gender
harrassment
)
Whitehall IT chief attacks Labour's record - ordering projects to "sound sexy".
(tags:
computers
government
labour
)
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nameandnature
2011-03-31 11:34 am (UTC)
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Death anxiety prompts people to believe in intelligent design, reject evolution, study suggests
This seems to come under the heading of
Terror Management Theory
.
In similar experiments, priming with thoughts of death leads to worldview defence reactions in people who believe in an interventionalist God: see
Richard Beck's blog post
, part of his series
The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience
.
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andrewducker
2011-03-31 12:12 pm (UTC)
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Cheers, that was fascinating.
(Particularly because seeing someone do these experiments while being a committed Christian feels weird to me, and I approve of anything that leaves me feeling odd.)
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This seems to come under the heading of Terror Management Theory.
In similar experiments, priming with thoughts of death leads to worldview defence reactions in people who believe in an interventionalist God: see Richard Beck's blog post, part of his series The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience.
no subject
(Particularly because seeing someone do these experiments while being a committed Christian feels weird to me, and I approve of anything that leaves me feeling odd.)