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Facebook and smartphones: New tools for psychological science research

TechAndComputer (May 18, 2012) — Whether you're an iPerson who can't live without a Mac, a Facebook addict, or a gamer, you know that social media and technology say things about your personality and thought processes. And psychological scientists know it too -- they've started researching how new media and devices both reveal and change our mental states.

Two recent articles in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science , a publicat...

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Mathematics



Mitigating disasters by hunting down Dragon Kings: Forecasting natural or economic disasters by identifying statistical anomalies

TechAndComputer (May 3, 2012) — Professional Dragon King hunter Didier Sornette from the Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, together with his colleague Guy Ouillon, present the many facets of Dragon Kings in a review about to be published in EPJ ST. Their work will appear alongside nineteen other contributions exploring the ways in which this emerging field of statistical analysis could become fu...

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