James McQuivey
@jmcquivey
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Consumer behaviorist, employee psychology analyst. And I literally wrote the book on Digital Disruption. Tweets are mine, not employer's.
Boston area
Joined November 2007
Anybody who gets to know me will eventually hear this rant. Maslow's hierarchy is COMPLETELY MADE UP. Conjured from thin air, pulled out of his orifice, however you want to say it. It is not empirical. It doesn't mean anything. Stop using it. Stop it.
@datepsych Really doesn't matter what you put where because this hierarchy was completely made up, has no basis in empirical observation and is basically a pre-digital meme superbly preserved thanks to college courses endlessly repeating it as fact.
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@MsMelChen That's fair, maybe it's like my own experience with advertising. I technically don't like it at all, but it doesn't bother me to ignore it or skip it. Maybe it's just a personality thing
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@nycexpatmom I am not able to verify this independently, but evidently it's not about covid, it's that she's not vaccinated for anything. And transplant policy requires basic vaccinations since children without any vaccines are more susceptible to death from contagious disease
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@selentelechia @ThePurpIeKnight pet causes among therapists and psychologists is most definitely a thing, good you learned that early, I guess
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@KTmBoyle Okay, Al Gore was probably close on intelligence and definitely articulate. Just wrong on some major things.
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@paulg But it's a thing now so we will see this happen every 4 years like clockwork. That's the way it works.
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Not surprising, actually. Easily provable in your personal life, easily observable in the lives of others. We've been discussing this for decades. @CHSommers wrote One Nation Under Therapy 20 years ago. The fact that a smart guy like Adam Grant thinks this is surprising is one of many evidences showing how far from reality modern intellectualism has strayed.
Surprisingly, ignoring worries can improve mental health. Evidence: After practice blocking out fears, people were less anxious—and less depressed 3 months later—especially if they had high anxiety or PTSD. Not all concerns demand attention. Some thoughts are worth dismissing.
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RT @AdamMGrant: Surprisingly, ignoring worries can improve mental health. Evidence: After practice blocking out fears, people were less an…
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I've lived nearly six decades on this planet. And I can promise you that every decade this topic comes back up and the proponents always believe they are "a movement" on the edge of changing everything. 10,000 people, for reference, can't even fill half of most college athletic arenas. Feels like believing they're more important in the culture than they really are is part of what gets them excited.
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What a spectacularly unnecessary shot in the foot this comment was. I saw the post-game interviews with the Eagles' coach and QB. Both thanked God. They didn't credit him. There is a meaningful difference and understanding that is a first step to humility.
Curious that talented athletes frequently credit God when they win, but we rarely see them blame God when they lose.
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Can relate. Got accused of strange things, including that I had done a painting of a cat "by numbers" because I couldn't have just freehanded an acrylic painting without any prior art classes. Got accused of cheating in 5th grade math because I did long division in my head (not always correctly, to be fair), and that I didn't really read the Hobbit in 5th grade but lied about it for a book report. To show them, I read The Silmarillion. They weren't impressed, they didn't know what it was!
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A new twist on the married happiness topic: It is consistently the case that married women are happier on average than singles. But singles have been led to believe the opposite!
New Survey: "Most Single Women Believe They Are Happier than Married Women" Data: Married women, esp. married moms, are markedly happier than single women in 🇺🇸
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@LauraRbnsn I'm surprised to see the suggestion that people would take it as anything other than incisive satire. I'll assume there are some, because you suggest such. But I don't know that people who would read it that way will be "owned" by your reading.
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Love the retail brands on the bottom of that ad, tbh. More vanity, for sure.
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