Contextualizing Human Psychology

The study of psychology has been handicapped by the difficulty of measuring how individual traits affect interactions with the surrounding social structures and how this interaction affects both individual life outcomes and group characteristics. With the advent of continuous, fine-grain data from c...

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Main Author: Pentland, Alex (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 2021-03-31T13:50:56Z.
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