3. Is it possible to turn phone rings
into
a reason to
:)?
Empirically,
yes!
Yes it is.
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4. Check it:
Anytime you hear a phone:
:)
[Breathing in I calm my body,
Breathing out I smile.]
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5. Ten 20-something year olds
4 Days
+114 smiles
Joy Creation
[and +3.3 smiles per person per day]
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6. Not important right now
You want to know how we did it.
Did what?
Added a new
behavior (smiling)
to an existing
trigger (phone ring)
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7. Let me repeat that
We added a
new behavior
(smiling) to an
existing trigger
(phone ring)
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8. A day in the Trial
The participants were texted 3 times per day
• 11 am - “Visualize a phone ringing later in the
day. Smile at the ring.”
• 2 pm - “:)”
• 9 pm - “How many times did you smile @
rings today?”
Participants texted back a number.
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9. Ten 20-something year olds
4 Days
+114 smiles
Joy Creation
[and +3.3 smiles per person per day]
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20. The
dishes
pile up.
For 9 months.
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21. How do we get though this accumulation
of interpersonal kitchen scuz to connect
with our friends?
@#$@ who never cleans his oatmeal
pot
?
Friend!
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22. Babies!
No. That would be unethical.
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31. Stats
• 28 users (~17 active users)
• 100 replies to 12 posts.
• Approximately 1000 words in response to
each post
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32. Speculations
• Habits of perception may offer very large
shifts w/r/t calming.
• Targeting existing, strong networks (i.e.
family/highly connected social groups) with
prosocial interventions is +++ good.
• Leaving open the possibility of heroic
participation, especially when the users are
highly motivated and capable, leave room
for outrageous outcomes.
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33. Science!
• 1) Lishner, David A., Luis V. Oceja, E. L. Stocks, and Kirstin Zaspel. "The
Effect of Infant-like Characteristics on Empathic Concern for Adults in
Need." Motivation and Emotion 32.4 (2008): 270-77. Web.
• 2) Berry, Diane S., and Leslie Z. McArthur. "Some Components and
Consequences of a Babyface." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
48.2 (1985): 312-23. Print.
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34. What if?
• Stop lights were wondrous?
• Your project teams saw each other as
children?
• We taught children the abstract skill of re-
mapping stressors into triggers for joy,
love, and calm?
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35. [Meta] - Words The blog is
currently private
• It definitely helped lower my stress while I was working on my term papers, etc.
• Baby pictures set up a nice trajectory. (WHOA, baby Reed was awesome, Reed right
now is awesome, old man Reed is going to be awesome!)
• "Shining Like the Sun" gave me a more balanced sense of my friends as beings in time.
It helped to reduce the anxiety I feel associated with leaving them.
• It may be an unfortunately easy tendency to criticize and condemn your friends and
neighbors for their human faults on a day-to-day basis, but it's so fortunately easy to
love a child, and to see that we all come from that place of open, joyful, innocence that
dissolves all negativity.
• It has filled me with love and admiration for my fellow Ithakans; it helps me ponder and
appreciate their past trajectories and their future ones, and brings excitement to think
how said trajectories will intersect in the future.
In reflection, I find some calmness and resolve at the prospect of Ithaka 1.0's dispersal
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