Novelty

Show Notes

You can read the full transcript here.

Are you obsessed with the newest thing, regardless of what that thing is? Perhaps it’s just the novelty that’s really got hold of you. In this episode, Ryan talks about his own experience with novelty, how you might experience it, why it’s actually a good thing sometimes, and a bit about his next brush with novelty in an all-too-cool pair of glasses.

• Music: “Place on Fire” by Creo
• Sparkle sound effect
• Novelty effect
• Novelty preference in infancy
• The Novelty Effect (in Tech)
• What does ‘Novelty’ mean?
• Sensation seeking
• The truth about magpies
• The Hawthorne effect
• Focals by North
• Google Glass

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