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The Psychology Behind Headphones

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thinking-about-it-way-to-hard dept.

pvt_medic writes "The BBC has an interesting article today about portable music players and personal space. The article is on the research that Dr Michael Bull has done on portable music players. He analyzes them as a "tool whereby users manage space, time and the boundaries around the self." This article goes on to analyze the social and psychological aspects related to listening to music in public with headphones. A good quick read for those who do this."

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  1. the psychosys of corepirate nazi megalomania by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's all for won out here/there?

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators..... you can almost hear the lights coming up?

    tell 'em robbIE?

  2. Just sounds to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    like a load of Bull.

  3. Very nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A real good adaptation of the Batman troll. I like your style.

  4. 07d dud3 j0u 5ux0r5! by Dogtanian · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please believe me, kids, you will be thirty years old one day, and how well you are able to hear at that time depends very much on how well you treat your delicate, sensitive ears today.

    Yeah, like... anyone that old's only going to use them to listen to shitty old people's music. So it's probably a good thing that you can't hear it. OTOH, maybe the music companies figured that out and decided to sell all their shitty music to over 30s.

    Yes (a) This is a blatant troll and (b) I'm closer to that age than I'd like to be. Dammit.

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  5. bloody new age claptrap by CAIMLAS · · Score: 1, Troll

    so, were's the scientifical evidence?

    I'm so bloody tired of bleeding heart educational elite that consider social sciences real science. They aren't. Can you consuct economy studies in a controlled environment? No? Well then, it's not a science. Can you conduct natural response studies on humans? No? Well then, it's not science.

    It might be a discipline, but stop being a fool and passing your limited study off as a real science for the sake of funding and/or acceptance. It's dastardly and insulting.

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  6. Re:So true. by flint · · Score: 0, Troll

    This thread's amateurish psych analysis is beginning to grate. All of the billions who have lived and died without ever having been on a subway can't possibly have found happiness without daily verbal interaction with strangers.

    Yep life is better on a subway.