The Distorted Mirror

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Cyberpsychology is an emerging field that examines the ways in which technology influences human behavior. On today's show we discuss what happens to our purchasing habits when psychology, sociology, and 21st century tech collide. Here's a preview: [1:30] Who you think you are is influenced by others (hello, looking glass self!) [8:30] It's human nature to compare and compete: Here's how and why we internalize social media messaging [16:00] 3 reasons why shoppers feel better when they purchase items that contribute to self-repair [20:00] 2 ways dopamine and online algorithms work together and entice us to buy Resources mentioned/Further reading: The Digital Looking Glass Self (via Psychology Today) Buying: The Effect on Self-Worth Feelings and Consumer Well-Being Why TikTok Made Us Buy It (via Psychology Today) Stay Free App This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0	Well, hello there and welcome to another Friday episode, favorite episode drop. If you've been
0:07.2	following along for the last five weeks, you already know that I have counted down my top five
0:13.7	favorite interviews in the last 500 episodes. So many of you have written to me and said you've
0:19.5	really enjoyed hearing those top
0:21.6	five. And I am not a rule follower. I like to break rules. So I'm giving you one more. So it's more of a top
0:28.7	six. The previous five episodes I dropped were all interviews. And this episode I'm dropping today
0:35.1	is my all-time favorite solo episode.
0:38.5	It's all about the ways in which technology influences human behavior.
0:44.5	This episode is in the top spot because so many of you, I can't even count, wrote to me and said,
0:52.1	holy moly, this episode really changed the way you
0:56.1	think about technology. And many of you parents wrote to me and said, this was a must
1:02.7	listen episode for your teenagers. So here it is. I promise this will be the last top episode that I drop on a Friday for a while at least.
1:14.0	Enjoy this episode titled The Distorted Mirror. It originally dropped in February of 2023.
1:21.8	Enjoy. Hi, listeners. Welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian, and you're listening to episode 343 of
1:29.8	Sustainable Minimalists, a twice-weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.
1:36.3	On today's show, we are discussing the ways in which social media influences are purchasing
1:41.7	behaviors. Now, I should say right off the bat, when I set out to
1:45.8	create this episode, I was interested in learning more about the ways in which subtle marketing
1:51.7	cues enticed us to buy online. But as I researched, I learned quite quickly that the real
2:00.5	crux of the issue is the newly emerging area of
2:04.8	cyber psychology. Cyber psychology examines the influence of technology on behavior. And so today
2:12.2	we're not talking so much about influencer marketing, let's say today. Instead, we are going
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