The economics and psychology of attention: Can you look at art for 30 minutes?

Dan Connolly, an economist and psychologist, and my head teaching assistant, joins me to talk about ATTENTION. We discuss its psychological and economic principles and describe a 30 minute challenge at the Princeton Art Museum that we hoped would demonstrate to our students some of the properties of attention and would develop their understanding for and enjoyment of their own attentional capacity. by Betsy Levy Paluck, follow and subscribe:    / @fieldnotesonsocialgravity   Dan Connolly's website: https://www.danieljconnolly.com/ 00:00 Intro 01:48 Dan Connolly 02:38 Dan's opinion on the class 05:36 The economics of attention 06:28 Economic principles of attention 08:36 Types of attention 11:43 How much attention is good 13:51 Curiosity and attention 15:18 Expert attention 16:25 Simon's attention prediction 20:55 Art Museum challenge! 24:36 Online vs. in person challenges 27:02 What Dan saw 30:14 What Betsy saw 33:23 Art and attention takeaways 34:51 Drawing as attention technology 36:33 Boredom and marching bands 40:45 Memory curation