{"id":13791,"date":"2025-05-08T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13791"},"modified":"2025-06-07T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:02:03","slug":"like-olution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/08\/like-olution\/","title":{"rendered":"Like-olution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/humans-evolved-to-like-likes-b3ace074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Humans Evolved to Like \u2018Likes\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The thumbs-up icon became the most used feature on social media by tapping into our deepest psychological instincts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-77041480?width=700&amp;height=420\" alt=\"an ape giving a thumbs up to a man looking at his phone with a thumbs up icon in a speech bubble.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>ILLUSTRATION:\u00a0PETER ARKLE<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Statistically speaking, you\u2019ve probably already pressed a\u00a0like\u00a0button several times today. If you\u2019re under 20 years old, even more. Perhaps you recently posted on Instagram or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/META\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and have been eagerly checking as the\u00a0like\u00a0count rises on your phone\u2014each new\u00a0like\u00a0accompanied by a buzz in your pocket and a flutter in your heart. But why do we\u00a0like\u00a0the\u00a0like\u00a0button so much that it almost immediately became the most used feature on social media\u2014and by now is at the fingertips of the majority of humans on the planet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, neuroscientist Lauren Sherman and colleagues set out to study that question. They asked 58 young people, aged 13 to 21, to go through their Instagram accounts and select several photos they had posted recently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/humans-evolved-to-like-likes-b3ace074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal Humans Evolved to Like \u2018Likes\u2019 The thumbs-up icon became the most used feature on social media by tapping into our deepest psychological instincts. By\u00a0Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson Statistically speaking, you\u2019ve probably already pressed a\u00a0like\u00a0button several times today. If you\u2019re under 20 years old, even more. Perhaps you recently posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}