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Why we make bad decisions
Salon: What role do our surroundings have in the choices we make? Consider the fact that we are more likely to commit a “random” act of kindness toward a person who has already done something
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A weird and wonderful world of discovery
Irish Times: HAVE YOU ever read about a piece of health- related research and wondered what on Earth possessed anyone to ask that question in the first place? There’s often method to the seeming madness
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Winnie-the-Pooh and the Pervasiveness of Egocentric Bias: Why We Are All THAT Sort of Bear
Scientific American: This past week, Winnie-the-Pooh just wouldn’t let me go. Please write about me, he kept whining. And when I told him I’d already written about him last week, he just looked confused. So
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Yana Weinstein
Washington University in St. Louis, USA http://yanaweinstein.com What does your research focus on? I have very broad interests, but most of my research converges on the misperceptions we hold with regards to our cognitive
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You do the math — because that pigeon over there can
msnbc: Pigeons may not be so bird-brained after all, as scientists have found the birds’ ability to understand numbers is on par with that of primates. Previous studies have shown that various animals, from honeybees
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‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ explores brain processes
USA Today: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow is not only a best seller, it’s making many best-books-of-the-year lists, including those from The New York Times and Amazon. It entered USA TODAY’s list at No.
