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Why Smart People Are Stupid
The New Yorker: Here’s a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? The vast
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From Karen to Katie —Using Baby Names to Understand Cultural Evolution
From Top 40 hits to baby names, styles change and fashions evolve over time. While the latest fad may seem arbitrary, new research suggests that basic psychological processes can explain why some things become popular.
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Warum die Krebsfrüherkennung überschätzt wird
Der Spiegel: Was beeinflusst stärker, ob man ein medizinisches Verfahren für nützlich oder schädlich hält: eine Reihe von Zahlen oder die Geschichte eines Kollegen, dessen Freund durch die Therapie gerettet wurde? Psychologen betonen, dass Menschen
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Why People Stick with Cancer Screening, Even When It Causes Harm
TIME: The data on PSA testing to detect prostate cancer has long been shaky — so much so that the discoverer of PSA (or prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme made by the prostate) himself decried the
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Reduce Dumb Decisions by Thinking in a Foreign Language
ABC News: Forget about dropping that Korean or Spanish or Japanese lesson, and not just because sticking with it might make it easier to navigate a polyglot world. It can pay off in other ways
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Timing Can Affect Whether Women and Minorities Face Discrimination
Timing can affect whether females and minorities experience discrimination — says a study published today in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Emails were sent from fictional prospective doctoral students to
