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The Cost of Efficiency: Exploring Doubling-Back Aversion
Podcast: Why do we avoid retracing our steps—even when it helps us reach our goals faster? Under the Cortex explores.
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To Win Trust and Admiration, Fix Your Microphone
Like hundreds of millions of others around the world, Brian Scholl, a psychologist and cognitive scientist at Yale University, spent much of the COVID pandemic on Zoom. But during one digital faculty meeting, he found himself
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Which Knot Is Stronger? Humans Aren’t Great Judges
Humans are pretty good at guessing whether a towering stack of dishes in the sink will topple over or where a pool ball will go when a cue hits it. We evolved this kind of
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Radical Acceptance Can Help Build Emotional Resiliency
… A growing body of research suggests that the more you fight against your pain, the stronger and louder it’s going to get. Marsha Linehan, a retired University of Washington psychology professor and creator of Dialectical Behavior
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Crowding Out Falsehoods
Psychological scientists are harnessing the biases and expertise of imperfect individuals to enhance the wisdom of crowds.
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A Tribute to Daniel Kahneman
APS Fellow Elke Weber offers a special tribute to the Nobel laureate who pioneered the field of behavioral economics.
