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Americans Are Terrible at Estimating Income Inequality
The Atlantic Cities: Income inequality is an abstract idea, measurable in many ways. And so perhaps it’s not surprising that Americans are terrible at estimating the true extent of the problem (or how fast it’s
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Food Rituals
BBC: Does performing rituals improve the taste of food? Claudia Hammond investigates. Listen to the whole story: BBC
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Power Anomalies in Testing Mediation David A. Kenny and Charles M. Judd In this article, the authors describe several peculiarities of mediation analysis in which the
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Eyes are better at mental snapshots than cameras, study suggests
CNN: I’ve got hundreds of photos from my recent Europe trip, split between a smartphone and a big camera. A lot are shots of the same thing — my attempt to get the perfect lighting
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New Research: Rituals Make Us Value Things More
Harvard Business Review: Rituals in the workplace can reinforce the behaviors we want, create focus and a sense of belonging, and make change stick. I have gone on and on in the past about the
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Fotos können Erinnerung stören (Photos can interfere with memory)
ORF Austria: Wer Fotos von schönen Momenten im Urlaub macht, will eigentlich die Erinnerung festhalten. Das könnte aber eine Täuschung sein: Laut einer neuen Studie vergessen wir Erlebnisse eher, wenn wir sie fotografieren. Die Studienautorin