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Does Our Innate Ability to Estimate Numbers Benefit From Education?
Children are born with an innate number sense — the ability to discriminate quickly between different amounts or numbers of objects, even without counting. And research has shown that children who have a more acute
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Conservatism and Product Purchase
The Huffington Post: When you meet new people, there are a few things you can find out about them that seem to say a lot about them. The music people listen to, for example, seems
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What Is The Effect Of Asking Americans To Think About The Greater Good?
NPR: Okay. So is it a problem that the president is saying those two things at once? It might be, Steve, because we actually have many examples of what happens when politicians make appeals to
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Conservatives and liberals drink different beer
Salon: It was probably inevitable, but it’s striking nonetheless. In a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, Vishal Singh of New York University’s Stern School of Business and his colleagues apply an ever-growing body
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In Places Red, Not Blue, a Preference for the Tried and True
The Wall Street Journal: Bringing a new product to market? You’ll have a harder time in conservative parts of the country, a new paper implies. A trio of business professors studied six years of supermarket
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Dans la vie active et en période de crise, évitons les “pseudo-amis” (In life and in times of crisis, avoid the “pseudo-friends”)
Le Monde: L’émergence des réseaux sociaux virtuels, tels Facebook, LinkedIn, Viadeo ou Twitter, a tendance à imposer l’idée que le nombre de ses amis, contacts, “followers”, est un gage de qualité personnelle. Un “sans amis”
