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What A Former FBI Hostage Negotiator Can Teach Us About The Fiscal Cliff
NPR: The tortuous negotiations involved in the “fiscal cliff” talks are like a chess game. To shed some light on the kinds of negotiation techniques that members of Congress might be using during the talks
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Study: Racial stereotyping linked to creative stagnation
Salon: In an article published in Psychological Science, researchers at Tel Aviv University found that racial stereotyping and creative stagnation have something big in common: categorical thinking. “Although these two concepts concern very different outcomes
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Small Price Differences Can Make Options Seem More Similar, Easing Our Buying Decisions
Some retailers, such as Apple’s iTunes, are known for using uniform pricing in an effort to simplify consumers’ choices and perhaps increase their tendency to make impulse purchases. But other stores, like supermarkets, often have
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Psychology of Compromise: Why Congress Fails
LiveScience: Hyenas do it. Elephants do it. But apparently congressional representatives do not. “It” would be cooperation, which has been little-seen in Washington during the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Despite a deadline they themselves set with
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Racial Essentialism Reduces Creative Thinking By Making People More Closed-Minded
New research suggests that racial stereotypes and creativity have more in common than we might think. In an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researcher Carmit Tadmor of
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To regift or not to regift: Is it ever OK?
TODAY: OK, I’ve done it. And quite frankly, I always feel guilty about regifting. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the present. But sometimes you get something that you really don’t like or can’t use
