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Gorillas in the Lung
The Scientist: Anyone who’s taken an introductory psychology course in the last 20 years likely remembers the “invisible gorilla” video. The video shows a group of kids engaged in a ball-passing game while, mostly unnoticed
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Ein Gorilla in der Lunge (A gorilla in the lungs)
Suddeutsche Zeitung: Das Offensichtliche trägt ein zotteliges Kostüm, stellt sich in die Mitte des Bildes und trommelt sich auf die Brust. Und was passiert? Die meisten Probanden dieses längst klassischen Tests von 1999 übersehen die
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Why College Students Make Better Decisions Than Intelligence Agents
Yahoo: Who would you trust with the lives of hundreds of people: federal intelligence agents or a bunch of college students? At Cornell University, psychologist Valerie Reyna wanted to test whether intelligence agents were susceptible
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Remembering Alice M. Isen
Alice M. Isen was a true scientific path-breaker. In an era of scientific psychology that was just overcoming the blinders of radical behaviorism to discover cognition, she nearly single-handedly initiated the modern scientific study of
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Study Finds Spatial Skill Is Early Sign of Creativity
The New York Times: A gift for spatial reasoning — the kind that may inspire an imaginative child to dismantle a clock or the family refrigerator — may be a greater predictor of future creativity
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Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!
The New York Times: Right now, six people are living in a nearly windowless, white geodesic dome on the slopes of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano. They sleep in tiny rooms, use no more than eight
