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The person who’s best at lying to you is you
In 2008, the psychiatrist Stephen Greenspan published The Annals of Gullibility, a summary of his decades of research into how to avoid being gullible. Two days later, he discovered his financial advisor Bernie Madoff was
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring certainty in advice giving, boundary conditions for growth mindset effects, polygenic scores and criminal offending, and strategic modulation of mind wandering.
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Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?
Thomas Metzinger had his first out-of-body experience when he was nineteen. He was on a ten-week meditation retreat in the Westerwald, a mountainous area near his home, in Frankfurt. After a long day of yoga
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“You’re no genius”: Her father’s shutdowns made Angela Duckworth a world expert on grit
Angela Duckworth is the world’s leading expert on “grit,” the much-hyped ingredient in personal success. As Duckworth defines it, grit is passion and sustained persistence applied toward long-term achievement, with no particular concern for rewards or recognition along
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Spot Fake News By Making It
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Sander van der Linden of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab about his online game which tries to teach players about fake news by making them produce it. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST
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Estes Workshop and 7th Annual Mid-West Cognitive Science Conference
Estes Workshop and 7th Annual Mid-West Cognitive Science Conference May 12th-15th, 2018 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Estes Workshop Co-Sponsored by: The Association for Psychological Science The Psychonomic Society Conference Co-sponsored by: The Cognitive Science Program
