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Winnie-the-Pooh and the Pervasiveness of Egocentric Bias: Why We Are All THAT Sort of Bear
Scientific American: This past week, Winnie-the-Pooh just wouldn’t let me go. Please write about me, he kept whining. And when I told him I’d already written about him last week, he just looked confused. So
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The Mechanics of Choice
Hardly a minute goes by in our lives when we don’t make them. Decisions can be as small as our choices of words or what to have for lunch, and they can be as big
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Hal E. Hershfield
Stern School of Business, New York University, USA http://people.stern.nyu.edu/hhershfi/ What does your research focus on? Broadly, I study the ways that thinking about time can transform the emotions people feel and alter the judgments and
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Be YOUR Motivation
As you draw up your list of New Year’s Resolutions for 2012, remember to set goals that are really important to you. In this video from Eco-mobilite.tv, psychological scientist Maarten Vansteenkiste explains why autonomous motivation
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Psychological need drives prejudice in humans: Study
Yahoo India: A deep psychological need drives prejudice, linked to a particular way of thinking, says a study. People who want to make quick and firm decisions, shorn of ambiguity, also generalise about others, said
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‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ explores brain processes
USA Today: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow is not only a best seller, it’s making many best-books-of-the-year lists, including those from The New York Times and Amazon. It entered USA TODAY’s list at No.