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Get It Over With: People Choose More Difficult Tasks to Get Jobs Done More Quickly
Most of us are well-acquainted with procrastination, but new research suggests that “pre-crastination”—hurrying to complete a task as soon as possible—may also be a common phenomenon.
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Mining the Unconscious
The sentences that you are reading are in plain English. They are short. They contain simple words. And yet, while you read them you entertain no other thought or feeling (unless your mind is wandering).
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The Mental Strain of Making Do With Less
The New York Times: Diets don’t just reduce weight, they can reduce mental capacity. In other words, dieting can make you dumber. Understanding why this is the case can illuminate a range of experiences, including
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Being Bored At Work Could Boost Creativity, Study Suggests
The Huffington Post: We’ve got some surprising news, workers of the world: Being bored at work could actually be . New research presented at the annual meeting of the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational
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Don’t knock daydreamers, they could be onto something: Great ideas come after some ‘time out’, study shows
The Daily Mail: From Einstein to Newton, some of the best ideas and most important scientific breakthroughs have been dreamt up during a little ‘down time’. And in news that will cheer bored office workers
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Daydreaming really is the key to solving complex problems
The Telegraph: Daydreaming really is the key to solving complex problems, a new study has found. Some of the most important scientific breakthroughs ever made – by everyone from Einstein to Newton – came about
