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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.
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Klammern am Status quo
bild der wissenschaft: Viele Menschen rechtfertigen ein bestehendes System, auch wenn eigentlich ersichtlich ist, dass es falsch, ungerecht, korrupt oder einfach zum Scheitern verurteilt ist. Um diesem Phänomen auf den Grund zu gehen, haben die
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How We Assign Blame for Corporate Crimes
Yahoo! Canada: Whether the public blames Wall Street or its bankers for bad decisions depends a lot on the group’s level of cohesion as well as its mindfulness, or ability to “think,” suggests a new
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For Creative People, Cheating Comes More Easily
NPR: Five months after the implosion of Enron, Feb. 12, 2002, the company’s chief executive, Ken Lay, finally stood in front of Congress and the world, and placed his hand on a Bible. At that
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Creativity Linked to Rule Bending
Scientific American: Why do cheaters cheat? Perhaps because they can think up original ways to avoid work: a new study finds that creativity is tied to a willingness to cheat. The work is in the
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Why Creative Types May Be More Likely to Cheat
TIME: Creative people think “outside the box,” a gift of psychological flexibility that, it turns out, may also apply to their ethics, according to the latest research from the American Psychological Association. Creative types, in
