All brains are bards, all selves audiences to the tales of who they are.
Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opp...
Artık firmalar, barlara ve kulüplere gidip alt kültürlerin nelerden hoşlandığını gözlemlemeleri için insanları işe alıyorlar ve buldukları şeyler daha popüler olurken alışveriş merkezlerinin vitrinler...
As the philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Behaviors create attitudes.
Brand loyalty—that nebulous emotional connection people have with certain companies, which turns them into defenders and advocates for corporations who don’t give a shit.
Branding builds on this by giving you the option to create the person you think you are through choosing to align yourself with the mystique of certain products.
Cognitive biases are predicable patterns of thought and behavior that lead you to draw incorrect conclusions.
Did we really put a man on the moon? If you are looking for proof we didn’t, you can find it.
If three men couldn’t see eye to eye on who among them was and was not the real Jesus, your chances of swaying someone on the Internet to trade in his belief system concerning religion, art, wedge iss...
If you were to shuffle a deck and draw out ten cards, the chances of the sequence you drew coming up are in the trillions, no matter what the cards are. If you drew out an ordered suit, it would be as...
If your group includes a person who can hire or fire, groupthink comes into play.
In the end, Alter and Forgas concluded the happier you are, the more likely you will be to seek out ways to delude yourself into maintaining your rosy outlook on life and your own abilities. Sad peopl...
It isn't you don't want to help; you just don't want to help a cheater or do more than a slacker - even if your not helping leads to ruining the game for you and everyone else
Many treatments have turned out over the years to be no better than placebos, and placebos, we have learned, are now known to be one of the strongest anomalies of the mind.
Research by psychologist Steven Sloman and marketing expert Phil Fernbach shows that people who claim to understand complicated political topics such as cap and trade and flat taxes tend to reveal the...
Selling Out THE MISCONCEPTION: Both consumerism and capitalism are sustained by corporations and advertising. THE TRUTH: Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for s...
So the next time you get ready to launch into one hundred reasons why your cell phone or TV or car is better than someone else’s, hesitate. Because you’re not trying to change the other person’s mind—...
THE MISCONCEPTION: Memories are played back like recordings. THE TRUTH: Memories are constructed anew each time from whatever information is currently available, which makes them highly permeable to i...
THE MISCONCEPTION: When you argue, you try to stick to the facts. THE TRUTH: In any argument, anger will tempt you to reframe your opponent’s position.
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