THE MISCONCEPTION: You procrastinate because you are lazy and can’t manage your time well. THE TRUTH: Procrastination is fueled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking...
THE MISCONCEPTION: When your emotions run high, people can look at you and tell what you are thinking and feeling. THE TRUTH: Your subjective experience is not observable, and you overestimate how muc...
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.
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...
Self-esteem is mostly self-delusion, but it serves a purpose. You are biologically driven to think highly of yourself in order to avoid stagnation. If you were to stop and truly examine your faults an...
Scientists tell us we all come from monkeys, and that’s why I homeschool, this person is using a straw man, because science doesn’t say we all come from monkeys.
Power breeds certainty, and certainty has no clout against the unpredictable, whether you are playing poker or running a country.
Piyango bileti satın almaya giderken kaza geçirip bir otomobilin içinde ölme ihtimaliniz, ikramiye kazanma ihtimalinizden yüksektir.
People who use the number of friends they have on Facebook as a metric of their social standing are fooling themselves. You can share videos of fainting goats with hundreds of acquaintances and thousa...
People who take credit for the times when things go their way but who put the blame on others when they stumble or fall are generally happier people.
It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness.
In the 1960s, it took months before someone figured out they could sell tie-dyed shirts and bell bottoms to anyone who wanted to rebel. In the 1990s, it took weeks to start selling flannel shirts and...
In 2008, Lawrence Williams and John Bargh conducted a study where they had people meet strangers. One group held a cup of warm coffee, and the other group held iced coffee. Later, when asked to rate t...
If a politician can come across as likable—as nice, genuine, and friendly—she’s won most of her votes already. That initial appraisal will spread and elevate all other appraisals. Gaffes will be forgi...
Expensive wine is like anything else that is expensive: The expectation it will taste better actually makes it taste better.
Evrimsel olarak daima kesin olan bahsi oynamak mantıklıdır; atalarınızın emekliliği ya da kalp krizini düşünmesi gerekmiyordu. Beyniniz torunlarınızla tanışmanın muhtemel olmadığı bir dünyada evrimleş...
As comedian Tim Minchin says in his song Storm, Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine.
Artık firmalar, barlara ve kulüplere gidip alt kültürlerin nelerden hoşlandığını gözlemlemeleri için insanları işe alıyorlar ve buldukları şeyler daha popüler olurken alışveriş merkezlerinin vitrinler...
In experiments at Baylor University where people were given Coke and Pepsi in unmarked cups and then hooked up to a brain scanner, the device clearly showed a certain number of them preferred Pepsi wh...