You expect better performances from attractive people, but when they fail, you are also more likely to forgive them.
You are biased to overestimate the emotional impact of future events.
There is a growing body of work coming out of psychology and cognitive science that says you have no clue why you act the way you do, choose the things you choose, or think the thoughts you think. Ins...
It is not a fallacy to trust the consensus of thousands of researchers on how to interpret the evidence provided by decades of studies.
You want the world to be fair, so you pretend it is.
The researchers discovered that money is indeed a major factor in day-to-day happiness. No surprise there. You need to make a certain amount, on average, to be able to afford food, shelter, clothing,...
In 1970, psychologists Bibb Latane and John Darley created an experiment in which they would drop pencils or coins. Sometimes they would be in a group, sometimes with one other person. They did this s...
The tendency to make poor decisions and ignore odds in favor of your gut feelings is called the affect heuristic.
In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Jokes and movies, comic books and professional wrestling, television shows and news programs—they all present dramatic interpretations of facts and fiction in the format of a narrative for the same re...
One of the stranger facets of consistency bias is how it can be evoked on the spot. If you are primed to believe you are an honest person, you will then act as if you are.
To be less dumb is to see the danger in believing in forces that do not exist and trusting them when you would do better to trust yourself.
You are a story you tell yourself.
If you neglect your personal space and allow chaos and clutter to creep in, it will affect you, and perhaps encourage further neglect. Positive feedback loops should improve your life, not detract fro...
First impressions are difficult to change.
Believing you understand your motivations and desires, your likes and dislikes, is called the introspection illusion. You believe you know yourself and why you are the way you are. You believe this kn...
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When it comes to buying lottery tickets, fearing the West Nile virus, looking for child molesters, and so on, you use the availability heuristic first and the facts second.
You make plans and decisions assuming randomness and chaos are for chumps. The illusion of control is a peculiar thing because it often leads to high self-esteem and a belief your destiny is yours for...
The restaurant employees hoaxed by Officer Scott would later say this was what happened to them.
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