If a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.
We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in the society who come out on the bottom.
Today we know that gas as carbon dioxide. Priestley had inadvertently invented a way to create carbonated beverages, but alas, since he was a man of modest means, he didn’t commercialize his invention...
People have a basic desire to feel good about themselves, and we therefore have a tendency to be unconsciously biased in favor of traits similiar to our won, even such seemingly meaningless traits as...
IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. I
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self their inaccessibility is due to the architecture...
When chance is involved, people’s thought processes are often seriously flawed.
Regulations allow for up to ten insect fragments per thirty-one-gram serving.
Probability is the very guide of life
Most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
Along with our responses to them, determine
A thousand years without a bath.
Your amicable words mean nothing if your body seems to be saying something different. —JAMES BORG
When we are in the grasp of illusion – or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea – instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologist...
It is always heartening when a fundamentalist of any religion professes a belief in evolution,
In 1932, after nineteen years of research, Bartlett published his results.
German authorities saw the need for a statute explicitly forbidding anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine,
For while anyone can sit back and point to the bottom line as justification, assessing instead a person's actual knowledge and actual ability takes confidence, thought, good judgement, and, well, guts...
Do we, like the flight instructors, believe that harsh criticism improves our children’s behavior or our employees’ performance?
Paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies—and died younger—than the populations of human foragers who prece...