W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
The best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency.
Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.
La Ley de Especies en Peligro generó un incentivo similarmente perverso. Cuando los terratenientes temen que su propiedad sea un hábitat atractivo para un animal en peligro de extinción, o incluso un...
Yes, but . . . think about it for a moment. Why did it take so much effort to persuade doctors to do what they have known to do since the age of Semmelweis? Why was it so hard to change their behavior...
The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong.
When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of glo...
The fear created by commercial experts may not quite rival the fear created by terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan, but the principle is the same.
Un estudio que abarca cincuenta años de los Nobel de Química y Física demuestra que los ganadores vivieron más tiempo que los que solo fueron candidatos.
So there is little doubt that financial incentives work well, even if the outcome is undesirable. Consider a 2011 traffic accident in the Chinese city of Foshan. A two-year-old girl, walking through a...
Look around the world and you’ll find overwhelming evidence of the herd mentality at work.
Lo que realmente importa para un candidato político no es cuánto gasta, sino quién es.
Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation,dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary.
So what does all this mean if you desperately want to persuade someone who doesn’t want to be persuaded?The first step is to appreciate that your opponent’s opinion is likely based less on fact and lo...
Experts depend on the fact that you don’t have the information they do. Or that you are so befuddled by the complexity of their operation that you wouldn’t know what to do with the information if you...
Some of the most loyal customers any company has are the ones who had a big problem but got treated incredibly well as it was being resolved.
Un choque de automóvil es un asunto violento, y pueden sucederle muchas cosas terribles a una masa de carne y hueso que se desplace a gran velocidad dentro de un objeto metálico y pesado que se para d...
Una serie de estudios recientes ha demostrado que el personal de hospital se lava o desinfecta las manos en menos de la mitad de las ocasiones en que deberían hacerlo.
Un estudio descubrió que más del 25% de los homicidios cometidos en la ciudad de Nueva York en 1988 estaban relacionados con el crack.
They may accuse you of consorting with witches or communists or even economists.
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