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Acute Stress Modulates Risk Taking in Financial Decisions
Increased anxiety leads to increased reliance on biased risk taking in financial decisions. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Rutgers University. The study was premised on an oft...
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The Rational Vulcan
“It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six.” – Spock Consider the following two situations: Situation # 1: You are among a group of 25 people who are hiding during World War II in the attic of...
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Are attractive people really more trustworthy?
Imagine the following scenario: you’re sharing a table with a stranger at a coffee shop. You’ve exchanged a few pleasantries with the person but not much else. You need to go to the bathroom and would...
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The Seductive Allure of Uncertainty
Amongst the forests of trees cut down in support of self-help books on dating, some not inconsequential percentage of lumber has probably been exclusively dedicated to variants on the theme that one...
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worthy links
Nice piece from the Boston Globe on the positive benefits of solitude. (My friend Adam Waytz, from the Harvard psychology department, gets a mention.) Congenitally blind people use visual cortex to do...
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Mirror Neurons and Mentalizing
Perhaps few findings in the cognitive sciences have received more press in recent years than the discovery by Rizolatti and colleagues in macque monkeys of mirror neurons; that is, neurons that...
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Regard thyself and put down the smoke stick
As many a former smoker will probably attest, quitting cigarettes ranks high in the hard-to-kick category. I made several unsuccessful attempts before finally kicking the habit after a 10 year...
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Protected: The case of the man who couldn’t find the beat
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Social cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder
One of the hallmarks of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is an impairment in social cognitive skills. This manifests in individuals with ADS having trouble orienting their attention towards people....
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