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Dan Callahan • Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors
Do these emotional tendencies predispose people toward particular political ideologies, as the theory predicts? Or do conservative versus liberal mind-sets lead people to tune in to different emotional channels? Or are they both just a reflection of some other factor that causes both?
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe; a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against a social and natural background is, however incorrigible it may seem
... See moreJoseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
If people act in ways that challenge the claim made by a self-justifying image, we see them as threats. If they reinforce the claim made by a self-justifying image, we see them as allies. If they fail to matter to a self-justifying image, we see them as unimportant.
The Arbinger Institute • Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
Some economists are already working on that. They are using this brain-imaging data to support a new political philosophy known as asymmetric paternalism. That's a fancy name for a simple idea: creating policies and incentives that help people triumph over their irrational impulses and make better, more prudent decisions. Shlomo Benartzi and Richar
... See moreJonah Lehrer • How We Decide
Que pouvez-vous faire pour avoir une bonne vie, une vie heureuse, qui vous épanouit et qui a du sens? Quelle est la réponse à la question du sens dans la vie? Je crois qu’on ne peut trouver la réponse qu’en comprenant le type de créature que nous sommes et les divisions qu’elle comporte. La sélection individuelle nous a façonnés en créatures égoïst
... See moreJonathan Haidt • L'hypothèse du bonheur: La redécouverte de la sagesse ancienne dans la science contemporaine (PSY. Individus, groupes, cultures) (French Edition)
people look outside of themselves to the actions of their peers under similar circumstances.
Maura Ginty • Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions
This builds on a growing body of work that our ‘‘mind perception’’ (which manifests as inferences of intentions, beliefs, and values) meaningfully varies across individuals and shapes our moral judgments