>>>>> Easy = True (Boston Globe, Jan. 2010), about cognitive fluency (a measure of how easy it is to think about something) and disfluency. We like that’s familiar, and that has ramifications about what we believe, because we’re not aware why we feel the way we do. >>>>> Continue reading Recentish Reading: Liking What’s Familiar Without Knowing Why
Alain de Botton on TED on success and failure: snobs, envy, the dangers of meritocracy (think ‘loser’), tragedy and the worship of humans instead of something transcendent – 16 min. video — we can’t escape cognitive bias and blind spots — 61 essential postmodern reads. The list is annotated with various supposed elements of a postmodern novel, such as self-contradicting plot, plays with language, includes historical falsehoods, less than 200 or more than 1000 pages, etc. I’m way behind in my pomo reading. I’ve read Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Steven Millhauser’s Edwin Mullhouse … Continue reading Assorted Links
Well, I’m back to my old habit of reviewing a bunch of online reading at once. These all relate to how we think, how the mind works. ______________________________________________________ ** How To Make Women Less Picky: Short answer: make them the initiators and/or rivals. This was a speed dating study where, contrary to the usual way it’s done, the men were sitting at tables and the women were moving from table to table trying to impress and win a date: “Regardless of gender, people who were required to approach a date were less picky than people who were seated.” One explanation … Continue reading Recent Reading: Aggression, Retaliation, Memories, Stories, Attraction, Identity, Social Norms, Neural Avalanches
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