psychology

big gap between expectations and reality.

Competing groups have the qualities of competing individuals: acquisitiveness, pugnacity, partisanship, pride.

A public success is nothing more than positive feedback from others. Any kind of social reinforcement increases feel-good neurochemistry, which increases motivation.12 Positive attention from others causes the brain to release more dopamine than we get from passion alone. It also adds oxytocin to the equation. The combination of dopamine and

What Homes is really telling Watson when he contrasts seeing and observing is to never mistake mindlessness for mindfulness, a passive approach with an active involvement.

But the influence of the frontier doesn't end at the individual. The frontier also shapes the cultures of the tribes who inhabit it.

The most striking effect is forcing solidarity. Out on the fringe, short on resources and surrounded by wilderness and potential enemies, a tribe must either unite or perish. Most tribes — and certainly all the

Since we’re picking on tech companies, let’s go with another fan favorite: Facebook. In June 2014 they, along with some Cornell researchers, published a paper10 that revealed a massive intervention in which the company manipulated the contents of users’ newsfeeds to contain either more positive or more negative content, which then caused users to

This choice is easy! Option BC actually dominates option AD (the technical term for one option being unequivocally better than another). You already know what comes next. The dominant option in BC is the combination of the two rejected options in the first pair of decision problems, the one that only 3% of respondents favored in our original study.

‘I am convinced now that nothing good is accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and making yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion,’

It doesn’t make more things true, it just uncovers more true things than we saw before.