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You’ve just been exposed to the Florida effect: a series of age-related stereotypes that, without your awareness, activated a series of nodes and concepts in your brain that in turn prompted
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
a belief
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman indicates that on average, we are twice as loss-averse compared to seeking a gain209
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Longevity and aging
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The economists wrote: “Our findings suggest that individual investors’ willingness to bear risk depends on personal history.” Not intelligence, or education, or sophistication. Just the dumb luck of when and where you were born.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Black and Hispanic job applicants are more likely to apply for jobs when black or Hispanic representatives are depicted in company recruitment materials.
Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
What makes a good life? In 1938, Harvard set out to answer that question by launching the longest scientific study on human happiness ever conducted. Eight decades, three generations, and thousands of data points later, the results are in and they might just change how you live. #psychology #motivation #motivationalquotes
instagram.comA paper entitled “Insensitivity to the value of human life: A study of psychophysical numbing” collected evidence that our perception of human deaths follows Weber’s Law—obeys a logarithmic scale where the “just noticeable difference” is a constant fraction of the whole. A proposed health program to save the lives of Rwandan refugees garnered far h
... See moreEliezer Yudkowsky • Map and Territory (Rationality: From AI to Zombies Book 1)
Optimists tend to live longer, with a 50 to 70 percent greater chance of reaching the age of eighty-five than those who are least optimistic.41