Sublime

Impulsivity, says Bosley, is a common diagnostic indicator of people’s vulnerability to fraud.

The tingle as to whether somebody’s good/bad seems to be mystical, but it’s just science: us picking up on thousands of different micro-gestures and ever-so-subtle voice intonations.

a person using a computer experiences “cognitive drift” if more than one second elapses between clicking the mouse and seeing new data on the screen.

And consider a random group of people who volunteered to try web-based instruction in meditation, for a total of two and a half hours (that is, twenty sessions of ten minutes each). This brief loving-kindness training resulted in people feeling more relaxed and donating to charity at a higher rate than those in a comparison group who did a

The worst performers and the best performers are givers; takers and matchers are more likely to land in the middle.

System 2 is also credited with the continuous monitoring of your own behavior—the control that keeps you polite when you are angry, and alert when you are driving at night. System 2 is mobilized to increased effort when it detects an error about to be made.

Pour Vaughan Bell, chercheur en psychologie au King’s College de Londres, « la capacité de se concentrer sur une tâche unique, relativement ininterrompue, est une anomalie bizarre dans l’histoire de notre développement psychologique [8] ».

Instant feedback may improve behaviour more than delayed punishment.