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Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans where he hypothesizes: " ... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neoc... See more

Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

Carol Horton • Yoga Ph.D.: Integrating the Life of the Mind and the Wisdom of the Body

The University of Pennsylvania psychologist and political scientist Philip E. Tetlock has found that experts are generally terrible at making predictions about future events. In fact, he’s found that the more prominent the expert, the less accurate their predictions. Tetlock says this is because experts’ views are too locked in—they use their knowl... See more

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

Recognizing this blind spot enables second-order observers to become know-alls.

Mikael Krogerus • The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (Fully Revised Edition)

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John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)

The author of that seminal 1976 paper, “Knee-Deep in the Big Muddy: A Study of Escalating Commitment to a Chosen Course of Action,” is Harold and Shirley’s son, Barry Staw.

Annie Duke • Quit

Even social media and Internet platforms have changed how we do our work, adding millions of observers around the globe and providing sample sizes much larger than anything a single study could achieve.

Caroline Van Hemert • The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

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W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium

If you unwittingly study these peculiar modern populations without realizing the powerful impact that technologies, beliefs, and social norms related to literacy have on our brains and mental processes, you can get the wrong answers. This can happen even when you study seemingly basic features of psychology and neuroscience, like memory, visual pro