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Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want

University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley points out that in day-to-day life we have access to the many thoughts that run through our own minds. But we don’t have access to all the thoughts that are running through other people’s minds. We just have access to the tiny portion they speak out loud. This leads to the perception that I am much

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

I found a lot of human behavior incomprehensible until I thoroughly internalized one principle: People will believe whatever allows them to be the hero of their own story. (more below) https://t.co/S5NnlKEcPr

Cate Hall

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Behavioral economics is demonstrating that humans don’t always act in self-interested ways, and that transactions themselves have an emotional component.

Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more

SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow

Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons - By Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist

Evan Nesterak behavioralscientist.org

People who are good at mirroring also have what the Northeastern University neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett calls high “emotional granularity,” the ability to finely distinguish between different emotional states.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

People who score high in neuroticism have more emotional ups and downs over the course of the day. They can fall into a particular kind of emotional spiral: They are quick to see threats and negative emotions; they interpret ambiguous events more negatively; they are therefore exposed to more negative experiences; this exposure causes them to