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- Up one level
- Predictable irrationality
Articles, books, and online lectures by Dan Ariely
- Tversky and Kahneman
- Beyond Comprehension: We know that genocide and famine are greater tragedies than a lost dog. At least, we think we do.
Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer, Washington Post, January 17, 2010 (telescope effect)
- Charlie Rose: Brain Series
Produced by WNET. Broadcast on PBS
- In the Land of the Free, Interdependent Action Undermines Motivation
MarYam G. Hamedani, Hazel Rose Markus, Alyssa S. Fu. Psychological Science. February 2013;24(2):189-196
- John Antonakis, Olaf Dalgas. Predicting Elections: Child's Play!
In two experiments, children and adults rated pairs of faces from election races. Naive adults judged a pair on competence; after playing a game, children chose who they would prefer to be captain of their boat. Children's (as well as adults') preferences accurately predicted actual election outcomes.
Science 27 Feb 2009;323:1183
- Malcolm Gladwell. Blink
In his bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren’t as simple as they seem.
- NPR. Stories about brain
Also, stories about the hidden brain at http://www.npr.org/tags/125936630/the-hidden-brain
- Shankar Vedantum. The Hidden Brain
The hidden brain plays a powerful role in every domain of human behavior, from the law to politics, from sports to romance.
See also the video (38 min) on that page (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9wxpn4nflA) and material at http://vedantam.com/
- Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment
Science 13 Dec 2014, plus letter and response
- What if a Search Engine Could Determine an Election?
by Allie Morris. PBS Newshour. The Rundown. April 2, 2013 at 11:30 AM EDT
http://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_and_Robertson_2013-Democracy_at_Risk-APS-summary-5-13.pdf