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- Predictable irrationality - Dan Ariely
Articles, books, and online lectures by Dan Ariely
- Risk perception and decision-making under uncertainty
- Appearance and appeal of candidates
- Barry Schwartz journal articles
Barry Schwartz is Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College
- Dave DeWitt - The Changing Carolina Coast: When Storms And Dreams Collide
WUNC - The Changing Carolina Coast: When Storms And Dreams Collide By Dave DeWitt, 6/3/2015
- Diane Rehm Show - The Affordable Care Act Three Years In: What’s Working And What’s Not
Fascinating telephone question and discussion at about 33 minutes into the program! Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced it would not rule on a major case on access to contraception under the Affordable Care Act. It was the latest in the legal battles over the health law. The goal of the ACA is to provide insurance to tens of millions of uninsured Americans through state and federal marketplaces. By some measures, the law succeeded. An estimated 20 million more people now have coverage. But the number of insurance companies participating in exchanges is dwindling, and their plans exclude many doctors and hospitals. Diane and a panel of guests look at the Affordable Care Act three years after it was enacted. Guests Julie Rovner senior correspondent, Kaiser Health News; author of "Health Care Policy and Politics A-Z" Stephanie Armour healthcare reporter, Wall Street Journal Susan Dentzer president and ceo, NEHI (Network for Excellence in Health Innovation), a non-profit think-tank
- How Voice Pitch Influences Our Choice of Leaders
Candidates’ vocal characteristics influence voters’ attitudes toward them. Casey A. Klofstad, Stephen Nowicki, Rindy C. Anderson. American Scientist September-October 2016;104:282-287. "a key proposition remains untested: People with lower voices may have an edge in elections for positions of leadership, but do people with lower voices actually make better leaders?"
- Matthieu Ricard: “Altruism”
"When Matthieu Ricard was in his 20s and studying molecular biology, he traveled to India to meet a Buddhist master he saw in a movie. Soon afterwards, Ricard left behind a promising career in science for a quiet, anonymous life as a Buddhist monk. In the late 1990s, he published “The Monk and the Philosopher,” a dialogue with his father that became an international bestseller. In his latest book, Ricard argues that altruism is the key to solving major world problems like inequality and climate change. He joins us to talk about how consideration for others can solve the challenges of our modern world." Guests Matthieu Ricard Buddhist monk and scientist; international bestselling author of "Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill" and "The Monk and the Philosopher" (Book excerpt on Web page)
- No. 1 With A Bullet Point: To Get Research Cited, Make Sure It's Listed First (4 min)
NPR Morning Edition, 7/15/2015. Reports results of a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper: "It's Good to be First: Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers", Daniel R. Feenberg, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Jonathan Gruber NBER Working Paper No. 21141, issued in May 2015; http://www.nber.org/papers/w21141
- NPR - Netflix And Chew: How Binge Watching Affects Our Eating Habits
Netflix And Chew: How Binge Watching Affects Our Eating Habits NPR Morning Edition, December 31, 2015
- People's Pharmacy - Show 1018: How to Have Healthier Habits in the New Year
With Joe and Terry Graedon, 1/2/2016. This Week’s Guest: "Gretchen Rubin is one of the most influential and thought-provoking writers on happiness. Her best-selling earlier book was The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. She followed that with Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life. In this interview we are discussing her latest book, Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits-to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life."
- Richard Thaler - Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior
The Upshot Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior Economic View By Richard H. Thaler NY Times, 5/8/2015
- The seductive allure is a reductive allure: People prefer scientific explanations that contain logically irrelevant reductive information
Emily J. Hopkins, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Jordan C.V. Taylor Cognition 2016 (Oct);155:67-76. Has supplemental online material with actual tests used. Abstract: Previous work has found that people feel significantly more satisfied with explanations of psychological phenomena when those explanations contain neuroscience information—even when this information is entirely irrelevant to the logic of the explanations. This seductive allure effect was first demonstrated by Weisberg, Keil, Goodstein, Rawson, and Gray (2008), and has since been replicated several times (Fernandez-Duque, Evans, Christian, & Hodges, 2015; Minahan & Siedlecki, 2016; Rhodes, Rodriguez, & Shah, 2014; Weisberg, Taylor, & Hopkins, 2015). However, these studies only examined psychological phenomena. The current study thus investigated the generality of this effect and found that it occurs across several scientific disciplines whenever the explanations include reductive information: reference to smaller components or more fundamental processes. These data suggest that people have a general preference for reductive information, even when it is irrelevant to the logic of an explanation.