Leaning to the Left Makes People Lean Left - NYTimes.com

Leaning to the Left Makes People Lean Left - NYTimes.com

"In three studies we observed that spatially orienting people towards their left or their right correspondingly influenced their political attitudes. These results lend support to the notion that metaphor influences the way we represent and reason about abstract domains. In particular, due to the abstractness of political discourse, the metaphors we choose when discussing politics can impact our attitudes in the political arena."

It’s all more chance than choice.

It’s all more chance than choice.: "

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Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com

Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com: An hour of study tonight, an hour on the weekend, another session a week from now: such so-called spacing improves later recall, without requiring students to put in more overall study effort or pay more attention, dozens of studies have found.

Does It Pay to Be Optimistic? - NYTimes.com

Does It Pay to Be Optimistic? - NYTimes.com "dispositional optimists experience significantly better job search outcomes than pessimists with similar skills"

Dan Ariely � Blog Archive Humans and the slime mould �

Dan Ariely � Blog Archive Humans and the slime mould Even for slime mould relativity matters, suggesting that it is a very basic form of decision making!