Content tagged psychology
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How to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: “Excepting first names, only nine proper nouns have ever appeared in a winning caption: Batmobile, … gulfstream/2450
Steven Pinker: Linguistic, historial and sociological aspects of swearing. Many good points in here, e.g. “To hear nigger is to try on, however briefly, … gulfstream/2339
Malcolm Gladwell calls bullshit on crimanal profilers. Are they really any better than psychics? gulfstream/2348
Check out the Ron Jeremy version! (In the kinder, gentler, pre-Internet times, people took photos of passers-by being startled by a backfiring … gulfstream/1932
Some young Japanese are shutting themselves into their rooms, and effectively never coming out. gulfstream/1941
Good piece on how reality TV shows choose contestants, how the shows are run, and how contestants and failed contestants are affected by the experience. … gulfstream/1946
“It is a sign of the times that there has been no storm of protest over the increasingly manipulative and moralistic character of anti-smoking propaganda.” … gulfstream/2004
Why and how physicians participate in executions. Atul Gawande describes some botched executions, interviews four physicians and a nurse who have participated, … gulfstream/2035
Measuring poverty: in the US, the poverty line for the last 40 years has been set at three times a (very minimal) food budget. This approach has many … gulfstream/2045
On Muzak, the company who make mix tapes for retailers. Former Muzak executive Alvin Collis: “I walked into a store and understood: this is just like … gulfstream/2052
What’s known about yawning. (Seems like not so very much.) gulfstream/2079
The Nocebo effect: thinking that bad things will happen is a self-fulfilling prophesy. (So should doctors lie to patients about their prospects?) gulfstream/2102
Great story: Steven Levitt, playing in a poker tournament to celebrate his 10 year wedding anniversary, plays like a crazy man in order to either lose … gulfstream/2170
“A researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance on a popular quiz show.” gulfstream/2193
What Japanese tourists to NYC want. (“Masafumi Tomoshige, from Saga, was disappointed that he hadn’t seen a car chase.”) Eccentricities aside, … gulfstream/2217
Profile of Malcolm Gladwell. Whilst working at the Washington Post, he won a competition with a fellow reporter over who would be first to get the phrase … gulfstream/2219
Fun interview/profile of Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who is frequently described as the happiest man alive. gulfstream/2234
CIA account of two CIA operatives shot down over China on their first mission in 1952, and held captive for 20 years. gulfstream/2270
Review of The Two Towers: [Gollum] gives the movie a chance for psychological inquiry—the one thing it doesn’t require. “The Lord of … gulfstream/993
“Her Evite reply had to indicate she was glad to have been invited. It had to illustrate she had good reason for not attending. Most of all, it had to … gulfstream/2201
The psychology of house pricing. According to one realtor, a price like $433,779 “would be a real turnoff ... you’re talking about someone who’s … gulfstream/2236
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Confessions of a Car Salesman
nice, long, article by undercover car salesman
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
on memory, and an eccentric pole who created some software to help you remember
