The Atlantic reports on another study showing that financial experts do no better than the rest of us when it comes to making investment decisions. The nice part about this study was that the researchers examined how investment...
Category - Brain Wrinkles
It’s clear that being fat has gotten cheaper along almost every dimension: calories cost less, unhealthy calories cost much less, food preparation costs have plummeted, some of the most costly health effects of being fat...
I was well into graduate school (and out, and then back in again) when Robin Leach busted onto the TV scene with his runaway “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous.” If you’re too young (or old) to remember, Mr...
Fast Company left their door open a crack, so I snuck in with a quick piece on the science of procrastination and what we can do to get past it. Check it out here.
In a previous post, I shared a recent study that suggested that half measured confessions aren’t very effective, and that only a full reboot would wipe away the guilt. But why is that the case? The answer may lie in the...
Rock, Paper, Scissors is what economists like to call a non-cooperative game. That means someone wins, someone loses, and the payoff for one player’s choice depends in part on the choice made by the other player. For...
The hit TV series “24” always got my attention. Yes, I am a sucker for shows about spies, undercover cops and counter-terrorists. But in addition to all of the shoot-em-up theatrics, I could always count on that...
Tonight millions and millions of Americans will be waiting to find out whether they won the whopping $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot. And almost all (or maybe even all) of them will be disappointed. The chance of winning...
It’s that most wonderful time of the year: a week or two after making those New Year’s resolutions. About half of us make resolutions, but by various measures most of us will have abandoned them by the Fourth of...
Here’s a great way to get your brain around how little time our brains have been around. (It also helps explain why many of our instincts are adapted to a different time and place… and our brains have yet to catch...
