A study recently published in the February issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that subjects who fully confess after a moral misstep feel better than those who only come partially clean. In addition...
Category - Brain Wrinkles
The Wall Street Journal reports on the emerging TV trend called “behavioral placement.” It’s an odd term, but is a reworking of the practice of product placement, in which a sponsor’s goods show up in the show. Behavioral...
In a recent piece in The New York Times, columnist and economics professor Paul Krugman schools us on the limitations of neoclassical economics. It’s a great piece, and one of my favorite bits is his reference to...
Wired provides a great example of how what seems to be irrational behavior today — our awkward etiquette during elevator rides — was quite rational behavior in our ancestral past. The bends, kinks, and biases in...
