Photo: Daniel X. O’Neil via Flickr Angela Duckworth’s new book on grit is exploding. In fact, it’s moving so quickly that her nuanced take on the concept is being trampled in the process. Everyone’s...
Category - Happiness
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...
According to the British blog Ananova, two poor Hungarian “cavemen” are set to inherit their share of about $5 billion. The windfall comes after their estranged grandmother living in Germany (who apparently...
- Active Choice
- Adaptive vs. Rational
- Bias to the present
- Happiness
- Opt Out
- Self Control
- Simplify Wisely
- Social norms
Thanksgiving Tips from the Behavioral Sciences
In a Washington Post article, an interview with Dan Ariely led to the following tips for dealing with the potential food stuffage that seems to come along with Thanksgiving: Use chopsticks (or other difficult to handle...
