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Think before you leap - Opinion - theage.com.au

Citation added: May 16th, 2008, 5:49 pm
"People are not accustomed to thinking hard," writes Daniel Kahneman, "and are often content to trust a plausible judgement that quickly comes to mind". And that can be dangerous.
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Psychology | Sugaring the decision | Economist.com

Citation added: March 27th, 2008, 6:06 pm
Whether reason or intuition is used may depend simply on the decision-maker's blood-sugar level—which is, itself, affected by the process of reasoning.
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Shankar Vedantam - Eliot Spitzer and the Price-Placebo Effect - washingtonpost.com

Citation added: March 17th, 2008, 3:12 am
A host of studies have previously shown that people's judgments about quality are powerfully influenced by price.
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Developing Intelligence : From Mind to Hand: Hidden Knowledge Revealed and Enhanced By Gesture

Citation added: February 8th, 2008, 5:39 pm
New research shows that "talking with your hands" can not only reveal different information than spoken language, it can be both more correct and yield better learning.
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Headaches have themselves

Citation added: May 18th, 2007, 6:57 am
Consciousness is all the rage just now. It boasts new journals of its very own, from which learned articles overflow. Neuropsychologists snap its picture (in colour) with fMRI machines, and probe with needles for its seat in the brain. At all seasons, and
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