epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:M.E. Thomas [Thomas, M.E.]

Chapter 6 SAINTS, SPIES, AND SERIAL KILLERS I recently visited New Zealand and learned that it has a very diverse ecosystem. Until the arrival of humans, it was populated almost ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1994-09-04 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

There is a very good reason why the erotic side of Man has called forth so much more discussion lately than has his appetite for food. The reason is this: ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:James W. Pennebaker

Low use of I-words People higher in the social hierarchy use first-person singular pronouns such as I, me, and my at much lower rates than people lower in status. In ...

epub |eng | 2009-12-03 | Author:Elsie Lincoln Benedict & Ralph Paine Benedict [Benedict, Elsie Lincoln]

epub |eng | 1995-05-15 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

THE L A N G U A G E I N S T I N C T But these functional explanations are often tenuous, and for many universals they do ...

epub |rus | 2008-11-11 | Author:Pease, Barbara & Pease, Allan [Pease, Allan]

Notice how you behave next time you go alone to a crowded cinema. As you choose a seat that is surrounded by a sea of unknown faces, notice how, like ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-28 | Author:Albert-Laszlo Barabasi [Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo]

18 “Villain!” July 19, 1507 It seems every family has at at least one remarkable ancestor—a witty great-aunt whose personality shines through generations or a great-great-grandfather whose deeds survive the ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald, Mahzarin R. Banaji [Banaji, Mahzarin R. & Anthony G. Greenwald, Mahzarin R. Banaji]

Young Children At different points in development, a child comes to know that she is, for example, female, Irish, middle-class, brown-eyed, and athletic. One of our colleagues noticed early in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Ariely, Dan [Ariely, Dan]

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gladwell, Malcolm

FOUR The Power of Context (Part One) BERNIE GOETZ AND THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW YORK CITY CRIME On December 22, 1984, the Saturday before Christmas, Bernhard Goetz left ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Chip Heath [Heath, Chip]

CLINIC Our Intuition Is Flawed, but Who Wants to Believe That? THE SITUATION: People often trust their intuition, but our intuition is flawed by identifiable biases. Still, most people feel ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell [GLADWELL, MALCOLM]

It had only been about twenty minutes since they had arrived at the party when Jill pulled Steve aside, obviously bothered about something. “What’s wrong?” asked Steve. “It’s Larry. I ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Robert Frank [Frank, Robert]

Initially, Tim and Edra tried to keep the divorce civil and private. But like many divorces involving rich people, it quickly devolved into a spectacle of public attacks and money ...

epub |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

The Real World Back in the 1960s, the psychologist Stanley Milgram was horrified and inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who engineered the transport of Jews to Nazi death ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

Central Currency The economy in which we all participate is no more natural than the game scenarios John Nash set up to test the Rand Corporation’s secretaries. It is a ...