Social Psychology & Interactions
epub |eng | 2014-01-29 | Author:David DeSteno

Get Out of My Way Most of us don’t usually stop to think about it, but the simple act of crossing the street necessitates some level of trust. Unless you’re ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Dan Ariely

FROM THIS EXPERIMENT, we saw that our capsule did have a placebo effect. But suppose we priced the Veladone differently. Suppose we discounted the price of a capsule of Veladone-Rx ...
( Category: Consumer Behavior February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Outliers: The Story of Success [Success, Outliers: The Story of]

Part Two legacy CHAPTER SIX Harlan, Kentucky "DIE LIKE A MAN, LIKE YOUR BROTHER DID!" 1. In the southeastern corner of Kentucky, in the stretch of the Appalachian Mountains known ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions February 8,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Sloan Wilson

FIGURE 7.1 AYN RAND’S WORLDVIEW In short, Rand’s worldview adds a layer of unreality on top of the unreality of Homo economicus. Those who become believers acquire a kind of ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Kevin A Harrison [Harrison, Kevin A]

50 People Are Rushing By WHYY People are rushing around the place, cutting off others for a parking space. People are texting and trying to drive, causing car crashes then ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious January 25,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-03-14 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

4. In chapter 2, when I was discussing what made someone like Mark Alpert so important in word of mouth epidemics, I talked about two seemingly counterintuitive aspects of persuasion. ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions January 17,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Thomas Gilovich

7 The Imagined Agreement of Others Exaggerated Impressions of Social Support My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and success, the moment a second mind has adopted it. Novalis ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 17,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

3. Dershaw picked up a new X-ray and put it on the light box. It belonged to a forty-eight-year-old woman. Mammograms indicate density in the breast: the denser the tissue ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-01 | Author:Gustave le Bon

Document Outline Preface Contents Introduction Book I: The Mind of Crowds Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Book II: The Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds Chapter I Chapter ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions January 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-04-11 | Author:Anne Campbell

Mhoc09.fm Page 305 Friday, December 14, 2001 10:18 AM   :     epigenetic rules … It is important to note that this characterization does not state ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions December 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Jonathan Haidt

FIGURE 9.3. Lyudmila Trut with Pavlik, a forty-second generation decendant of Belyaev’s original study. (photo credit 9.2) In the 1980s the geneticist William Muir used group selection to get around ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism November 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Michael Harris [Harris, Michael]

• • • • • I experienced my first intuition of Tolstoy’s larger phraseology around page fifty-eight. Princess Anna Mikhailovna is subtly begging for money from a countess so that ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Asma, Stephen T. [Asma, Stephen T.]

The monsters from the sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Warner Bros.). Image courtesy of Jerry Ohlinger. Though from a very different perspective, some liberal monsterologists also see civilization hanging in ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology November 20,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Benoit Denizet-Lewis

ON OUR second day in Marfa, Casey and I met a dog that almost made me forget about San Antonio. His name was Dersu, and at first glance he seemed ...
( Category: Dogs November 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-06-04 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

A realist interpretation of conceptual metaphor casts a different light on the application of metaphor and framing to politics. True to his cognitive theory, Lakoff states that “frames trump facts” ...
( Category: Linguistics November 14,2014 )