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Weekend Tidbits

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Dec 1, 2012

Dianne Tice and Roy Baumeister gave a bunch of college students a questionnaire in which the students answered questions about their work habits. In a class which she taught, Tice also assigned a pape ...

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Nov 25, 2012

As discussed in a previous tidbit, people are over-confident in their abilities for many reasons. Here's an example...The price of wine varies enormously by vintage. There is a HUGE industry in predic ...

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Nov 24, 2012

As we approach the holiday (i.e. gift-giving) season, don't forget to make sure to include the usual notes in your gifts indicating that they can be returned. Otherwise, you'll just cause the recipien ...

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Nov 18, 2012

The cat virus Toxoplasma gondii produces psychotic symptoms in cats similar to those in humans suffering from schizophrenia.Moreover, recent studies by Jaroslav Flegr show that exposure to cats in chi ...

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Nov 17, 2012

There are two sets of baseball cards:A = Contains 7 top players.B = Contains the same 7 top players, plus 3 so-so players.There are also three groups of people who are going to bid on them:Shown both ...

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Nov 11, 2012

There is a ton of evidence that people find a loss from whatever their reference point is more painful than they find pleasure in a gain of the same magnitude.Here is one example.Devin Pope and Mauric ...

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Nov 10, 2012

According to special relativity, if a twin leaves earth in a high-speed rocket, goes out into space, and then returns to earth, he will return younger than his twin who stays home.This is because, acc ...

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Nov 4, 2012

Remember Dan White's "Twinkie defense" in 1979? Well it turns out that the the ability to convert food into glucose is correlated with the ability to control oneself.According to one study, 90% of tho ...

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Nov 3, 2012

Constructive social interaction depends upon recognizing those one is interacting with. Not surprisingly, then, we have a section of our cortex devoted to facial recognition. But we're not the only on ...

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Oct 28, 2012

It takes roughly 500 gallons of water to produce a quarter pound hamburger, and in the process, approximately six pounds of greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere.By contrast, to produce a ...