Igor Delovski Board

[Ike]

Can you read people's thoughts just by looking at them?

"O'Sullivan and Ekman call this study of gifted face readers the Diogenes
Project, after the Greek philosopher of antiquity who used to wander around
Athens with a lantern, peering into people's faces as he searched for an
honest man. Ekman has taken the most vaporous of sensations-- the hunch
you have about someone else-- and sought to give them definition. Most of
us don't trust our hunches, because we don't know where they came from.
We think they can't be explained. But what if they can?"

[delovski]

Chronic complainers

"No matter how good things get they still only see the bad - and they
go to huge lengths to point it out to everyone around them."

[delovski]

How to Detect Lies

"The following techniques to telling if someone is lying are often used
by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers,
employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the
truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams
and other deceptions."

[XNote]

22 Ways To Overclock Your Brain

"It’s simple, your brain is at the center of everything you do, all you feel
and think, and every nuance of how you relate to people. It’s both the
supercomputer that runs your complex life and the tender organ that
houses your soul. And while you may run, lift weights, or do yoga to keep
your body in good condition, chances are you ignore your brain and trust
it to do its job."

[delovski]

Credibility

"Experienced waiters in high-end restaurants use a neat trick to gain trust
and credibility with customers. While taking orders, they point out that
whatever was ordered:

“…isn’t that good tonight, may I suggest the (cheaper dish)?”

This immediately gives the customer reason to believe that the waiter is
on their side, since he is willing to comment negatively about the restaurant’s
dishes and point to a better dish that is cheaper (which would actually
have the effect of decreasing his tip).

In the customers’ eyes the waiters credibility has increased considerably
because of this show of objectivity. Of course, the waiter then goes on to
leverage this increase in credibility by recommending more expensive
wines, appetizers, and deserts - thereby increasing his tip considerably."

[delovski]

NY Times: Empty-Stomach Intelligence

"Hunger makes the best sauce, goes the maxim. According to researchers
at Yale Medical School, it may make quadratic equations and Kant’s categorical
imperative go down easier too. The stimulation of hunger, the researchers
announced in the March issue of Nature Neuroscience, causes mice to take
in information more quickly, and to retain it better — basically, it makes
them smarter. And that’s very likely to be true for humans as well."

[XNote]

Getting people addicted to your web site

"In the social web the largest challenge usually is starting a new community.
Adding the “game appeal” of the site may help."

[Ike]

Brain study finds the stuff of daydreams

"There is this network of regions that always seems to be active when
you don’t give people something to do, said psychologist Malia Mason of
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. When Mason
asked people what was happening during this down time, the answer was
clear. It’s daydreaming, she said. But I find that the vast majority of time,
people aren’t having fanciful thoughts. People are thinking about what
they have to do later today."

[Ike]

JoS: Putting a phone on my ear drops my IQ 50 pts

"At my job they suggested us narrating the directions to making a peanut
butter sandwitch and then following what was on the tape, and only what
was on the tape, to see if you were capturing sufficient detail."

[delovski]

The Prometheus Society's Journal: The Outsiders

"Wechsler is saying quite plainly that those with IQs above 150 are different in
kind from those below that level. He is saying that they are a different kind
of mind, a different kind of human being.

When Prometheus and Triple Nine members were asked if they perceived a
categorical difference between those above this level and others, most said
that they did, although they also said that they were reluctant to call the
difference genius. Many thought that the most appropriate term for people
like themselves was Outsider."

Aldous Huxley once wrote:

[Ike]

Slashdot: Slobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks

"Are you a slob? Do you pile papers on top of folders on top of game boxes?
Here's the thing that those anal neat people can't even conceive of: you're
more productive than they are.

That's the conclusion of 'A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder,'
by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness
is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity."

[delovski]

Scott Adams: Today I Will Improve Your Sex Life

"For example, researchers asked people to write essays in support of a random
point of view they did not hold. Months later, when surveyed, the majority
held the opinion they wrote about, regardless of the topic. Once a person
commits an opinion to writing – even an opinion he does not hold – it soon
becomes his actual opinion. Not every time, but MOST of the time.

The people in these experiments weren’t exposed to new information before
writing their contrived opinions. All they did was sit down and write an opinion
they didn’t actually have, and months later it became their actual opinion.
The experiment worked whether the volunteers were writing the pro or the
con position on the random topic."

[delovski]

The Observer: Names really do make a difference,
by Anushka Asthana

"Research shows that girls with 'feminine' names steer clear of 'masculine'
maths and science."

[delovski]

Great Potential Press: Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals

"Existential depression is a depression that arises when an individual
confronts certain basic issues of existence. Yalom (1980) describes
four such issues (or "ultimate concerns")--death, freedom, isolation
and meaninglessness."

[Ike]

psychologytoday.com - Field Guide to the Loner: The Real Insiders

"Loners are pitied in our up-with-people culture. But the introvert reaps
secret joy from the solitary life."

[Ike]

PSYCHOPATHS AMONG US - Hare estimates that 1 percent of the population
are psychopaths.

"Weeks of intense therapy, which are producing real breakthroughs in the
other youths, will probably make a psychopath more likely to reoffend.
Psychopaths are not like the rest of us, and everyone who studies them
agrees they should not be treated as if they were.

Babiak says psychopaths have three motivations: thrill-seeking, the pathological
desire to win, and the inclination to hurt people. "They'll jump on any opportunity
that allows them to do those things," he says. "If something better comes along,
they'll drop you and move on.

Paul Babiak says he's 'not comfortable' with one researcher's estimate
that one in ten executives is a psychopath, but he has noticed that they
are attracted to positions of power. When he describes employees such
as John to other executives, they know exactly whom he's talking about.
'I was talking to a group of human-resources executives yesterday,' says
Babiak, 'and every one of them said, you know, I think I've got somebody
like that.'"

[Ike]

Slashdot: Forgetting May be Part of the Remembering Process

"The New York Times is running an interesting article about how human
memory works and the theorized adaptive nature of forgetfulness".

"Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite
recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to
curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers
reported on Sunday that the ability to block certain memories reduces the
demands on the brain when it is trying to recall something important."

[delovski]

Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works

"Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works - If you name your emotions,
you can tame them, according to new research that suggests why meditation
works."

[Ike]

scientistlive.com - Failure breeds success

"Psychologists from the University of Exeter have identified an early warning
signal in the brain that helps us avoid repeating previous mistakes.

Published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, their research identifies,
for the first time, a mechanism in the brain that reacts in just 0.1 seconds to
things that have resulted in us making errors in the past."

[Ike]

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

"Human nature is one of those things that everybody talks about but no one
can define precisely. Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, get upset
about the influx of immigrants into our country, or go to church, we are, in
part, behaving as a human animal with our own unique evolved nature—human
nature."

[delovski]

Why It's Hard to Admit to Being Wrong

"We all have a hard time admitting that we're wrong, but according to a new
book about human psychology, it's not entirely our fault. Social psychologist
Elliot Aronson says our brains work hard to make us think we are doing the
right thing, even in the face of sometimes overwhelming evidence to the contrary."

[delovski]

The first thing that you need to understand about humans

"Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of
them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone."

[delovski]

The Critical 7 Rules To Understand People

"My headline might sound overreaching. Clearly a rule can’t define something
as complex as human behavior. But despite this, I’ve found most people tend
to make the same mistakes. These mistakes are frequent enough that they
create conflicts later. Remembering these seven rules will help you avoid these
mistakes."

[Ike]

Slashdot: Why Myths Persist

"The conventional response to myths and urban legends is to counter bad
information with accurate information. But the new psychological studies show
that denials and clarifications, for all their intuitive appeal, can paradoxically
contribute to the resiliency of popular myths...

The research is painting a broad new understanding of how the mind works.
Contrary to the conventional notion that people absorb information in a deliberate
manner, the studies show that the brain uses subconscious 'rules of thumb'
that can bias it into thinking that false information is true. Clever manipulators
can take advantage of this tendency."

[delovski]

Results of the "WalletTest.com" Experiment

[delovski]

Genetic risk factors as possible causes of the variation in European suicide rates



"One explanation is that these tribes, whose genetic constitution was not
suited to alcohol consumption and whose descendants also have the highest
suicide rates in Europe, contributed to the genetic make-up of the local people.

Once religious and other environmental factors led to the re-establishment
of vine-growing, the region's inhabitants who were genetically unsuited to
alcohol consumption soon developed the highest rates of both consumption-
and alcohol-related psychiatric disorders."

[delovski]

Slashdot: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

"Scientific American has an interesting article on the secret to raising smart
kids that says that more than 30 years of scientific investigation suggests
that an overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves people vulnerable to failure,
fearful of challenges and unwilling to remedy their shortcomings. In particular,
attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more
than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

One theory of what separates the two general classes of learners, helpless
versus mastery-oriented, is that these different types of students not only
explain their failures differently, but they also hold different "theories" of
intelligence.

The helpless ones believe that intelligence is a fixed trait: you have only a
certain amount. Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute
errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change. Mastery-
oriented children think intelligence is malleable and can be developed through
education and hard work. Challenges are energizing rather than intimidating
offering opportunities to learn."

[delovski]

reddit - Women Are Attracted to Liars and Narcissists

"According to a new study, men who are narcissistic, thrill-seeking liars and
all round "bad boys" tend to have the greatest success finding more sexual
partners."

[Ike]

Save your breath: There's No Arguing With Conservatives

"A new study out of Yale University confirms what argumentative liberals
have long-known: Offering reality-based rebuttals to conservative lies only
makes conservatives cling to those lies even harder. In essence, schooling
conservatives makes them more stupid."

[Ike]

Slashdot: Researchers Discover The Most Creative Time of Day

"Creativity is least likely to strike in the afternoon, according to a survey
that suggests office workers have little chance of solving problems after
lunch. A poll of 1,426 people showed that a quarter of us stay up late when
seeking inspiration. Taking a shower or just sitting in the bathroom proved
to be a popular way of getting the creative juices flowing. The survey found
that 10:04pm was the most creative time, while 4:33pm was the least. I'll
think of something funny to write here later."

[XNote]

psychologytoday.com - How to Run a Con

"The key to a con is not that you trust the conman, but that he shows he
trusts you. Conmen play their trade by appearing fragile or needing help,
by seeming vulnerable."

[delovski]

Slate - The Eligible-Bachelor Paradox

"How economics and game theory explain the shortage of available,
appealing men."

[delovski]

newsweek.com - Lessons In Survival

"Special Forces soldiers really are special and different from the rest of the
Army. They stay more focused and engaged in a crisis and bounce back fa-
ster afterward because their bodies produce massive amounts of natural
anti-anxiety chemicals. In the fog of war—and everyday life for that mat-
ter—that's a major advantage."

[delovski]

Derek Sivers - Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less moti-
vated to accomplish them

"Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions
private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public
and were acknowledged by others."

[delovski]

discover - Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State

"The human brain is arguably the most complex organ in the natural world.
And yet studies on mind wandering are showing that we find it difficult to
stay focused for more than a few minutes on even the easiest tasks, despite
the fact that we make mistakes whenever we drift away."

[Ike]

reddit - "On the Shortness of Life": Advice from an ancient Roman on
how to live fully

"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. Life is long en-
ough and our allotted portion generous enough for our most ambitious proje-
cts if we invest it all carefully. But when it is squandered through luxury and
indifference, and spent for no good end, we realize it has gone, under the pr-
essure of the ultimate necessity, before we were aware it was going."

[Ike]

reddit - The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
W. B. Yeats,..."

[delovski]

Slashdot: Cooking May Have Made Us Human

"Anthropologist Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking
Made Us Human believes that the discovery of cooked food led to evolu-
tionary changes resulting in a smaller and different digestive system based
on a higher-quality diet, mainly relying on cooked meat. In an interview on
NPR's Science Friday (text and audio), Professor Wrangham explores con-
cepts such as the digestive costs of food, the benefits (or lack thereof) of
raw diets, and a distinct preference in Great Apes for cooked food over
raw."

[Ike]

Slashdot: Bad Driving May Have Genetic Basis

"Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study
by UC Irvine neuroscientists.People with a particular gene variant perfor-
med more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it
and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results. About 30% of
Americans have the variant.

'These people make more errors from the get-go, and they forget more of
what they learned after time away,' said Dr. Steven Cramer, neurology as-
sociate professor and senior author of the study published recently in the
journal Cerebral Cortex."

[delovski]

Slashdot: Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart

"How can a 'smart' person act foolishly? Keith Stanovich, professor of human
development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada,
has grappled with this apparent incongruity for 15 years. He says it applies
to more people than you might think. To Stanovich, however, there is noth-
ing incongruous about it. IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental
faculties, he says, including logic, abstract reasoning, learning ability and
working-memory capacity — how much information you can hold in mind."

[XNote]

Slashdot - Why Time Flies By As You Get Older

"Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the
universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get ol-
der. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out:
that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the
"clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each in-
terval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age."

[delovski]

Slashdot - Study Shows People In Power Make Better Liars

"MSNBC is reporting that a Columbia Business School study shows those
who hold power over others make better liars. According to one of the
study's coauthors, 'It just doesn't hurt them as much to do it.' For the ave-
rage liar, she said, the act of lying elicits negative emotions, physiological
stress and the fear of getting caught in a lie. As a result, she added, liars
will often send out cues that they are lying by doing things like fidgeting in
a chair or changing the rate of their speech.

But for the powerful, the impact is very different: 'Power, it seems, en-
hances the same emotional, cognitive, and physiological systems that lie-
telling depletes. People with power enjoy positive emotions, increases in
cognitive function, and physiological resilience such as lower levels of the
stress hormone cortisol. Thus, holding power over others might make it
easier for people to tell lies.'"

[delovski]

Slashdot Traffic Jams In Your Brain

"Carl Zimmer's latest foray into neuroscience examines why the brain can
get jammed up by a simple math problem: 'Its trillions of connections let it
carry out all sorts of sophisticated computations in very little time. You can
scan a crowded lobby and pick out a familiar face in a fraction of a second,
a task that pushes even today's best computers to their limit. Yet multiply-
ing 357 by 289, a task that demands a puny amount of processing, leaves
most of us struggling.' Some scientists think mental tasks can get stuck in
bottlenecks because everything have to go through a certain neural network
they call 'the router.'"

[XNote]

physorg.com - People are biased against creative ideas, studies find

"The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you
might just pity those co-workers. Fresh research indicates they don't
even know what a creative idea looks like and that creativity, hailed
as a positive change agent, actually makes people squirm."

reddit: "If you find yourself in a company where non-designers/cre-
ative types (in your specific field) are your direct boss(es), start plan-
ning your exit strategy."

[delovski]

edge.org - A Short Course In Thinking About Thinking

"we were really quite narrowly centered around two years; the range of
estimates that people had... was between 18 months and two and a half
years.

... thinking back to when they were at about the same state of progress
we had reached, after which I asked the obvious question—how long did
it take them to finish? ... he said roughly 40 percent of the groups he k-
new about never finished ... I cannot think of any group that finished in
less than seven years and I can't think of any that went on for more th-
an ten.


What psychologically to me was the truly insightful thing, was that he
had all the information necessary to conclude that the prediction he
was writing down was ridiculous."

[Ike]

Worth repeating - Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

"The problem with praising kids for their innate intelligence — the “smart”
compliment — is that it misrepresents the psychological reality of education.
It encourages kids to avoid the most useful kind of learning activities, which
is when we learn from our mistakes."

[Ike]

http://essays.backintyme.com/item/332

The Puzzle: Northern Europeans are Uniquely Depigmented

[Ike]

http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/diy_health_remedies/printer.php

18 Health Tricks to Teach Your Body

[delovski]

thelowdown - Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

"Research suggests that groups tend to value confidence more than competence."

[delovski]

aps - Everyday Sadists Take Pleasure In Others’ Pain

"Most of the time, we try to avoid inflicting pain on others — when we do
hurt someone, we typically experience guilt, remorse, or other feelings of
distress. But for some, cruelty can be pleasurable, even exciting. New
research suggests that this kind of everyday sadism is real and more
common than we might think."

[Ike]

One thing he learned early on is that not all errors are created equal. Not all false information goes on to become a false belief—that is, a more lasting state of incorrect knowledge—and not all false beliefs are difficult to correct. Take astronomy. If someone asked you to explain the relationship between the Earth and the sun, you might say something wrong: perhaps that the sun rotates around the Earth, rising in the east and setting in the west. A friend who understands astronomy may correct you. It’s no big deal; you simply change your belief.

But imagine living in the time of Galileo, when understandings of the Earth-sun relationship were completely different, and when that view was tied closely to ideas of the nature of the world, the self, and religion. What would happen if Galileo tried to correct your belief? The process isn’t nearly as simple. The crucial difference between then and now, of course, is the importance of the misperception. When there’s no immediate threat to our understanding of the world, we change our beliefs. It’s when that change contradicts something we’ve long held as important that problems occur.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/mariakonnikova/2014/05/why-do-people-persist-in-believing-things-that-just-arent-true.html?utm_source=www&utm_medium=tw&utm_campaign=20140519

[Ike]

http://mq.edu.au/newsroom/2014/08/12/the-evolution-of-pms-it-may-exist-to-break-up-infertile-relationships/

The evolution of PMS: It may exist to break up infertile relationships

[Ike]

nyt - Guilt and Atonement on the Path to Adulthood

"The key element is the difference between shame and guilt, Dr. Tangney
says. Shame, the feeling that you’re a bad person because of bad behavior,
has repeatedly been found to be unhealthy, she says, whereas guilty feelings
focused on the behavior itself can be productive."

[Ike]

psychology today - Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists

"Trolls truly enjoy making you feel bad. To quote the authors once more
(because this is a truly quotable article):

"Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. Sadists just
want to have fun ... and the Internet is their playground!"

[Ike]

http://www.nber.org/papers/w14969

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

[Ike]

wired - The Teen Brain “Shuts Down” When It Hears Mom’s Criticism

"Parents may benefit from understanding that when they criticize their
adolescents, adolescents may experience strong negative emotional
reaction, may have difficulty cognitively controlling this emotion and may
also find it challenging to understand the parent’s perspective or mental
state."

[Ike]

r - The Man Who Destroyed America’s Ego

"How a rebel psychologist challenged one of the 20th century’s biggest—
and most dangerous—ideas.

The dangers of narcissism became apparent to Baumeister when he
tested his theory that people with high self-esteem are largely responsi-
ble for violent acts. In one experiment, two people played a game in
which the loser is punished with unpleasant barrages of noise. Each player
sets the decibel level at which opponents get blasted. Would those with
high self-esteem, as Baumeister predicted, turn the sound up to the most
aggressive levels? Actually, no.
In fact, the effects of self-esteem on aggression appeared to be vanish-
ingly weak. But participants’ levels of narcissism had also been measured.
“People had just started talking about narcissism, which seems to be the
nasty kind of high self-esteem,” he says. “That had the strong effects. It
was people who were high in narcissism who were more provoked and
more aggressive than everybody else."

[Ike]

r - TIL Lawyer, Salesperson and Police Officer are Among the
Top 10 Jobs that Attract Psychopaths

"In the book “The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial
Killers Can Teach Us About Success,” Kevin Dutton explains that there are
jobs that can attract literal psychopaths – and also jobs that are least likely
to do so."

[Ike]

r - My father is planning to kill a bunch of people and then attack a police station....

"My father was always a sociopath, just believed the world owed him
something, never bothered to really pitch in. Shade tree mechanic /
journeyman kind of work, also grew and sold weed most of his life."

[Ike]

fastcompany - Working for the Boss from Hell

"I tell this story in the context of this month's cover package on psycho-
pathic bosses and the organizational havoc they wreak. As Martha Stout,
a psychologist at the Harvard Medical School, tells us, "People see socio-
pathy [a synonym for "psychopathy"] in their personal lives, and they
don't have a clue that it has a label or that others have encountered it."

[Ike]

http://digest.bps.org.uk/2009/01/how-weather-can-affect-your-memory.html

[XNote]

bbc - Men may have evolved better 'making up' skills

"Men's historical dominance of the workplace may, in part, be because of
their ability to reconcile with enemies after conflict, a new study suggests.

Researchers examined the aftermath of same-sex sporting events and fo-
und that men spent longer talking, touching or embracing their opponents
than women."

[delovski]

quartz - A philosopher's 350-year-old trick to get people to change
their minds is now backed up by psychologists

"When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he
errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side
it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side
on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not
mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended
at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that
perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and
that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of
our senses are always true."

[Ike]

bi - A Harvard psychologist's advice on how to argue when you know you're right

"Hard as it might be, the best thing to do when you're fighting with a
significant other isn't to persuade them you're right. That just breeds
negative feelings.

According to Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy, the best thing to do
when you're in a position of power is to listen."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5kqfi8/people_find_it_hard_to_maintain_eye_contact_when/

People find it hard to maintain eye contact when talking, possibly because the dual task of maintaining eye contact while also racking the brain for a word is just too demanding, so the brain pushes for breaking eye contact to focus exclusively on finding a word that will fulfill the obligation. (medicalxpress.com)

[Ike]

https://www2.gwu.edu/%7Eumpleby/mgt216/Mgt%20216%20Payne%20on%203%20Classes.ppt

[delovski]

The psychology of punishment is key to why people vote against their own interests

"Donald Trump would not be US president without the votes of many, in-
cluding Obamacare enrollees and immigrants, who are likely to find them-
selves worse off because of his policies. To some Democrat supporters, this
widespread voting against self-interests can seem impossible to understand.
To Molly Crockett, a neuroscientist and experimental psychologist at Oxford
University, it makes perfect sense."

[Ike]

It's Not About The Nail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

[Ike]

independent - WikiLeaks CIA files: Former intelligence chief claims
millennials leak secrets because of 'cultural differences'

"I don't mean to judge them at all but this group of Millennials and related
groups simply have different understandings of the words loyalty, secrecy
and transparency than certainly my generation did."

[Ike]

INFORMATION AVOIDANCE: HOW PEOPLE SELECT THEIR OWN REALITY

"Drawing on research in economics, psychology and sociology, Carnegie Mellon University's George Loewenstein, Russell Golman and David Hagmann illustrate how people select their own reality by deliberately avoiding information that threatens their happiness and wellbeing."

[delovski]

r - Storing a memory involves distant parts of the brain

"Through regular meditation I was able to focus on the world in front of me,
instead of worrying about what was going to happen or what hadn't happened
yet. It seems silly at first, and even still seems silly sometimes, but there is a
real change in how I interact with the world vs how I used to. One of the most
obvious benefits I've noticed day to day is a HUGE improvement in my memory
& ability to see the solution to problems."

[delovski]

wiki - Big Five personality traits

"The five factors are:

Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness &
Neuroticism."

[Ike]

https://np.reddit.com/r/SuddenlyGay/comments/caerzb/oh_how_the_turntables/et9i11r/

Yup.
It's funny because the term "alpha" originated from a dude studying wolves.
Published about it and later realized that the 'alpha and beta's... and just the
moms and dads of the pack...

[Ike]

https://np.reddit.com/r/AskFeminists/comments/cfdf9z/how_would_you_describe_right_wing_philosophy/eu9ufky/

This is why it can feel like talking to a brick wall sometimes when an ardent
progressive like myself talks to a staunch conservative about something like,
say, proper sex education. All the research shows that sex education and
promotion/availability of contraceptives reduces teen pregnancy and the
transmission of STIs. To me, that is the end of the discussion, because I'm
basing my views on public health and policies thereof on the care/harm axis.
Conservatives, however, have additional foundational axes, like
authority/subversion ("Kids should do what their parents/pastors say and not
have sex before marriage!") or sanctity/degradation ("Sex education will put
sinful thoughts in the minds of my innocent children and tempt them with
sex!") that frankly sound fictitious to me. There are times when I can't even
conceive of caring about some of the things that form fundamental pillars of
their moral worldview. The respect of authority for authority's sake is
particularly egregious to me.

[delovski]

r - Humility is unrelated to downplaying your positive traits and accomplishments

"Humility is unrelated to downplaying your positive traits and accomplish-
ments, suggests new research. Rather, what separates the humble from
the nonhumble is the belief that your positive traits and accomplishments
do not entitle you to special treatment, known as 'hypo-egoic nonentitle-
ment'."

[Ike]

r - Dogmatic people

"Dogmatic people are characterised by a belief that their worldview reflects an
absolute truth and are often resistant to change their mind, for example when
it comes to partisan issues. They seek less information and make less accurate
judgements as a result, even on simple matters."

[Ike]

r - Masculine insecurity predicts endorsement of aggressive politics and support for Donald Trump

"Masculine insecurity predicts endorsement of aggressive politics and support
for Donald Trump, suggests three studies, supporting the notion that men who
are likely to doubt their masculinity may support aggressive policies, politici-
ans, and parties, possibly as a means of affirming their manhood."

[Ike]

r - Conservatism is associated with a lesser ability to distinguish between true and false

"Study suggests that conservatism is associated with a lesser ability to dis-
tinguish between true and false claims across a wide range of political issues.
Socially engaging truthful claims tended to favor the left, while engaging
falsehoods disproportionately favored the right"

[Ike]

r - Liberals view emotions as a feature of rationality, while conservatives view it as a bug, study finds

"Liberals tend to show me humor based on things like clever word play, animals
or kids acting silly, or witty ironic turns of conversation.

I always feel like conservatives think I'm not laughing because I find their
humor offensive, whereas in reality I'm not laughing because I legit don't
find it funny.

Again, totally anecdotal, but it popped into my head since you mentioned
conservative humor."

[Ike]

The Best Decision-Making Is Emotional

"In this article, I unpack the recent neuroscience on the topic and share an
emotion processing tool I use with clients."

[Ike]

Doing This 1 Simple But Unexpected Thing While Taking A Walk Could Vastly Improve Your Health

"Keltner explained that finding awe and wonder on a walk (or anywhere else)
can be as simple as pausing and noticing the world around us -- from some-
thing as seemingly small as a newly blossomed flower to something as big as
a sunset stretched across the entire sky. Other sources of awe include what
he refers to as moral beauty -- witnessing the kindness or goodness or
generosity of other people -- or listening to music, seeing art and contem-
plating big ideas, all of which can happen during an awe walk."