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  • 4 surprising ways to increase your willpower

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  • How to Persuade Anyone - The 25 Cognitive Biases by Charlie Munger

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    How to Persuade Anyone - The 25 Cognitive Biases by Charlie Munger
    If you want to learn how to Persuade people, then you must learn the 25 Cognitive Biases. Not all these biases work on everyone, and some biases will affect you more than others. What makes people make a decision depends on how many of these biases get activated at the same time. So not only will you learn how to persuade people, but this video will help to prevent you from getting scammed or making impulse decisions that you will later regret.

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  • CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: Anchoring HD

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    In this video, the cognitive scientist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the phenomenon of anchoring. She shows how arbitrary information sometimes can sometimes act as an anchor that affects our judgments in unexpected ways.

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  • What if? The key to making good decisions | Nidhi Kalra | TEDxManhattanBeach

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    Decisions would be so much easier if we had crystal balls to see into the future! But they don’t exist and the world is uncertain!. Nidhi challenges us to move away from making decisions by trying to predict the future, and towards making decisions that will accommodate many different possibilities. By asking What If? instead of What's Next? we can better prepare ourselves, our communities, and our world, for the uncertain future ahead.

    Nidhi Kalra is a senior information scientist at RAND Corporation, codirector of RAND's Center for Decision Making Under Uncertainty, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Kalra’s research at RAND Corporation addresses energy, environment, and science and technology policy. She recently led projects to ensure long-term water security in Lima, Peru and to provide policy guidance on autonomous vehicle technologies. Her clients include the State of California, the World Bank, the U.S. National Cooperative Highway Research Program, the Government of Qatar, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Department of Defense. In 2013, she served as a senior decision scientist in the Office of the Chief Economist of Sustainable Development at the World Bank. She has also developed educational technology tools to promote literacy among blind children in developing countries. Kalra received her Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

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  • How To Make Better Decisions

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    Here are 4 steps to make better decisions using the skills of scientific inquiry, idealistic inspiration, creative imagination and technical research. They are based on Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy Of Freedom which describes his Ethical Individualism.

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    Your decisions will be better if you apply these 4 skills: scientific inquiry, idealistic inspiration, creative imagination and technical research.
    We call this Ethical Individualism.

    Scientific Inquiry
    The first skill is scientific inquiry, with it we can make informed decisions.
    The Scientist relies on attentive observation and conceptual thinking skills to understand what is happening.
    In billiards we universalize the situation by connecting the concept of an elastic ball with the concepts motion, impact, and velocity.
    With universal conceptual thinking the scientist can understand how things work.
    We construct a conceptual model in our mind that corresponds to the observed event.
    In this way we can predict what will happen.
    When we predict an unfavorable future of budget problems, we may want to change it.
    To change something you need to be motivated.

    Idealistic Inspiration
    For motivation we look to Skill 2, idealistic inspiration.
    With it we are inspired by our ideals.
    Personal bias is not an ideal.
    Bias makes us narrow-minded and one-sided so we unfairly favor one group or point of view over others.
    Unbiased idealism is possible.
    The philosopher rigorously pursues unbiased truth just as the scientist does, with the use of conceptual thinking.
    With conceptual thinking we can make unbiased ethical decisions.
    Our example is a workplace situation where we observe that Jack the manager is upset with Julie the receptionist.
    What should you do?
    My friendship with Jack could cause me to unfairly take his side.
    To overcome bias we use conceptual thinking to select the right ethical ideal that will guide our action.
    We first add general concepts to construct a conceptual model of the situation in our mind.
    By universalizing the situation with general concepts like manager and worker we avoid triggering personal emotional bias.
    We add that the manager's behavior should be termed bullying.
    Conceptually, we have a manager who is bullying a worker.
    The situational concepts meet our various ideals in the conceptual realm.
    Pure reason now reflects on the conceptual content.
    You've got it!
    Thinking leads to an empowering insight, an intuition to protect our co-worker from harm.
    We call this experience Moral Intuition.
    Even though your ethical decision has universal characteristics, it remains an individual decision because our life situations are different, and the depth of each ones thinking is different.
    We now have our inspiring guiding principle, next we need to decide what specific action to take.

    Creative Imagination
    Skill 3 is creative imagination.
    A decision is better if we envision a clear goal.
    The ideal principle we selected in the previous step, protect from harm, needs to be imaginatively translated into a specific goal of action.
    We call this Moral Imagination.
    But artistic creativity seems mysterious.
    Not really, we can all have creative ideas when we place a pure, unclothed concept at the center of our focus.
    This sparks creativity to add detail.
    You've got an idea!
    The idea is to offer donuts to Jack and Julie to calm the situation.
    Having envisioned our goal we are driven by love, our love for the objective to protect Julie from harm.
    The power of love overcomes our fear and we act.

    Technical Research
    We conclude with skill 4, technical research.
    A decision is better if when we carry it out we do no harm.
    We need a plan for how to skillfully implement our goal into the world.
    We call this Moral Technique.
    The world that we want to change already exists, and operates according to natural and social laws.
    Unnecessary disruptions are caused by violating the laws of nature.
    Unnecessary disruptions are caused by violating the existing social customs that hold things together.
    To avoid disruption technicians study the existing science in their field.
    The workers did some research to learn about the work place and the rights of workers.
    They convinced management to provide training to prevent workplace bullying.
    All workplace bullying stopped.
    Your decisions will be better using the skills of the scientist, the philosopher, the artist, and the technician.

  • How to make better decisions | Dr. Joe Arvai | TEDxCalgary

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    This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Are you an architect or an archaeologist of your thoughts? As decision scientist Joe Arvai dissects how we make decisions, he draws parallels between construction principles and how we process information using a building code of goals, options, outcomes and trade-offs. By exploring doubts, reflecting on choices and monitoring if what we decide aligns with our values, Arvai teaches us how our decisions define us.

    Dr. Joe Arvai is Professor and Svare Chair in Applied Decision Research at the University of Calgary. He is based in the Department of Geography, the Institute for Public Health, and the Institute for Sustainable Energy Environment and Economy.

    He is an internationally recognized expert in the risk and decisions sciences. Arvai’s research explores how people process information and make decisions. His research is focused on developing and testing decision support systems that can be used by people to improve decision quality across a wide range of environmental, social, and economic contexts.

    Dr. Arvai is also a Senior Researcher at Decision Research in Eugene, Oregon, and an Adjunct Professor in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Arvai is also a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Board on Environmental Change and Society.

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  • Decisions

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    One day consists of 86400 seconds. Each containing countless options, possibilities, and decisions which only one can emerge. Each with the ability to create one life and erase another.

    A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

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  • 12 Cognitive Biases Explained - How to Think Better and More Logically Removing Bias

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    We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you make better decision in your life. Cognitive biases are flaws in logical thinking that clear the path to bad decisions, so learning about these ideas can reduce errors in your thought process, leading to a more successful life. These biases are very closely related to logical fallacies, which may help you win an argument or present information better.

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    1)Anchoring Bias
    2)Availability Heuristic bias
    3)Bandwagon Bias
    4)Choice Supportive Bias
    5)Confirmation Bias
    6)Ostrich Bias
    7)Outcome Bias
    8)Overconfidence
    9)Placebo bias
    10)Survivorship Bias
    11)Selective Perception Bias
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  • What small change in your life can make a big difference?

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  • Make the Right Choice: Three Steps to Effective Decision Making

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    Making an important decision is never easy, but making the right decision is even more challenging. Effective decision-making isn't just about accumulating information and going with what seems to make the most sense. Sometimes, internal biases can impact the way we seek out and process information, polluting the conclusions we reach in the process. It's critical to be conscious of those tendencies and to accumulate the sort of fact-based and unbiased inputs that will result in the highest likelihood that a decision actually leads to the desired outcome. In this video, Michael Mauboussin, Credit Suisse's Head of Financial Strategies, lays out three steps that can help focus a decision-maker's thinking.

  • Decision Making Skills: 5 Decision Making Tools

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    Decision Making Skills & Decision Making Tools. In this video Andrea Cairella, LPCC in Long Beach, CA covers decision making skills and decision making tools so effective decision making can occur. By learning the 5 decision making tools that lead to effective decision making you will be able to have the decision making skills necessary to live a peaceful, fulfilling and intentional life.

    C'mon over to where the main discussion happens after the episode.

    Want to develop your decision making skills? In today's video you'll learn the top 5 decision making tools you need so that you can start making effective decision making choices in your personal and professional life.

    1. Create A Pro And Con List- One decision making tool is to create a Pro and Con list for one option and a Pro and con list for the alternative option.

    2. Connect with Your Inner Wisdom- Each of us has an emotional aspect that chooses pleasure over pain and avoids hassles and discomfort. Take time to get still and listen to your inner voice by connecting with your body and your breath.

    3. Develop Effective Decision Making Skills: Sometimes we may 1st need to learn mindfulness skills so we can stay in the present moment or learn how to manage our emotions effectively.

    4. Rejecting the Need for Certainty- If you remind yourself that you cannot have certainty and that you don't need it, you can begin to harness your intuition and develop self-confidence and inner trust by making choices despite not knowing the precise outcome.

    5. Be Satisfied with your Decision- When making decisions, individuals are either maximizers or satisficers. Are you a satisficer or a maximize?

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  • Top 4 tricks on how to persuade anyone

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    Can you increase your IQ?

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    The simple riddle that 50% of Harvard students get wrong

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  • The simple psychological trick to exploit when bargaining

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    CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: Alief HD

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    In this video, the psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the philosopher Tamar Gendler (Yale University)'s concept of alief — an automatic or habitual mental attitude. The video discusses why aliefs differ from beliefs and how aliefs can affect our important decisions more than we expect.

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    How To Make Good Decisions

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    When uncertain or afraid, how do we free ourselves from delay, make good decisions, and take decisive action?

    1. Make decisions sooner:

    It's easier to make decisions earlier than later. For example, if you hate your job, make a decision to leave sooner. Yes, be judicious and and collect information...but don't get into analysis paralysis or become scared of change. Set a date and prepare. Making bold decisions for yourself is the secret to moving your life forward. Ask,What's decision have I been putting off in my personal life? What decision have I been waiting to make at work? What decision do I need to make in my relationships? Avoidance may be the best short-term strategy to avoid pain and conflict, but it is also the best long-term strategy to ensure suffering. Stop putting it off, make that decision and stick to it.

    2. Set criteria:

    Criteria means you look at your decision making from three perspectives: What's good for you? What supports other people around you? What should the universal rule be for everyone faced with this decision? This means you seriously contemplate if decisions are right for you, honoring of others, and generally good for most people. What other criteria could you set? Create a “cheat sheet to good decision-making” with your own criteria and keep it by your computer and in your wallet. Consult it at every important decision.

    3. Do intelligent research:

    Bad decisions are often a result of acting without any information, listening to the wrong people or forcing a false choice. Intelligent research means collecting as much information as possible from informed people. There's nothing you want to achieve or overcome in your life that someone hasn't already achieved or overcome. Before you make your decision, go out and consult other informed, happy, smart, joyous, accomplished people who have done what you want to do. Often, you'll find it's not just a matter of choosing A or B, but rather there are a multitude of choices available to you.

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    Can you see these optical illusions?

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    Why internet arguments are useless and how to start winning arguments

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    COGNITIVE EASE, CONFIRMATION BIAS, ENDOWMENT EFFECT - THINKING, FAST AND SLOW

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    Hacking into the power of social networks

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    4 Mental Shortcuts That Cloud Your Judgement

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    These cognitive biases affect how we make decisions–and it often happens subconsciously.
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  • Ellens monologue about making decisions

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    life is more complicated now...

  • Alan Watts: Making Decisions

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    Below is a well thought out response from a poster named Dogan K. He touches up on the key elements of what Watts said in the video. I think a lot of you might find it helpful.

    Lovely video. I would like to share my interpretation of what you have asked here...

    To understand What I want basically is what you want, but I don't know what you want...surprise me.. He then says but that's the kinship between 'I and thou'. If you read up on I-it and I-thou, you find out this definition...
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    The It of I-It refers to the world of experience and sensation. I-It describes entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set (e.g., he, she or any other objective entity defined by what makes it measurably different from other entities). It can be said that I have as many distinct and different relationships with each It as there are Its in one's life. Fundamentally, It refers to the world as we experience it.

    By contrast, the word pair I-Thou describes the world of relations. This is the I that does not objectify any It but rather acknowledges a living relationship. I-Thou relationships are sustained in the spirit and mind of an I for however long the feeling or idea of relationship is the dominant mode of perception.
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    So this is he means when he says What I want.. basically is what you want.... because your decision is just as important and accepted as his, because he's relating to you rather than being objective to you; just like empathy with a mother to their baby.

    When he says you don't know yourself, because you never can.. he means that you can't GENUINLY understand....anything you decide comes from your ego and can't be trusted to have your best interest. What he means by i don't know is that it symbolises any situation where your have let up control of yourself, not motivated by self interest....and your ego won't now cloud your judgement,A Hintergedanken - which is something which you know deep down, way at the back of your mind, that you don’t want to admit...is also another thing which can help understand this...only once you are truly honest with yourself can you make honest actions or thoughts. So by acknowledging this, you have quote cease to cling to yourself and voluntarily let up control... once you do this then you can truly find peace within yourself and have much more clarity to your situations. One quick example would be...if you had an argument with your wife and a friend asked you 'why did she get angry'? Would it be more rationale to ask your wife first rather than explain to the best of your knowledge...The friend will see the mistrust in your explanation because your ego has missed the underlying issues that you have chosen to ignore. Saying i don't know is the same as letting go of the way it was perceived by you which is what you base your choices on and finding out the what really happened and making a choice with all people in mind or you could say its like this stop making excuses to why I didn't achieve what I set out and finding the underlining or fundamental reason that's stopping me.

    This is what is also meant by The godhead is never the object of its own knowledge, just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, life doesn't illumine itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself. I don't know.

    ...when you reach this stage, you can separate your decisions from how it makes you feel, which then makes you more connected with the now and whats really going on. This is when you become desireless, meaning you have no motive, unbiased, sitting-on-the-fence...and by being like this, you're working with the energy, not against it, you can make the best decisions with the best outcomes because the decision can now be trusted.

    ....finally, just want to add more understanding to the godhead reference....ultimately we can never truly know because you are trying to find out about the your mind, with your mind....you can never know more than what you know because you are limited to all that is only known to your mind. So you need to find the one in you that knows that you know lol..a bit of a wacky statement but it's one of the most important things to understand....this is the why it's all about letting go, and going with the flow..
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  • Cognitive Dissonance

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    In 1959, 71 students in an introductory course at Stanford University participated in an experiment that was advertised as dealing with Measures of Performance. The subjects were told that they may be asked to give feedback on the experiment since the department is looking to improve the experiments in the future. More at

  • Only 3% of people pass this creative test, can you?

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    Cognition: How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You - Crash Course Psychology #15

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    Cognitive Biases: What They Are, Why Theyre Important

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    As critical thinkers, it's important to understand how we OUGHT to reason. This is what we learn when we study logic, argumentation and other normative theories of reasoning. But it's equally important to understand how we IN FACT reason, how our minds ACTUALLY work.

    Every critical thinker should be familiar with the concept of a cognitive bias. In this episode of The Critical Thinker podcast I give an overview of what cognitive biases are and why they're important. In the next episode I'll look at some examples of cognitive biases in action.

  • Are we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely

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    Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.

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  • Is the number 1 fact about willpower wrong?

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    Theories about willpower affecting ego depletion

    Ego Depletion- Is It All in Your Head? Implicit Theories About Willpower Affect Self-Regulation
    Implicit Theories About Willpower Predict Self-Regulation and Grades in Everyday Life

  • Baba Shiv: How to Make Better Decisions

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    Baba Shiv demystifies the brain chemistry that controls our decision making, and explains how you can regulate it to make better decisions. He also uses the latest neuroscience research to answer the question, Is it better to make decisions in the morning or the afternoon? Shiv is the Sanwa Bank Limited professor of marketing, and director of the Strategic Marketing Management Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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    CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: The GI Joe Fallacy HD

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    In this video, Laurie Santos (Yale University) discusses why knowing about our cognitive biases is not enough to overcome them. She’ll introduce a new cognitive error known as the G.I. Joe Fallacy, the tendency for our biases to stick around even when we should know better.

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  • 8 Too Funny and Short IQ and Riddles For Kids

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    8 Too Funny and Short IQ and Riddles For Kids. These are the best 8 Too Funny and Short IQ and Riddles For Kids with answers.

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  • Why were trying to spot liars the wrong way

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    Eric Kandel: Unconscious Decision Making

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    Nobel-Prize winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel describes new research which hints at the possibility of a biological basis to the unconscious mind.

    Eric Kandel: Reductionism acknowledges from the outset that I'm not looking at the whole picture; I'm only looking at part of the picture. But the reason I'm doing that is because I really want to understand that. Looking at the whole picture is too complicated. So, when Harvey was trying to understand how the body works, he focused in on the heart and he realized that the function of the heart is not to serve as the soul, but to serve as a muscular pump that pushes blood around the circulation.  So I know that your heart and my heart is not the seat of my soul or your soul; it's a pump.  Does that make it any less magical?  Do I have less respect for your heart or my heart because I realize how it functions?  No.  Number one.  Number two, once you understand how components function, you'll want to put it into the context of the body as a whole--what are the major arteries that come out of the heart, how do they feed oxygen to the muscles in the body, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera?  So we want to do a reductionism in order to understand particular components, but then as Paul Allen is showing, we need to put the components together.  We need a new synthesis.  And so we need to put it in a larger context.  So that leaves the residual issue as to what degree does the acknowledgment that all mental function, including my religious beliefs, emanate from the brain.  People have difficulty with it.  They want to think there's a mind out there some place that carries on after I'm dead and that mediates a lot of these spiritual values, and I don't find good evidence to support that as far as I can tell.  All mental functions, from the most trivial reflex to the most sublime creative experience, come from the brain.  We have reason to believe that some aspects of free will you are not consciously aware of.  I don't think that necessarily means that you're not free, but you're not consciously aware of it.  And the background from that comes from a famous experiment that Benjamin Libet did, and I forget when it was, 1971, thereabouts, in which he did a fascinating experiment.  He asked subjects to make a decision to move their hand and to indicate by pressing a button when they're making that decision.  And he had electrodes on their head, and it turned out that before I made a decision to move my hand, an electrical potential appeared in my brain that preceded my conscious decision to move the hand.  So you can be aware of my wanting to move the hand consciously without my being aware of it.  That means the decision was made unconsciously.Now, when Ben Libet came out with that, it shook up the scientific community.  Do you think Freud would have been surprised about that?  He said from the very beginning, much of our mental life is unconscious.  We now know we make a lot of decisions, we choose our partner in part by unconscious evaluations.  There are lots of decisions that are made unconsciously then consciously. Conscious decision-making is very good when there are two alternatives because you can focus consciously very effectively on one thing at a time.  If you've got a lot of options . . . now this was not my case, but you who have lots of women who are interested in you, probably can choose from many of them.  That decision that you have to make is likely to be more effective if you make it unconsciously.  So there is now a whole psychology on unconscious decision-making that is emerging, in part stimulated by Libet's interest but also a continuation from Freud's interest.  

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  • What every student should know about university

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  • Unmasking the hidden paradox in data

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    Choosing Those Who Will Die: Race and the Death Penalty in Florida

    Sex Bias in Graduate Admissions: Data From Berkeley

  • Why you shouldnt trust successful peoples advice

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  • Why night light is messing up your sleep

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  • Why hashtag activism isnt enough to change the world

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    Good Samaritan study


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    Tetanus experiment

  • These 2 riddles are the same. So why is one harder?

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  • Why youre trying to beat boredom the wrong way

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    How to make hard choices | Ruth Chang

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    Here's a talk that could literally change your life. Which career should I pursue? Should I break up — or get married?! Where should I live? Big decisions like these can be agonizingly difficult. But that's because we think about them the wrong way, says philosopher Ruth Chang. She offers a powerful new framework for shaping who we truly are.

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  • Who do we discriminate against the most?

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  • How the Fine Bros almost got away with it all

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  • 99% Cant Solve Without Pausing This Video

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    99% Can't Solve Without Pausing This Video. Find Spongebob. For more riddles puzzles mysteries and IQ questions please subscribe to our channel.


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  • HOW TO BUILD CONFIDENCE LIKE ZEUS | HAILED FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS

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    Find out how to build confidence like Zeus. This information hails from Mount Olympus. Enjoy! ;)

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