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	<title>Alphaverse.com&#187; Hyperborean</title>
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		<title>Rumor: LHC Sees Hint of the Higgs Boson</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/rumor-lhc-sees-hint-of-the-higgs-boson/2011/04</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A leaked internal memo from physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva reports a whiff of the Higgs boson, the long-sought theoretical particle that could make or break the standard model of particle physics. The preliminary note, which is still under review, was posted April 21 in an anonymous comment on physicist Peter [...]
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		<title>Huh, WTF?! Evidence for Alien life found?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know one of those ordinary sunday mornings when you get up, it&#8217;s a beautiful day, you look out of the window, you see a yellow bulldozer, you make a toast, make some coffee, look once again out of the window, reed an article about some guy claiming he has found evindence of alien life, [...]
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		<title>Quantum Entanglement Could Stretch Across Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the weird world of quantum physics, two linked particles can share a single fate, even when they’re miles apart.Now, two physicists have mathematically described how this spooky effect, called entanglement, could also bind particles across time. If their proposal can be tested, it could help process information in quantum computers and test physicists’ basic [...]
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		<title>Victoria Secret really does help you be more glamorous. Yes, yes, really!</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/victoria-secret-does-help-you-be-more-glamorous-no-really/2011/01</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Can a Victoria’s Secret shopping bag make you feel glamorous?” -Via PhysOrg Certain brands have personalities that can actually change the way some people feel about themselves, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. “Why are brands such as Cartier, Harley-Davidson, and Nike so well-liked by consumers? One of the reasons [...]
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		<title>Android Devices</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/nexus-s-galaxy-s-droid-xoom/2011/01</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nieuws over Android devices De nieuwste Samsung Galaxy S I9000 schaart zich direct bij de absolute top onder de Android Smartphones. Met de 1Ghz ‘Hummingbird’ processor en het 4 inch Super AMOLED Touchscreen werkt het Android besturingssysteem niet alleen supersnel, het ziet er ook nog eens geweldig uit. Ondanks een levendig geruchtencircuit, is er nog bar [...]
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		<title>Brain Volume Linked to Social Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<title>Interview with Richard Bookstaber</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/interview-with-richard-bookstaber/2010/12</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Introduction Via Nancy Miller @ Fortune Richard Bookstaber, veteran Wall Street risk manager and hedge fund manager, made a splash on the eve of the financial meltdown with the publication of Demon of Our Own Design, a book that warned the markets had grown too complex and were headed for a crash. [...]
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		<title>How not to encourage home ownership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Excerpt (Via Economic Logic) Many governments try to encourage home ownerships by various means. I am not convinced this needs encouraging, as it leads to over-acucmulation of residential capital. Additionally, it is a myth that home ownners are happier and better citizens, as I reported previously. But suppose, for a moment, that [...]
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		<title>Interview: Nocera on the Crisis and All the Devils Are Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Introduction &#38; Interview Via Russ Roberts &#8220;Joe Nocera, New York Times columnist and co-author with Bethany McLean of All the Devils Are Here, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins of the financial crisis. Drawing on his book, Nocera identifies many people he considers devils for contributing to the crisis [...]
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		<title>Andrew Carnegie: “The Road To Business Success: A Talk To Young Men”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Fascinating find via the great Joe Koster @ Value Investing World One of my favorite excerpts (via History Tools) The speculator and the business man tread diverging lines. The former depends upon the sudden turn of fortune&#8217;s wheel; he is a millionnaire to-day, a bankrupt to-morrow. But the man of business knows [...]
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		<title>Must Read: Group Schadenfreude – How Groups Enjoy Other’s Misery!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com This is pretty interesting stuff, enjoy! Via Emily Anthes Scientists who study schadenfreude are learning that this secret happiness at another person’s loss has biological underpinnings. The feeling registers in the brain as a distinct form of pleasure, a satisfaction comparable to that of eating a good meal. In a study published [...]
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		<title>When being wasteful appears better than feeling wasteful</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/when-being-wasteful-appears-better-than-feeling-wasteful/2010/12</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Abstract “Waste not want not” expresses our culture’s aversion to waste. “I could have gotten the same thing for less” is a sentiment that can diminish pleasure in a transaction. We study people’s willingness to “pay” to avoid this spoiler. In one scenario, participants imagined they were looking for a rental apartment, [...]
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		<title>Exploring the time-saving bias: How drivers misestimate time saved when increasing speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Abstract via JDM According to the time-saving bias, drivers underestimate the time saved when increasing from a low speed and overestimate the time saved when increasing from a relatively high speed. Previous research used a specific type of task — drivers were asked to estimate time saved when increasing speed and to [...]
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		<title>Awesome Video! Psychology of Conformity, Groupthink, &amp; Wikileaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Introduction (via BrainPickings) Groupthink is one of the most troublesome downfalls of organized society. Today, it manifests itself on a sliding scale of severity, ranging from genocide to bullying to superstition to fashion fads to the “Digg mentality” of news reporting. Still, most of us refuse to believe that our opinions, perception [...]
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		<title>God’s little rabbits: Religious people out-reproduce secular ones by a landslide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com This is very interesting, but you have to read it with the right mindset. Excerpt (via Scientific American) What’s that famous quote, by Edna St. Vincent Millay? Oh, yes: &#8220;I love humanity but I hate people.&#8221; It’s a sentiment that captures my normal misanthropically tinged type of humanitarianism well, but it roars [...]
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		<title>Business Uses Cialdini Influence Principles To Curb Energy Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Introduction (Via HBS) We like to think that our actions are the result of independent conclusions drawn from fact-based information. But behavioral scientists have long shown that we humans are often more influenced by what others are doing than we might like to admit. A new case written by HBS assistant professor [...]
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		<title>Ambiguity aversion and the propensities for self-insurance and self-protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com And we&#8217;re back&#8230;This abstract seems like a tongue twister. Abstract (Via Arthur Snow @ Springer) Two models of ambiguity preferences that permit comparative statics analysis of greater ambiguity aversion yield definite predictions concerning propensities for self-insurance and self-protection: The levels of both activities that are optimal for an ambiguity-averse decision maker are [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com I enjoyed Steven Pinker&#8217;s bit&#8230; Introduction (Via MIT World) Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of disciplines and with wide knowledge of the worlds of academia and publishing [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com This is where it gets interesting  (Via Bora Zivkovic @ Science Progress) For the sake of this article, I will use two simplified definitions of science and journalism. Journalism is communication of ‘what’s new’. A journalist is anyone who can say “I’m there, you’re not, let me tell you about it.” Science [...]
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		<title>All Value Investors Must Read This! Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Fascinating and scary&#8230;.now you guys know why I don&#8217;t believe in buying love, I mean diamonds. Wink. Introduction (Via Jay Epstein @ Atlantic) The diamond invention—the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem—is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com I probably cause some harm in this, mea culpa Via one of my favorite sites, The Invisible Gorilla My concern is about media reporting and even blogging about new and provocative scientific findings, the very findings that tend to decline. Following a murder, the arrest of a suspect is broadcast on the [...]
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter isn’t prepared to say just how well its advertising initiatives are going — as a private company, it doesn’t have to. But days after the micro-blogging phenom said it had accepted a $200 million cash infusion, the company is acknowledging that it literally doesn’t have enough sales people to keep up with voracious advertiser [...]
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		<title>Universe’s Quantum Weirdness Limits Its Weirdness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more one probes the universe at smaller and smaller scales, the weirder matter and energy seem to behave. But this strangeness may limit its own extent in quantum mechanics, the theory describing the behavior of matter at an infinitesimal level, according to a new study by an ex-hacker and a physicist. “We’re interested in [...]
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the insurgency raged in Iraq, U.S. troops struggling to fight a shadowy enemy killed civilians, witnessed their Iraqi partners abuse detainees and labored to reduce Iran’s influence over the fighting. None of these phenomena are unfamiliar to observers of the Iraq war. But this afternoon, the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks released a trove of nearly 392,000 U.S. [...]
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		<title>&#8220;Federal Reserve &#8216;Will Be Gone&#8217; In 25 Years!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He said it over and over again, yet he's now even more eloquent. Taleb states that: <i>"Federal Reserve 'Will Be Gone' In 25 Years, Top Financial Mind Predicts, Despite Geithner's Vote Of Confidence" </i> The impact and importance of the underestimated book The Black Swan still doesn't seize to amaze me...
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Tim Geithner did not predict the economic crisis, Nassim Taleb has no interest in listening to him talk about it now. The author of The Black Swan, a book about risk and probability theory, told National Journal&#8217;s Matthew Cooper that he did not listen to Geithner, who preceded him at the Washington Ideas Forum. [...]
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com Introduction &#38; Excerpt (via Barbara Breckinridge &#38;  Matthew S Mc Glone @ SciAm) Pity the poor, forlorn foreign graduate teaching assistant at an American university – far from home and family, living on a meager stipend, cramming by day and grading by night, fielding questions from undergraduates like “Do people wear regular clothes [...]
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Via BPS Research Imagine you sampled two jams, chose your favourite, and were then offered another taste of it before being asked to explain your preference. Would you notice that you&#8217;d been offered the wrong one, that you were actually tasting the jam you&#8217;d turned down? A new study conducted at [...]
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Abstract Via Nurkan &#38; Bicakova Counselling agencies assist borrowers in financial difficulties by administering repayment plans, the so calleddebt management plans (DMPs). In this paper, we use unique administrative data from a major credit counselling agency in the UK to analyze the determinants of debt repayment performance of approximately 60.000 borrowers [...]
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		<title>Two Is the Magic Number: A new science of creativity – The Myth of the Lonesome Creative</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Updated View of Risk &amp; Return via Eric Falkenstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . P.S. I&#8217;m a fan of Falken&#8230; H/T Stingy News Introduction (Via Falken Blog) I think my paper is superior to the standard Corporate Finance course you will learn in college or graduate school. This is because they neglect to mention the fundamental theory that risk and expected return are positively correlated, [...]
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Carmen M. Reinhart: Diminished expectations, double dips, and external shocks: The decade after the fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Synopsis Is the global economic recovery about to grind to a halt? This column provides evidence on economic performance in the decade after a macroeconomic crisis. It finds that growth is much slower and as well as several episodes of “double dips”. It adds that many of these economies experience plain [...]
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		<title>How The Innocent Confess To Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Excerpt (via JOHN SCHWARTZ) Professor Garrett said he was surprised by the complexity of the confessions he studied. “I expected, and think people intuitively think, that a false confession would look flimsy,” like someone saying simply, “I did it,” he said. Instead, he said, “almost all of these confessions looked uncannily [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Via Deric Bownds When people make decisions they often face opposing demands for response speed and response accuracy, a process likely mediated by response thresholds. According to the striatal hypothesis, people decrease response thresholds by increasing activation from cortex to striatum, releasing the brain from inhibition. According to the STN hypothesis, [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . By: Martin L. Leibowitz There is a great philosophical divide between passive, efficiency based “beta grazers” and active “alpha hunters.” The explosive growth of hedge funds, of both the traditional and the long-only format, has contributed to this widening chasm between intensely proactive investors and those funds that are indexed or [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Abstract (via Rabbin) This essay provides a perspective on the trend towards integrating psychology into economics. Some topics are discussed, and arguments are provided for why movement towards greater psychological realism in economics will improve mainstream economics. Click Here To Read: A Perspective on Psychology &#038; Economics Other Related Posts From [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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