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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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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com I find this very hard to believe&#8230;oh wait, the science might be so so but  the link with facebook, that&#8217;s very questionable. Excerpt (Via Wired) The size of your amygdala might indicate how large and complex your social network is. Amygdala volume has been connected to social network and behavior in past [...]
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		<title>Interview with Richard Bookstaber</title>
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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>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Video: MIT World- Humanities in the Digital Age</title>
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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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		<title>The Line Between Science and Journalism is Getting Blurry…Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Don’t change your worldview based on one study</title>
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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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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What do I want? Don’t ask me: Choice blindness at the market stall</title>
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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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		<title>Self Control &amp; Debt: Evidence from credit counseling</title>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Think Charlie Munger&#8230;Warren Buffett&#8230;.and many other famous duos&#8230; Introduction (Via Joshua WolfShenk@ Slate) What makes creative relationships work? How do two people—who may be perfectly capable and talented on their own—explode into innovation, discovery, and brilliance when working together? These may seem to be obvious questions. Collaboration yields so much of [...]
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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>
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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>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/how-the-innocent-confess-to-crime/2010/09</link>
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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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		<title>Differences in brain connectivity drive cognitive differences</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/differences-in-brain-connectivity-drive-cognitive-differences/2010/09</link>
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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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		<title>Alpha Hunters and Beta Grazers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>A Prespective on Psychology &amp; Economics</title>
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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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		<title>Mark Zuckerberg opens up: The Face of Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What’s More Potent, Testosterone or the Power of Belief?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Introduction (David Di Salvo&#8230;Psychology Today) When most people think of testosterone, words like &#8220;aggression,&#8221; &#8220;dominance,&#8221; and &#8220;violence&#8221; usually come to mind. Those words are memetically linked with testosterone the way &#8220;expensive&#8221; is linked with diamonds, and most of us have adopted the linkage without thinking much about it. Collectively, we&#8217;ve adopted [...]
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		<title>Young, male, testosterone-fueled CEOs more likely to start or drop deals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Abstract (via PhysOrg) Too much testosterone can be a deal breaker, according to Sauder School of Business researchers at the University of British Columbia. Their paper, to be published in the INFORMS journal Management Science on September 10, shows that young CEOs with more of the steroidal hormone in their system [...]
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		<title>Consumers will pay more for goods they can touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Thank god we can&#8217;t touch stocks&#8230; Synopsis: We&#8217;ve all heard the predictions: e-commerce is going to be the death of traditional commerce; online shopping spells the end of the neighborhood brick-and-mortar store. Excerpts: Most behavioral theories assume that the form of the presentation should not matter, notes Caltech graduate student Benjamin [...]
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		<title>What’s the science of sustainability?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Via Yale&#8217;s QN The field of industrial ecology seeks to provide definite answers to such questions as whether it&#8217;s better to read a book in paper or electronic form or whether garbage dumps might become more efficient sources of some metals than mines. By tracking energy and material flows and producing [...]
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		<title>WOW: Social Exclusion Causes People to Spend and Consume Strategically in the Service of Affiliation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Abstract (Via CJCR) Nicole L. Mead, Roy F. Baumeister, Tyler F. Stillman, Catherine D. Rawn, and Kathleen D. Vohs When people&#8217;s deeply ingrained need for social connection is thwarted by social exclusion, profound psychological consequences ensue. Despite the fact that social connections and consumption are central facets of daily life, little [...]
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		<title>Handling uncertainty about climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . &#8220;Very interesting discussion&#8230; Via Understanding Uncertainty The guidance follows the work of Risbey and Kandlikar in recommending that the precision of any statement about an unknown quantity should depend on the quality of the available evidence, and that numerical probability statements should only be made about well-defined events and when there [...]
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		<title>Why Brands Produce Priming Effects and Slogans Produce Reverse Priming Effects</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/why-brands-produce-priming-effects-and-slogans-produce-reverse-priming-effects/2010/09</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Abstract (Via  Juliano Laran, Amy N. Dalton, and Eduardo B. Andrade) Five experiments demonstrate that brands cause priming effects (i.e., behavioral effects consistent with those implied by the brand), whereas slogans cause reverse priming effects (i.e., behavioral effects opposite to those implied by the slogan). For instance, exposure to the retailer [...]
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		<title>Video: The Cartoon Introduction to Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Introduction (via Google Talks) The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has paired up with the worlds only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, PhD, to take the dismal out of the dismal science. From the optimizing individual to game theory to price theory, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics is the most digestible, explicable, and [...]
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		<title>Do Investors See Through Mistakes in Reported Earnings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Abstract (Salavei, Golec, Harding) This study investigates whether investors see through materially misstated earnings, and whether they anticipate earnings restatements. For firms that restate at least one annual report, we find that investors are misled by mistakes in reported earnings at the time of initial earnings announcements. Investors react positively to [...]
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		<title>You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain’s Representations of the Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Introduction (Via Haggard &#038; Longo @ SciAm) A recent paper in Psychological Science elegantly illustrates the plasticity of body representation, and provides further evidence that representations of the body really do expand to include ‘external’ objects we hold. Thomas Carlson of the University of Maryland and colleagues at Harvard University and [...]
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		<title>Sports &amp; Die-Hard Fandom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Via PhysOrg Since it takes a long time to establish a bond between fan and team, a team&#8217;s stability in the marketplace only adds to its popularity,&#8221; Tainsky said. &#8220;So if you&#8217;re watching a game in your new city, you have no relationship with your new city, and are going be [...]
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		<title>How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear: Beyond “Heuristics and Biases”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Fun read!! Abstract (Via Gigerenzer) Most so-called “errors” in probabilistic reasoning are in fact not violations of probability theory. Examples of such “errors” include overconfi dence bias, conjunction fallacy, and base-rate neglect. Researchers have relied on a very narrow normative view, and have ignored conceptual distinctions—for example, single case versus relative [...]
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		<title>How Ant Foraging Can Explain Herding &amp; Epidemics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original source: SimoleonSense.com . Abstract Via Alan Kirman This paper offers an explanation of behavior that puzzled entomologists and economists. Ants, faced with two identical food sources, were observed to concentrate more on one of these but, after a period, they would turn their attention to the other. The same phenomenon has been observed in [...]
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