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24 Jul 08

Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain

Insights into the brain as a muscle: when depleted it comes less effective. Making choices depletes what is known as executive resources, and "downstream" decisions are affected adversely when we are forced to choose with a fatigued brain. Annotated link

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18 May 08

The New Paternalism

Richard thaler and Cass Sunstein articulate an approach to designing social and economic policies that incorporates an understanding of people's cognitive limitations, nudging.

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01 May 08

Cognitive Dissonance in Monkeys - The Monty Hall Problem

The Monty Hall problem: Even when experimenters use elaborate methods of measuring preferences, the results are still suspect if the researchers haven't recognized that the choice during the experiment changes the odds.

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