Entries from Dangerous Ideas tagged with 'psychology'
Selling An Indefensible Status Quo
Stocks plummet on Wall Street. Home foreclosures mount across the country. Shameless finger pointing and disavowals swirl in the nation's capital. And a recent Gallup poll finds that a record-low 9% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are...
The Lure of False Narratives: Martians and Election Day
It's only fitting that a truly memorable demonstration of human gullibility will mark its 70th anniversary just before Election Day. On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of radio listeners concluded that Orson Welles' adaptation of The War of...
Anchors for Progressives
Imagine people randomly divided into two groups for a simple psychology experiment. Those assigned to one group are asked two questions. First, "Did Gandhi die before or after he reached the age of 140?" And then, "How old was Gandhi...
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