A study in the journal Psychological Science showed that there is a correlation between the feeling of gratitude and financial impatience. The team of researchers assessed impatience by having people choose between instant gratification (receiving $54 now) or being rewarded for waiting longer ($80 in 30 days). Before making their decision, participants were randomly assigned […]
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New research out of China suggests that if people know what the average opinion on a given subject is, they will change their personal opinion to be closer to the average opinion They will do this even if there is no social pressure to hold an opinion similar to the average opinion Interestingly, this effect
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Research out of Carnegie Mellon and Harvard suggests that people tend to give more weight to thoughts that “come out of nowhere” versus ideas that arrive through a deliberate process Rather than dismissing spontaneous thoughts as meaningless or random, people tend to assume these thoughts contain more meaningful insight Even on important topics such as
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Most people believe that “experts” are made, the product of deliberate practice rather than born out of innate ability (think Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule for his 2008 book Outliers). A new Princeton University study suggests the amount of practice accumulated over time does not seem to play as big of a role as originally thought
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