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Your Brain on Conflict

Conflict escalates cognitive rigidity by activating the brain's salience system.

Techniques like deep breathing can help manage emotional responses during conflict.

Viewing conflict as a challenge rather than a threat alters engagement.

Building conflict resilience enhances relationships and overall well-being.

The Problem With Experience

Expertise is achieved through self-directed efforts, not just training programs or coaching.

Gaining experience over time alone is insufficient for true expertise.

Practical Benchmarking: How To Detect Performance Changes in Noisy Results

The phenomenon of pareidolia illustrates how perceptions can mislead, similar to misinterpretations in performance data analysis.

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Designing for Decision Making: The Psychology of Choice

UX design directly impacts everyday decision-making in digital spaces, balancing efficiency and user autonomy.

Reducing the two UX gulfs: Gulf of execution and gulf of evaluation - LogRocket Blog

Understanding the Gulf of Execution and Evaluation is crucial for creating intuitive user experiences.

How Cognitive Ease Helps Consumers Make Quick Decisions (2024) - Shopify

Cognitive ease aids customer understanding and decision-making, making intuitive design crucial for marketers.

How can Miller's law make UX better? - LogRocket Blog

Miller's law is essential for UX design, emphasizing the importance of limiting choices to enhance user experience.

Why put dots in a virtual canvas

Dotted canvases help mitigate blank canvas disorientation, providing visual cues for position and scale in a minimalist way.

Using the Von Restorff effect to capture user attention - LogRocket Blog

The Von Restorff effect aids in making distinctive items memorable, enhancing user experience.

Designing for Decision Making: The Psychology of Choice

UX design directly impacts everyday decision-making in digital spaces, balancing efficiency and user autonomy.

Reducing the two UX gulfs: Gulf of execution and gulf of evaluation - LogRocket Blog

Understanding the Gulf of Execution and Evaluation is crucial for creating intuitive user experiences.

How Cognitive Ease Helps Consumers Make Quick Decisions (2024) - Shopify

Cognitive ease aids customer understanding and decision-making, making intuitive design crucial for marketers.

How can Miller's law make UX better? - LogRocket Blog

Miller's law is essential for UX design, emphasizing the importance of limiting choices to enhance user experience.

Why put dots in a virtual canvas

Dotted canvases help mitigate blank canvas disorientation, providing visual cues for position and scale in a minimalist way.

Using the Von Restorff effect to capture user attention - LogRocket Blog

The Von Restorff effect aids in making distinctive items memorable, enhancing user experience.

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#learning-strategies

Many People Avoid Studying Properly

Self-explanation is a highly effective strategy for learning complex material, yet not widely adopted due to misconceptions about its difficulty.

The Science of Learning | eLearning

E-learning must be designed based on cognitive psychology to enhance retention and application of knowledge.

Chunking content to improve UX design - LogRocket Blog

Chunking enhances memory retention by breaking complex information into smaller, manageable pieces.

Many People Avoid Studying Properly

Self-explanation is a highly effective strategy for learning complex material, yet not widely adopted due to misconceptions about its difficulty.

The Science of Learning | eLearning

E-learning must be designed based on cognitive psychology to enhance retention and application of knowledge.

Chunking content to improve UX design - LogRocket Blog

Chunking enhances memory retention by breaking complex information into smaller, manageable pieces.

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The Trillion-Dollar Blindspot

Our perception of money has changed significantly, leading to desensitization towards large sums.

Why Do People Believe Things That Aren't True?

False beliefs arise from human nature, not necessarily from a lack of intelligence or knowledge.

Mistrust and motivated reasoning significantly contribute to the maintenance of false beliefs.

#personal-growth

Want Better Answers? Start Asking Better Questions

The way we frame questions shapes responses and perspectives.

Positive, possibility-driven questions lead to growth and solutions.

Finding Growth in Uncertainty

Disorientation experiences disrupt conventional thinking, leading to confusion but ultimately encouraging personal growth and resilience.

A Simple Formula for Making Career Decisions

Your brain may resist beneficial choices due to fear of pain and risk, even when change promises growth.

Dissecting your reasoning can clarify your true motivations for making decisions.

Want Better Answers? Start Asking Better Questions

The way we frame questions shapes responses and perspectives.

Positive, possibility-driven questions lead to growth and solutions.

Finding Growth in Uncertainty

Disorientation experiences disrupt conventional thinking, leading to confusion but ultimately encouraging personal growth and resilience.

A Simple Formula for Making Career Decisions

Your brain may resist beneficial choices due to fear of pain and risk, even when change promises growth.

Dissecting your reasoning can clarify your true motivations for making decisions.

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Talking Headways Podcast: The Cognitive Experience of a Transit User - Streetsblog USA

Creating safe environments for pedestrians promotes mind wandering, enhancing mental well-being during commutes.

Why I retracted part of my PhD dissertation

Laura Steenbergen faced ethical dilemmas in research practices under her mentor but remained committed to her scientific career.

AI vs. the Imperfect Human Brain

AI's development may require embracing imperfections and ambiguity similar to human cognition for significant advancements.

Princeton neuroscientists studied how your brain decides to jaywalk. Their findings could help train cheaper LLMs

New research reveals how the prefrontal cortex filters conflicting stimuli during decision-making processes.

The evolutionary benefits of being forgetful

Forgetting helps prioritize important information, enabling better memory retention.

AI vs. the Imperfect Human Brain

AI's development may require embracing imperfections and ambiguity similar to human cognition for significant advancements.

Princeton neuroscientists studied how your brain decides to jaywalk. Their findings could help train cheaper LLMs

New research reveals how the prefrontal cortex filters conflicting stimuli during decision-making processes.

The evolutionary benefits of being forgetful

Forgetting helps prioritize important information, enabling better memory retention.

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Breaking Boxes: Countering Bias in AI and Human Thinking

Human brains oversimplify reality through labels, perpetuating stereotypes and binary thinking.

AI systems amplify human biases through data and design.

The 4-step A-Frame helps mitigate bias in society.

Assassins and Their Fixations

Extreme overvalued beliefs (EOBs) significantly influence the motivations of many assassins, reflecting cultural fanaticism rather than clinical delusions.

5 Strengths of Overthinkers

Productive thinking and unproductive thinking are subtly different, yet yield significantly different experiences and outcomes.

Is it true that up to half of people have no inner monologue? I investigated | Arwa Mahdawi

Many people experience an inner monologue, but the nature of this phenomenon is complex and varies among individuals.

How to Stop Adding On and Making Things Worse

Humans often complicate challenges instead of resolving them; awareness can simplify thoughts and improve mental well-being.

Meera's perception of her in-laws as the enemy was intense. So was her struggle with her own ugly' emotions | Gill Straker and Jacqui Winship

The pervasive 'us vs them' mentality harms both social cohesion and individual mental health, often leading to significant anxiety and stress.

How to Worry Less

Most worries never come true; research shows 91.4% do not materialize.

Anxiety often involves overestimating the likelihood and severity of feared outcomes.

Worrying can lead people to falsely believe that they can prevent bad events from occurring.

Assassins and Their Fixations

Extreme overvalued beliefs (EOBs) significantly influence the motivations of many assassins, reflecting cultural fanaticism rather than clinical delusions.

5 Strengths of Overthinkers

Productive thinking and unproductive thinking are subtly different, yet yield significantly different experiences and outcomes.

Is it true that up to half of people have no inner monologue? I investigated | Arwa Mahdawi

Many people experience an inner monologue, but the nature of this phenomenon is complex and varies among individuals.

How to Stop Adding On and Making Things Worse

Humans often complicate challenges instead of resolving them; awareness can simplify thoughts and improve mental well-being.

Meera's perception of her in-laws as the enemy was intense. So was her struggle with her own ugly' emotions | Gill Straker and Jacqui Winship

The pervasive 'us vs them' mentality harms both social cohesion and individual mental health, often leading to significant anxiety and stress.

How to Worry Less

Most worries never come true; research shows 91.4% do not materialize.

Anxiety often involves overestimating the likelihood and severity of feared outcomes.

Worrying can lead people to falsely believe that they can prevent bad events from occurring.

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Why Time Slows' When You're in Danger

Perception of time is deeply influenced by situational context and cognitive processes, with 'time expansion experiences' revealing significant variations in how we experience its passage.

Why your sleeping brain replays new rewarding experiences

Emotions during success and failure condition future behaviors, with sleep playing a critical role in memory reinforcement.

How the holidays could be affecting your medical care

Cognitive biases in doctors lead to varying diagnoses, particularly observable during holidays like Halloween.

Awareness of these biases can improve patient care and decision-making processes in medicine.

Don't I Know You From Somewhere?

Eyewitness memories can be unreliable, especially with repeated exposure to a suspect, leading to wrongful convictions.

OPINION: Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that's not always a bad thing

Language shapes perception and emotional processing, influencing how bilingual individuals interact with the world.

The mother tongue evokes stronger emotional memories compared to a second language.

7 hacks to remember names more effectively

Engaging multiple senses and repetition are effective techniques for remembering names during social interactions.

People around world associate rolled R with a jagged line, study finds

The rolled R sound universally evokes an association with jagged lines, challenging the notion of arbitrary sound-meaning relationships.

Deadlines may be vital, but so is procrastination. I'll tell you why soon | Imogen West-Knights

Meeting deadlines is crucial as late submissions are judged more harshly, even if the work is improved during the extra time.

Impossible, you say? Try asking a toddler

Toddlers learn better when they encounter improbable or impossible events, enhancing memory retention and cognitive engagement.

How to find lost objects: 6 techniques that really work

Using a methodical approach increases the chances of finding lost items efficiently.

4 tricks to help boost your motivation. Procrastinators will be energized.

Starting small can help overcome the inertia of big projects and kickstart motivation.

This perplexing optical illusion transforms in the blink of an eye

Optical illusions, like the 3D box illusion, illustrate how perception can shift based on visual cues and brain interpretation.

#information-processing

IQ test from John's Hopkins University challenges YOU to spot the 'T'

Ignoring distractions can enhance visual search performance in complex environments.

Applying the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) - LogRocket Blog

The elaboration likelihood model outlines how motivation affects information processing through central and peripheral routes.

IQ test from John's Hopkins University challenges YOU to spot the 'T'

Ignoring distractions can enhance visual search performance in complex environments.

Applying the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) - LogRocket Blog

The elaboration likelihood model outlines how motivation affects information processing through central and peripheral routes.

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Understanding and applying the Zeigarnik effect - LogRocket Blog

The Zeigarnik effect can significantly enhance efficiency in design by leveraging people's tendency to remember and complete unfinished tasks.

The Picture-Superiority Effect: Harness the Power of Visuals

Visuals like images are remembered better than words, known as the picture-superiority effect.

Understanding and applying the Zeigarnik effect - LogRocket Blog

The Zeigarnik effect can significantly enhance efficiency in design by leveraging people's tendency to remember and complete unfinished tasks.

The Picture-Superiority Effect: Harness the Power of Visuals

Visuals like images are remembered better than words, known as the picture-superiority effect.

Lloyd Kaufman, Who Saw Answers Behind the Moon Illusion,' Dies at 97

Lloyd Kaufman significantly advanced the understanding of the moon illusion, an optical illusion that captivates minds across generations.

How Willing to Be Wrong Makes You More Right

The four modes of thinking are preacher, prosecutor, politician, and scientist; the latter promotes open inquiry and true understanding.

Are people more likely to accurately evaluate misinformation when the political stakes are high? Haha, no

Incentives significantly improve cognitive effort and accuracy in decision-making tasks.

All You Need To Know About Musical Intelligence In Psychology

Musical intelligence encompasses the ability to recognize, understand, and create music, demonstrating a unique form of cognitive processing related to sound.

Why Some People Always Get LostAnd Others Never Do

Navigational abilities vary widely among individuals, from highly accurate to completely random pointing.

Technologies like virtual reality and GPS tracking are revolutionizing navigation research, allowing the study of large groups in complex spaces.

Is Reality Real?: 8 Scientists Explain Whether We Can Ever Know What Objectively Exists

Reality is perceived through our senses, not directly.

Physical objects exist objectively, independent of perception.

Blushing is a gut reaction to your own karaoke, scientists prove

Teenage girls blushed more watching videos of themselves singing in a karaoke session.

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