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9 Best Articles in 2021
Gabriel Weinberg
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly UsefulGabriel Weinberg
From 2016 · Update: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking. Get notified about book updates here (currently…
wisdom
mental models
ux
Visual Capitalist
50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern WorldVisual Capitalist
~17 min read · 2020-02-01 · Our rapidly evolving world forces us to adopt distinct patterns of behavior, and in the process, paves the way for new cognitive biases to emerge.
psychology
decision making
behavioral economics
insidemymind.me
Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue And It Has Ruined My Day.insidemymind.me
3 min read · 2020-02-07 · My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their…
mind
brain
self
The Atlantic
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2017 · More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
smartphones
technology
tech
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Mediummedium.com
~16 min read · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite.
technology
digital life
startups
The New Yorker
Why Facts Don’t Change Our MindsThe New Yorker
~12 min read · From 2017 · New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
behavioral economics
psychology
reasoning
BBC News (World)
Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not timeBBC News (World)
5 min read · 2020-01-23 · Address the real reasons you procrastinate and you’re more likely to start achieving your goals.
psychology
productivity
procrastination
Mashable
How to stop caring what people think about youMashable
8 min read · 2020-02-26 · It's not simple. But it's part of being human.
psychology
relationships
mental health
Takeaways
Approval-seeking is usually a childhood-created coping strategy. Did you feel a need to get love from your parents and create ways to gain their approval? Did you struggle to make friends at school, and subsequently develop a fear of being rejected?" she said. "By identifying where the approval-seeking started, you can identify the types of situations that trigger your need for approval in your current life."
"We are wired towards inclusion."
Farnam Street
An Introduction to Mental ModelsFarnam Street
20+ min read · From 2015 · Discover how the smartest people in the world use a latticework of mental models to make better decisions, avoid problems, and achieve better results.
mental models
learning
psychology
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The Pandemic Messed With Your Sleep. Here’s How to Feel Rested Again.
The New York Times
Positive Psychology Goes to War
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Psychological effects of the pandemic may be felt in young people for a long time to come
The Hill
Feeling overwhelmed about life picking up again? Try implementing ‘microsteps’
Fast Company
How Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Impact Adult Anger
Psychology Today
How to think clearly
Aeon+Psyche
Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2021
Behavioral Scientist
The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion
Farnam Street
Framing effect: how the way information is framed impacts our decisions
Ness Labs
More Kids Struggle With Mental Health Challenges Because Of The Pandemic
NPR
Daniel Kahneman on ‘noise’ – the flaw in human judgement harder to detect than cognitive bias
The Conversation
Some Pandemic Health Habits Deserve to Stay
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Farnam Street
The Pygmalion Effect: Proving Them RightFarnam Street
5 min read · May 10th · The Pygmalion Effect is a powerful secret weapon. Without even realizing it, we can nudge others towards success. In this article, discover how expectations can influence performance for better or…
psychology
productivity
Takeaways
The Pygmalion effect suggests our reality is negotiable and can be manipulated by others—on purpose or by accident. What we achieve, how we think, how we act, and how we perceive our capabilities can be influenced by the expectations of those around us.
If you expect a dazzling feat, you might just get one.
Aeon+Psyche
How to think clearlyAeon+Psyche
~13 min read · Jun 9th · By learning to question and clarify your thoughts, you’ll improve your self-knowledge and become a better communicator
better living
psychology
thinking
Takeaways
So far as possible, you should try to extract the maximum truthful and reasonable content from what others say, especially if they disagree with you
Unless you seek out contexts, routines and environments that support your best self, you’ll struggle to be that self at any but the very best of times.
Ness Labs
Framing effect: how the way information is framed impacts our decisionsNess Labs
4 min read · Jun 3rd · The framing effect is considered one of the largest biases in decision making. Many of our decisions are impacted by this cognitive bias.
brain
career
psychology
Takeaways
the framing effect: a cognitive bias where people decide on options based on whether they are presented in a positive or negative way.
Do you prefer your yoghurt with 10% fat or 90% fat-free?
Nautilus Magazine
Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You ThinkNautilus Magazine
~14 min read · May 28th · I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.” From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged…
media
psychology
Takeaways
philosopher of science, Bennett Holman
So the problem here is that matters of fact shouldn’t be settled by public vote.
BBC Future
How unconscious forces control our actionsBBC Future
8 min read · May 31st · Subliminal messaging and nudge psychology lead us to believe that we can be influenced without us realising, but just how powerful is our unconscious mind?
brain
psychology
Takeaways
In other words, unconscious mechanisms, through the preparation of neural activity, set us up for any action we decide to take. But this all happens before we consciously experience intending to do something. Our unconscious appears to rule all actions we ever take.
To help improve the way we make decisions, Thaler and Sunstein contend, we need to redirect unconsciously biased processes towards the better decision. The way to do this is through gently nudging people so that they can automatically detect which option is the better one to take. For example, you could make sweets less easily accessible in a supermarket than fruit. This research has been adopted globally by many public and private institutions.
Brain Pickings
The Secret of Happiness: Bronson Alcott on Gardening and GeniusBrain Pickings
3 min read · May 20th · “Every plant one tends he falls in love with… Only persons of perennial genius attract or recreate as the plants, and of books we may say the same, as of the magic of solitude.”
better living
psychology
Takeaways
“I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy,” Louisa May Alcott wrote in her diary just after she turned eleven, a quarter century before Little Women bloomed from that uncommon mind — a mind whose pleasures and powers were nurtured by the profound love of nature her father wove into the philosophical and scientific education he gave his four daughters.
BBC Future
How your name affects your personalityBBC Future
7 min read · May 26th · Your name is often the first piece of information strangers learn about you and it can have a surprising impact on how others perceive you.
psychology
Brain Pickings
I Measure Every Grief I Meet: Emily Dickinson on Love and LossBrain Pickings
4 min read · May 29th · “‘Tis good — the looking back on Grief.”
psychology
brain
Takeaways
Grief is the shadow love casts in the light of loss.
So much of who we are — who we discover ourselves to be — takes shape in that umbral space as we fumble for some edge to hold onto, some point of light to orient by.
Harvard Business Review
5 Behavioral Biases That Trip Up Remote ManagersHarvard Business Review
6 min read · Jun 1st · And how to counteract them.
leadership
psychology
Takeaways
Managers should take behavioral science into account to ensure the most effective team management in situations of increased uncertainty.
UnHerd
You’re more biased than you thinkUnHerd
7 min read · May 27th · Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for studying errors — and still makes them
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