Articles (page 46)
- Why You Finish the Series You Stopped Enjoying
The sunk cost effect is real, it is smaller than its reputation, and nobody has ever measured the version of it you are living on a Sunday evening
- Why You Are Hungry an Hour After a Big Lunch
Two amnesic patients ate lunch three times in an hour, which is the clearest evidence anybody has that short-term hunger is a forecast rather than a reading
- Somebody Notices When You Are Missing
Twenty years of the same men on the same pitch every Wednesday night, and the biggest comparison anybody has run says the group adds nothing. Which leaves the part of a team that nobody has got…
- What Forty-One Participants Buys
Social priming's best defence is that the instrument was too blunt for the claim. Fifteen years on, nobody has built a sharper one
- Both Sides of the Screen-Time Argument
Our position is in the first paragraph. What follows is the evidence for it, both writers on their own terms, and the objection we cannot answer
- The Candle Never Changes
Why the room decides what counts as art
- 2,500 Years, One Good Study
Buddhism locates suffering in craving, not in thinking. A laboratory in Michigan may have found that craving does not have to hurt
- Cliques Are a Stress Response
Why groups close ranks when the environment gets hard, and why the exclusion is the mechanism rather than the malfunction
- Prime Time Never Died, It Started Charging Admission
The free version of mass simultaneous attention declined. The mechanism was made scarce on purpose and sold back