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Consistency is what a routine produces, and the best evidence on who stops going is thinner than the numbers make it look

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

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

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…

Social priming's best defence is that the instrument was too blunt for the claim. Fifteen years on, nobody has built a sharper one

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

Why the room decides what counts as art

Buddhism locates suffering in craving, not in thinking. A laboratory in Michigan may have found that craving does not have to hurt

Why groups close ranks when the environment gets hard, and why the exclusion is the mechanism rather than the malfunction