Gutman points out that smiling is ingrained in our biology and persons who smile frequently typically have better, longer lives. Go figure.
Category: Viewing
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Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions
Gilbert satirically presents a common decision fallacy: an inability to bypass context to pay attention to facts. -
Timothy Garton Ash: Facts are Subversive
Ash talks about the deep complexities of doing fact finding and ‘proper’ research.
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Paul Bloom: Why Do We Like What We Like?
Bloom said it well: “When you come to understand something, when you make sense of it and when you get pleasure from it, you’re responding not merely to what you’re looking at, not merely the physical features of the thing but to your beliefs about it: where you think it came from, who touched it, how it was made, what its deeper essence is.” -
Robert Trivers: Why Do We Deceive Ourselves?
An interesting delve into many of the ways and reasons that we deceive ourselves including the facts that deception starts in utero, the smarter the child the more often they lie and