Buttons that are designed not to work, but that are useful for reassuring us
The expression illusion of control demonstrates the tendency of human beings to believe that they have control.
The expression illusion of control demonstrates the tendency of human beings to believe that they have control.
Temptations are defined as behaviours aimed at satisfying physical needs that may conflict with one’s long term goals.
Being honest is not easy, let’s be honest…. And not always do the examples highlighted in the press help us stand firm on our good intentions.
Third-Person Effect, i.e., the tendency to overestimate the influence of mass communication on others, but not on oneself.
Has it ever happened to you that you were so moved by a performance that you cried, without being able to explain later what you had experienced emotionally?
In a travelling amusement park there is a stall, run by an elderly gentleman, who invites visitors to the park to challenge him in his game, in exchange of a prize.
This riddle, known as the surgeon dilemma, is useful to show how prejudices, stereotypes, convictions and beliefs work. How much and in what way we allow to be influenced by biases and heuristics, or, more commonly, mental traps, as further proof of man’s irrationality.
In the 90’s, a new therapy was introduced in the US, consisting in the daily assumption of various drugs, capable of increasing the survival rate of HIV-positive patients, if followed with at least 95% adherence to therapy.
There are many ways to test our decision-making ability. What I propose is a simple riddle, but one that must be answered instinctively.