Our Personalities: Crashing Others’ Expectations
Posted on01 Oct 2012
TagsA Few Good Men, computers, Daniel Wegner, euphemisms, Harvard University, humans, illusion, Kurt Gray, objectivity, organizational culture, Personality, rationale, reality, robots, technology, The Economist, truth, University of North Carolina
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As computers and robots are able to perform more of the mental and physical tasks of humans, we are finding they can... Read More
Euphemisms: Preferring Illusions to Reality
Posted on02 Feb 2012
Tags1984, A Few Good Men, cognitive dissonance, compensation, connotations, definitions, euphemisms, food, George Orwell, glass, illusion, Jack Nicholson, labels, Making Murder Respectable, phraseology, reality, sensitivity, The Economist, Tom Cruise, vanilla words, word choice, words
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Words have power, not only in their definitions but also, more importantly, in their connotations. The article, “Making Murder Respectable,” from the... Read More
The Irrationality of Procrastination
Posted on14 Oct 2010
Tagsaction, Chrisoula Andreou, decisions, emotions, intuition, irrational, logic, Mark D. White, objective, Personality, Piers Steel, procrastination, rationale, reality, scientific, The New Yorker, The Thief of Time, University of Calgary
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I came across a book review in the October 11, 2010 issue of The New Yorker about The Thief of Time, edited... Read More
An Intuitive Understanding Of Weaknesses in the Scientific Method
Posted on07 Jun 2010
Tagsbelief, business, emotions, experiment, guarantees, innovation, laboratory, leadership, morale, problem solving, process, product, prove, reality, relationships, scientific
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Weaknesses in the scientific method cause its usefulness to fall far short of people’s belief in it. In other words, hype exceeds... Read More
