“All options remain open” – or why would one signal a lack of commitment?
By Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy
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Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump seem now set to meet, as planned, on the 12th of June on the island of Singapore. Many of us have watched with bewilderment the
“All options remain open” – or why would one signal a lack of commitment?
By Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy
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Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump seem now set to meet, as planned, on the 12th of June on the island of Singapore. Many of us have watched with bewilderment the
Why do we flip coins ? Random draws as personal decision-making devices under uncertainty
By Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy
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- For my undergraduate, I was completely undecided between medicine and engineering. I liked both and could not make up my mind.
- How did you decide?
- I
Why do we flip coins ? Random draws as personal decision-making devices under uncertainty
By Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy
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- For my undergraduate, I was completely undecided between medicine and engineering. I liked both and could not make up my mind.
- How did you decide?
- I
Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
Is a lemon fast or slow?
Which one is brighter: the sound of a violin or the sound of a trombone?
Got the answer?
Without any apparent reason, you believe that lemons are fast and violins sound
Why pink? Color matters
Just ask yourself : Which colour do you prefer ? Have you always preferred it, or did your preference change ? Can you tell why you prefer pink to, let's say, yellow ? If you have no answer to these
Mad in America
Relativity of mental illness has enjoyed the favours of philosophers for decades (Michel Foucault, Ian Hacking and, more recently Geoffrey Llyod in his Cognitive Variations). It has lead to the
Some like it hot
Relativity in culinary matters and in taste is a big issue - our tastes (or distastes) for things are indeed shaped by what we are used to eat and see eaten, as well as other factors, genetics being
Why you should rank your friends (but not tell them)
Like me, you must sometimes receive these « rank your friends » messages through your social network. It starts by saying how high you have been ranked in someone’s best friends list, and
Face value
As Dan was noticing last time, the ability to recognize individuals on the basis of faces (and voices) is quite fascinating. The ability to « read » unfamiliar faces is no less interesting, albeit
Fame!
(Editor's note) Why are we interested in famous people? Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that social information served as gossip is inherently interesting for us - information about