We want to finish a unit of anything we are consuming - we don't want to stop in the middle.
Published on Jul 10, 2024
The ability to believe that others have an unobservable mental state. This is critical for social interactions, communication, empathy, morality, self-consciousness. We understand other people by ascribing mental states to them (that is, surmising what is happening in their mind).
Published on Jul 10, 2024
This is a learning method that improves recall and typically done with flashcards. This is based on the idea of a 'forgetting curve' - the rate at which we forget new information over time. If we are exposed to the information again at the main points of the forgetting curve, we will not forget it.
Published on Jul 10, 2024
Social identity is the part of a person's self-concept that is made from their membership in a social group.
Published on Jul 10, 2024
All people have some bad movements. Social media outrage is generally driven by a collective memory of just those bad movements.
Published on Jul 10, 2024
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
Published on Jul 10, 2024
Religious thinking is embedded in our cognitive process - its a mode of knowing.
Published on Jul 10, 2024
This is a phenomena in statistics. If one sample collected is at an extreme, the next sample will generally be moderate.
Published on Jul 10, 2024
We tend to believe that large events have large causes. This might be true in many instances, but not always.
Published on Jul 10, 2024