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The Paradox of Choice – Why More Is Less is a book written by American psychologist Barry Schwartz and first published in 2004 by Harper Perennial.In the book, Schwartz argues that eliminating consumer choices can greatly reduce anxiety for shoppers.
Advocates for further reducing fertility rates, among them Rodolfo Dirzo and Paul R. Ehrlich, argue that this reduction should primarily affect the "overconsuming wealthy and middle classes," with the ultimate goal being to shrink "the scale of the human enterprise" and reverse the "growthmania" which they say threatens biodiversity and the ...
Similar ideas have been explicated in his 1991 book Consciousness Explained. [73] Dennett argues that the so-called "hard problem" will be solved in the process of solving what Chalmers terms the "easy problems". [16] He compares consciousness to stage magic and its capability to create extraordinary illusions out of ordinary things. [74]
A big telltale sign is that you begin making mistakes — not because you don’t know something but because you’re moving too fast. There are also often physical components to look for.
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman.The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.
It’s such a ridiculously huge number that it doesn’t even seem real. Well, that’s the size of the U.S. national debt, or close to it, and you can rest assured that it’s very real — and ...
Explanations include information-processing rules (i.e., mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. Biases have a variety of forms and appear as cognitive ("cold") bias, such as mental noise, [5] or motivational ("hot") bias, such as when beliefs are distorted by wishful thinking. Both effects ...
The factors that explain life satisfaction roughly map (negatively) to those factors that explain misery. They are first and foremost diagnosed depression/anxiety, which explains twice as much as the next factor, physical health (number of medical conditions), that explains just as much variance in subjective well-being between people, as ...