Posts Tagged ‘emotion’
the candle problem
Dan Pink talked to TED about motivation. He focused on the candle problem, and on modifications of it done by Sam Glucksberg which looked at how reward affected performance. The results: with problems like this, extrinsic reward makes you slower. Pink rightly draws the conclusion: intrinsic motivation is what we need for a lot of [...]
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Tags: attention, brain, candle, economics, emotion, mind, motivation, paradox, Pink, psychology, zemblanity
negativity bias
See Nancy Etcoff on “the surprising science of happiness”. One small thing that exemplify the negativity bias that she talks about is that we can detect sweetness at 1 part per 200. We can detect bitterness at 1 part per 2 million! This could stand for all the ways we are more sensitive to the [...]
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Tags: bias, brain, choice, emotion, Etcoff, happiness, mind, psychology
the decisive moment
I’m just listening to the BBC “Book of the Week”, The Decisive Moment, by Jonah Lehrer. Coincidentally it covers some of the same ground as chapter one of Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis, which I’ve been chewing on the last few days. The BBC page says: The importance of the emotional brain. Since Plato, philosophers [...]
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Tags: brain, emotion, history, Lehrer, mind, neurology, psychology
