when we hear a statement enough, we'll start to believe it
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5 Mind Blowing Ways Your Memory Plays Tricks On You | Cracked.com - 10 views
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the brain confuses an imagined event with an actual memory.
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"Illusion of Truth" effect.
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"If other members of the tribe who I feel close to believe this, there must be something to it."
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Most of you will still think of this as something other people do, and that you of course are the unbiased observer who can clearly see their stupidity
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seen video clips of Mr. Obama drinking alcohol, eating pork, getting sworn in on a Christian Bible and sitting in a Christian church
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This is how people continue to believe admitted hoaxes after they have been proven to be fake.
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Humor a boost to memory, study shows - Valparaiso University - 1 views
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Do you remember the commercial about cowboys trying to herd cats that aired during the Super Bowl?
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Dr. Carlson says that after controlling for photographic image, keyword, order of presentation, length of phrases and the mental incongruity created by the inspirational and humorous phrases, subjects’ ratings of humor explained an additional 50 percent of the variance in recall performance. That indicates the perception of humor can impact what we remember even after all of these other variables are controlled. “That’s a very large effect to observe, as a 25 percent variance generally is considered a large effect,” Dr. Carlson said.
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That advertisement can still be recalled clearly by many people even though it aired all the way back in 2000,
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In order for humor to be beneficial to advertisers, Dr. Carlson says the humor used in an ad must be closely linked to the advertised product, such as GEICO’s gecko commercials.
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“Understanding memory is essential because who are we without our memories?” said Dr. Carlson, who plans to pursue his research into humor and memory further by investigating whether emotion is connected to humor and memory.
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“In the real world there are other factors affecting memory that can’t be controlled,” he said. “Ads that are too funny are often remembered more for being funny than for promoting a particular product.”
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Deepak Chopra: Video Games Can Promote Higher Consciousness, Accelerate Brain Developme... - 1 views
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In fact, Chopra hopes to eventually prove this with Leela, and he plans to show his neurological cohorts once the game is complete.
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My hope is to be able to do a functional resonance scan on somebody’s brain and show in six months how this brain is way more evolved than when it first started playing the game. So that’s one end of the spectrum.”
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Moonwalking with Einstein: How to Hack Your Memory | Brain Pickings - 1 views
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that there’s far more potential in our minds than we often give them credit for
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niquely human
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Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it’s such a goofy image.
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much bigger: that it’s possible, with training and hard work, to teach oneself to do something that might seem really difficult.”
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Those questions are precisely what science writer Joshua Foer sought to unravel when he set out to cover and compete in the U.S. Memory Championship
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15 Big Ways The Internet Is Changing Our Brain » Online College Search - Your... - 6 views
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In a study by Science Magazine, students were asked to type in pieces of trivia, and depending on their group were told that their information would either be erased or saved. The group that was told their data would be saved were less likely to remember.
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Are we smarter because of technology, or in spite of it? No one's answered that question yet, but it's interesting to think about
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The wife of a heavy technology user notes that her husband is "crotchety until he gets his fix." After spending time online, your brain wants to get back on for more, making it difficult to concentrate on other tasks and "unplug."
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We don't have to remember phone numbers or addresses anymore. Instead, we can just hop on our email or Google to look it up.
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Professor Betsy Sparrow reports, "We remember less through knowing information itself than by knowing where the information can be found."
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Like so many others, he finds that "deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
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"Five hours on the Internet and the naive subjects had already rewired their brains," noted Small, suggesting that over time, Internet use changes neural pathways.
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overlook older, valuable information, instead choosing to seek out new information
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Even after you log off (if you ever do), your brain remains rewired
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Sum of the Parts? How Our Brains See Men as People and Women as Body Parts | Neuroscien... - 5 views
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When casting our eyes upon an object, our brains
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In fact, it takes two separate mental functions to see the mosaic from both perspectives.
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When presented with images of men, perceivers tended to rely more on “global” cognitive processing, the mental method in which a person is perceived as a whole. Meanwhile, images of women were more often the subject of “local” cognitive processing, or the objectifying perception of something as an assemblage of its various parts.
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This could be one of the reasons of the idea of male dominance in society
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If women are assessed as an assemblage of various parts, does that mean that they are viewed as nonuniform or more lenient, thus making it more plausible that men are dominant. Or should it be viewed as because they are able to be disassembled show the ability to be more open minded, thus being better leaders
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Women were perceived in the same ways that objects are viewed.
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Men might be doing it because they’re interested in potential mates, while women may do it as more of a comparison with themselves
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Our findings suggest people fundamentally process women and men differently, but we are also showing that a very simple manipulation counteracts this effect, and perceivers can be prompted to see women globally, just as they do men,
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“The subjects in the study’s images were everyday, ordinary men and women … the fact that people are looking at ordinary men and women and remembering women’s body parts better than their entire bodies was very interesting.”
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Women’s sexual body parts were more easily recognized when presented in isolation than when they were presented in the context of their entire bodies. But men’s sexual body parts were recognized better when presented in the context of their entire bodies than they were in isolation.
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Your Emotions Are What You Eat: How Your Diet Can Reduce Anxiety | Age of Engagement | ... - 0 views
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"Emotions are biochemical storms
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UCLA Gedgaudas spoke about "the myth of the 'mind-body connection' and how diet can powerfully impact mental health and cognitive performance"
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"The healthier your biochemistry, of course, the better the emotional and also the cognitive forecast."
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Why do we choose to focus on one thing over another? Some of it is habitual patterns but a lot of it has to do with this lens. So this is a critical piece that gets overlooked,
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“Stress is not wh
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"Both the body and the brain need a certain amount of raw materials to function. Without these raw materials no amount of therapy of any kind is ever going to have optimal or lasting results."
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by 2020, depression – what she describes as "a state of chronic efforting" – will be the second-leading disability behind heart disease.
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Gedgaudas, a certified nutritional therapist
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nutritionist-author Nora Gedgaudas
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With the standard American diet (SAD), the raw materials are lacking – and the results may be visible