Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Thanks, Grandpa!
If you are like every person that has ever considered the questions of psychology, you have thought about where your specific traits come from. The standard answer is: genetics does its part and the environment takes over. But there is strong evidence to show that both elements play a role just not in the relatively simplistic form that we have grown to believe.
What if you inherited a trait from your great-great-grandmother but is was not simply a trait but a mutation that arose due to a rotten childhood or a significant trauma, generations before you were even conceived. This is now thought to be the case with many aspects of who we are.
DNA never forgets.
Article from Discover Magazine
Monday, November 26, 2018
Brain Hacks
![Image result for smartphone addiction](https://www.theneweconomy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Apple_shareholder_letter.jpg)
Find out how your brain responds to smartphone use and creates an addiction that is making big profits for those in the know.
How your phone manipulates you (video)
Smartphone Addiction (article)
Audio and articles about your addiction to tech
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Heuristics and decision making
How do you make decisions? There is likely not much rational logic involved, although you may think there is. We make countless decisions every day of our lives but how we make them is rarely understood by the person who is actually making them.
Heuristics are at the heart of our daily lives. Understand this and you'll never look at another simple decision the same way again.
Heuristics intro video
Over view of heuristics (article)
Types of Heuristics and examples
The Halo Effect ...and business
What is Beautiful is Good
Thinking Fast and Slow - Kahneman audiobook
(with chapter ideas listed below)
Heuristics are at the heart of our daily lives. Understand this and you'll never look at another simple decision the same way again.
![Image result for decision making](https://cdn.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/styles/article-inline-half/public/field_blog_entry_images/%20rnl_Decision_MaketheRighDecision%20-%20Edited_0.jpg?itok=f-zKCrxP)
Over view of heuristics (article)
Types of Heuristics and examples
The Halo Effect ...and business
What is Beautiful is Good
Thinking Fast and Slow - Kahneman audiobook
(with chapter ideas listed below)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtjtSoNxKbS-lXaYrviu9xlNZxR20mCm_zC1aEJoUEORjOnc5uZG7vh9ORTWWnzLMeews84O1iV9PxCyGAJNuEnotr8UBcu8Jo1mZcfRk1qfHY0eKmqavEM_AQIRm09KKP-djKIfZ9uA/s640/ThinkingFastSlow_00_Table+of+Contents.jpg)
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