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Found 16 comments on You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself:

u/Alict · 13 pointsr/LateStageCapitalism

The basic idea here is actually more true than you think. In a psychological sense, communism doesn't fall apart because humans are innately greedy -- it's because humans have a strong sense of fairness and strongly resent cheaters.

In games meant to simulate a sharing economy, everyone is perfectly happy splitting winnings evenly until they notice someone else cheat. All it takes is a single person taking more than they put in to set off a chain reaction of cheating where people are suddenly angry and indignant at only getting their fair share because other people are getting more.

While this is obviously a simplified situation, what it implies is that while humans are for the most part innately generous, the impulse to make sure others get their fair share is weaker than the one to make sure our own share is fair... which makes perfect sense, evolutionary.

What this means for governments is complex, but it's basically why the human race as it stands now probably would never be able to function under a true communistic state -- all it takes is one weak link to destroy the whole thing. A basal income where you could then earn on top of it would be more likely to succeed.

source -- not on their website, unfortunately, the article is only in print. This is a super-interesting article about a modified version of the game and the difference between how American and Japanese subjects played -- basically, Japanese players start more spiteful but ultimately collaborate better, while Americans start okay and are more likely to go off the rails later.

u/blobkat · 7 pointsr/LucidDreaming

I also recently read it in the book "you are not so smart" by David McRaney. Very, very enjoyable read.

Amazon link: (no referral link, don't worry): http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-So-Smart/dp/1592406599

Apparently the human tendency to create memories out of thin air is huge. Therefore, suppressed memories often are more the result of guidance by the psychologist, counsellor,... than they are based on the truth.

u/motdidr · 4 pointsr/AskReddit

I already made a post but I also have to recommend: You Are Not So Smart : http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-So-Smart/dp/1592406599

He has a website too (youarenotsosmart.com), but as far as "changing the way you see the world", well, this will definitely change your understanding of how your mind actually works, definitely changing the way you see EVERYTHING. Fascinating, fun read with LOTS of examples of studies and very wide range of topics. Lots of fun.

u/ave_satana · 4 pointsr/occult

I think that you should inform them that paranormal phenomena are just not as common as they presume and to exhaust all possibility before concluding that it is quite simply paranormal phenomenon. That includes questioning one's own sanity.

As for banishing:

  • Laughter
  • Bathing, with intent

    The above suggested already by my fellow /r/occult ists

  • Meditating and imagining the self and room filling with supernal light
  • Tracing the area of the room(s) with lit incense of any type
  • Drawing an X over every external door and window
  • The LBRP, its derivatives and especially invented rituals by the practitioner

    If I think of more, I'll add them.

  • Procuring "holy water" and flicking it throughout the home
  • Completing X amount of prayers to any Deity

    How many prayers do you have to complete? Well, the square root of your income. Round up. That is, your gross income before deductions and exemptions and including bonuses and stock options. You can cheat on your taxes, but I warn you not to cheat God and the like. I tried it when I was younger, bad move, wild times and nothing but regrets. Anyways, donations made in good faith (not to politicians) are deductible, and strangely Dogecoin is exempt unless outright stolen. I don't make the rules. Blah blah blah stuff about Mammon blah blah passing through the eye of a needle yada yada.

  • Psychic pimp-slapping the so-called spirit
  • Make it worse and sell the script to Hollywood?
  • Study You Are Not So Smart and consider if perhaps the supernatural world-view isn't for you
  • Buy a candle from a nearby witchcraft store and leave a generous tip. Then of course use the candle wherever the concern is.
u/Sejhal · 3 pointsr/runescape

They're probably not so much quiet as much as you two have no mutual interests to talk about beyond whatever small and random event that inspired you to add them in the first place.

I can say with confidence my friend's list was composed largely with people who I found, during the brief encounter, very pleasant to converse with, be it at a fishing spot or camping a slayer monster.

However, usually the effects those random circumstances that bring about your initial affinity for the other party are typically very short lived and you realize you don't actually have much of a real connection with them. So you end up not talking to or deleting them very soon thereafter.

It happens all the time.

I now personally have 12 friends on my friends list, one who is a jmod I have on there for novelty because I saw them myself in-game and talked with and another is a random person I remember giving me full bronze, which I thought was the absolute most ballingest shit when I first started, so I would leave him and his e-gf alone. The other 10 people I talk to very regularly, about very diverse topics, from RS balance to politics to preferences of gum.

Have a look at this book to get an idea of why you may have so many people you don't actually talk with.

u/Palmsiepoo · 3 pointsr/AskSocialScience

I think you're going to have to find a balance between accuracy and ease. most academic books are dense because 50 years of theoretical work went into understanding a very minute phenomenon. For example, there are books (Locke & Latham, 1990) written on just goal setting and how important it is to set a difficult goal. On the other hand, you have books written by folks like Malcolm Gladwell, while easy to read, are often incorrect because they omit many important nuances in academic literature.

Your best bet is to find books written by academics but made for laymen, two I recommend are:

You are not so smart

Thinking fast and slow

u/Seicair · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

I highly recommend You Are Not So Smart. Excellent book about how your brain works and how it's constantly trying to trick you. Everyone should read it.

u/_sebu_ · 2 pointsr/StreetEpistemology

I think what you're saying makes sense, but what you're trying to do doesn't. You seem to be approaching atheism/skepticism kind of like a religion, in saying that you're new, want to become an atheist and want to work towards mastery etc. This makes total sense if you've just come out of a religion, of course. I would've thought the same thing. But in fact it's more of a de-programming than a re-programming. I think what you mean is that you've decided to de-program yourself of certain ways of thinking.

If there's anything useful that could be mastered in this sphere, one thing would be developing a knowledge of the cognitive traps that people can fall into so you can avoid them (not just with religion, but any irrational glitch the brain tends to come up with). You may enjoy:

u/-Pelvis- · 2 pointsr/RedditDayOf
I love Adam Ruins Everything.

I'd really like to see the actual study where they pulled the "wine pranks", so, let's go on an adventure!

I found the article they referenced in the video.

Which, in turn, cites this book as a reference, which I then "sailed the high seas and plundered".

Here is the chapter, copied and pasted from the book.

I read that, found that it was an experiment conducted by Frédéric Brochet at the Univerité de Bordeaux, and then searched for "frederic brochet bordeaux study wine", which gave me this article, which in turn had a link to a pdf of the actual study.

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TL;DR: here is the link to the pdf of the "wine prank" study.
u/instanteggrolls · 1 pointr/AskReddit

You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney.

Very interesting stuff.

u/Cohomotopian · 1 pointr/seduction

Yeah, that's the one I was looking for. My bad, sorry. I recommend this book and blog because this stuff is really interesting.

u/saucesomesauce · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Ah yes... I've found just the book for you :)

http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-So-Smart/dp/1592406599

one of my all time favs, and an important read for humanity.

u/dumnezero · 1 pointr/atheism

I recommend this book as a fun/horror read (depending in your personal critical thinking ability): you are not so smart

Plenty of sample chapters on the site: http://youarenotsosmart.com/

u/GasStationCoffee · 1 pointr/Fitness

If you think your actions are 100% personal choice, you might want to research that a bit.

http://smile.amazon.com/dp/1592406599/ref=cm_sw_su_dp?sa-no-redirect=1