The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. — Daniel Kahneman Although it may seem minimal, tiny variations in the way you’re asked a question can have a surprising impact on your thoughts and behavior. And I do mean surprising… Let’s start with a basic example. Imagine you’re…
Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them do so. – Bryan Eisenberg When talking to a fellow graduate student recently, I asked her if she was at all interested in becoming a marketing professor after graduate school. Her response: “I don’t think I’m ready to sell…
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. — George Sand Aw, love. What an amazing, terrible, beautiful, and most despicable thing love is. Since this blog’s inception, I have written on this all-consuming emotion here, here, here, here, here, and here. So, with spring back—it’s pink and cherry blossoms spreading allergies…
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. — Pablo Picasso How often do you wash your hands compared to others? A survey ran in 2009 found that approximately 50% of people wash their hands more than 10 times a day. Broken down by gender: about 62% of women…
I am very excited to share a guest author’s post today! Especially because the article is on one of psychology’s most important endeavors: understanding what brings us happiness so we can better attain it. Enjoy! * * * * * Reiterating Everyday Psychophilosophy’s musings on the definition of happiness, it is…
Believe those who are seeking truth. — [shared quotation] For the first time in over 100 years, measles, mumps, and other dangerous, communicable diseases are on the rise in the United States (World Health Organization, 2017). And social scientists point to the anti-vaccination movement as a primary cause. For example, the measles (a highly contagious…