Ursina Teuscher, PhD
Posted in Achieving Goals, Book Recommendations, Health Decisions, Intuition
Daniel T. Gilbert. Stumbling on Happiness.
This is my pick for the season: an entertaining and well-researched book about our failures to predict what will make us happy or unhappy in the future, and about how these misconceptions affect our decisions.
Ursina Teuscher, PhD
Posted in Health Decisions, Intuition
“You never regret a swim.”
— Swedish Folk Wisdom
Ursina Teuscher, PhD
Posted in Creative Thinking, Intuition
An interesting study that came out this year suggests that when people think in another than their native language, they are judging risks more rationally:
With several experiments, the researchers showed that those thinking in a foreign language did not fall prey to the typical biases and framing effects, and overall made more rational decisions than those thinking in their own native language.
Why is that? It seems counter-intuitive on first sight, but it makes perfect sense, if thinking in a foreign language helps us slows down. The more awkward way of thinking may lead to less automatic processing and help us think more deliberately.
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