David DiSalvo

“dim sum at your”

— David DiSalvo

“words, for our brains, reality equals relevance.”

— David DiSalvo

“but it is very important that you do it.” 27. We are”

— David DiSalvo

“but it is very important that you do it.” 27. We”

— David DiSalvo

“Simon LeVay, “The mind is just the brain doing its job.”

— David DiSalvo

“I never think of the future—it comes soon enough.” —UNKNOWN”

— David DiSalvo

“Since memory is, as we discussed, more fallible”

— David DiSalvo

“meme simply as “that which is imitated.”

— David DiSalvo

“the power of wanting trumps the satisfaction of getting.”

— David DiSalvo

“When we speak of thought, we are speaking of the currency of mind—the very stuff of the brain's relentless activity.”

— David DiSalvo

“suggests that blaming someone in public is the psychological equivalent of coughing swine flu into a crowd.”

— David DiSalvo

“We are instead an exceptionally social species wired for interdependence.”

— David DiSalvo

“They discovered that chimpanzees yawn more after watching familiar chimps yawn than after watching strangers yawn.”

— David DiSalvo

“motivation to perform well and pessimistic expectations are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they seem to get along famously.”

— David DiSalvo

“embodied cognition—the hypothesis that bodily perceptions, like touch, strongly influence how we think.”

— David DiSalvo

“As a social animal, we have a deeply rooted desire to belong to a social group—a preferred tribe, if you will.”

— David DiSalvo

“Newness” has a sort of mystical draw, even though it's incredibly short-lived and rarely meets expectations”

— David DiSalvo

“The second point is that the lives we lead are much more automated than we imagine—or like to concede—and that this is…

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“The second category is long-term memory—the place where everything “remembered” resides. Long-term memory is engaged in the short term (e.g., word memorization)…

— David DiSalvo

“heuristics are simple, efficient rules—either hard-wired in our brains or learned—that kick in especially when we're facing problems with incomplete information.”

— David DiSalvo

“appears that our first instinct is for idleness, but when given an excuse to be busy (even a meaningless one), we're liable…

— David DiSalvo

“Neuroscience research is revealing that the state of not being certain is an extremely uncomfortable place for our brains to live: The…

— David DiSalvo

“The flip side of this reality is that our big brains, advanced as they are, come with an array of complex shortcomings…

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“most views, short-term memory has extremely limited capacity—about seven items at a time. Long-term memory includes anything that is not currently active…

— David DiSalvo

“The results showed that the more times people were exposed to a photo of a completed action, the more often they thought…

— David DiSalvo

“Implicit memory (also called nondeclarative memory) is where socalled muscle memory is found—the motor skills that, once learned, are always available to…

— David DiSalvo

“Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine—an amazingly complex organ that processes…

— David DiSalvo

“to tell a friend that he is acting recklessly—and know we are risking the friendship—or just try to support him through a…

— David DiSalvo

“In one study, participants were primed with high-achievement words (related to winning, excellence, etc.) flashed on a computer screen. Each word appeared…

— David DiSalvo

“Explicit memory (also called declarative memory) principally holds words, numbers, and events. Or, to use the parlance of neurobiology, it is memory…

— David DiSalvo

“Regret as a learning tool happens through something called counterfactual thinking—a dynamic with two razor-sharp edges.5 When we look back on a…

— David DiSalvo

“illusion of control to describe what happens when we place ourselves in the role of agent in a situation that truly lacks…

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“In German, bridge (die brucke) is a feminine noun; in Spanish, bridge (el puente) is a masculine noun. Boroditsky found that when…

— David DiSalvo

“moral forecasting—how effective we are at predicting how morally we will act in a given situation.”

— David DiSalvo

“Memory does not reside in any one place in our brains, but rather is distributed across multiple brain regions.”

— David DiSalvo

“The truth for us all is that when we feel right about a decision or a belief—whether big or small—our brains are…

— David DiSalvo

“it's always on in the background but only takes first chair in our brains when we're not focused on anything in particular.”

— David DiSalvo

“we engage in something called episodic future thinking, which means that we simulate the future by using elements from the past.”

— David DiSalvo

“The more focused we are on the message, the less likely we are to be influenced.”

— David DiSalvo

“it appears that anxietylaced sweat influences riskier behavior than normal sweat.”

— David DiSalvo