“other worker was also blinded, in his case by a well-rehearsed internal script in which he played the hero.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“These studies suggest that we invest the most confidence in a message when it has been repeated three to five times.” — David DiSalvo Confidence Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is nothing if not a working model of peer influence in its purest form.” — David DiSalvo Adolescence Copy Share Image
“schema (singular form of schemata) is like a mental map of concepts that hangs together by association.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“N-Effect: the effect that occurs when the number of total competitors results in diminished motivation for individual competitors.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“amygdalae filter through the information to determine its threat-level significance and mobilizes a response.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“anterior medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices (amPFC, PCC)—while” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Our brains are huge energy consumers (20 percent of our daily caloric intake fuels the brain) but stingy energy users.” — David DiSalvo Energy Copy Share Image
“We have to appreciate that our brains weren't born yesterday. We have mechanisms to warn of threats and guard against instability because… — David DiSalvo Brains Copy Share Image
“Cognitive fluency refers to our brains’ tendency to accept messages that are easy to understand and effortlessly fit into existing schemata (referring… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“the amPFC and PCC were shown to play a large role in self-referential thinking and autobiographical memory (essentially, the “me” part of… — David DiSalvo Memory Copy Share Image
“brains are not static hunks of tissue but flexible and adaptive organs that change throughout our lives. The term used to describe… — David DiSalvo Brain Copy Share Image
“Todd Essig: Brains don't want, any more than lungs sing or knees set long-jump records. Brains are part of what makes people… — David DiSalvo Brains Copy Share Image
“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become… — David DiSalvo Persuasive Copy Share Image
“We as individuals may tend to be more deliberate or more intuitive in our thinking style, but we're all a mix of… — David DiSalvo Intuition Copy Share Image
“neuroscience research—has been providing evidence that “independent thought” is certainly not absolute, and possibly a figment of our egos’ making.” — David DiSalvo Independent thought Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell touches on this point in his book The Conquest of Happiness” — David DiSalvo Books Copy Share Image
“once we invest trust in a particular source of knowledge, we're less likely to scrutinize information from that source in the future.” — David DiSalvo Time Copy Share Image
“episodic future thinking, which means that we simulate the future by using elements from the past.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“the brain shows less activity in the ventral striatum, a part of the brain involved in our response to rewards” — David DiSalvo Dopamine Copy Share Image
“A happy brain is happy to copy, and doing so is largely an automatic, as opposed to voluntary, response.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” —H. L. MENCKEN, THE DIVINE AFFLATUS” — David DiSalvo Problem Copy Share Image
“the fact that mind wandering often includes replaying stressful situations probably has a lot to do with it.” — David DiSalvo Psychology Copy Share Image
“those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Participants who anticipated more rapid feedback scored the highest on the test.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.” —J. R. R. TOLKIEN, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE… — David DiSalvo Fellowship of the ring Copy Share Image
“empathize much more with those familiar to us, and this familiarity bias is demonstrated in something as basic as yawning.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“the brain's activity—and, indeed, the activity of our nervous system in total—is our mind.” — David DiSalvo Brain Copy Share Image
“our brains are happy to fill in the blanks with causal relationships that don't really exist.” — David DiSalvo Brains Copy Share Image
“The latest consensus is that most of us are mentally elsewhere between 30 and 50 percent of our waking hours.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“normative influence (SNI)—versus individuals who are not as easily influenced by others’ opinions (low SNI).” — David DiSalvo Easily influenced Copy Share Image
“your brain is structured to take the path of least resistance, because that's the less threatening way to go—but” — David DiSalvo Path of least resistance Copy Share Image
“As the level of ambiguity increases, amygdalae activity continues to increase, and ventral striatum activity continues to decrease.” — David DiSalvo Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“when you really want something but are prevented from getting it, you want it all the more.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“biological corollary to a meme is, of course, a gene, a unit of heredity transmitted from an organism to its offspring.” — David DiSalvo Biology Copy Share Image
“be empathetic, but we should be careful about being too empathetic too quickly.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“psychologists call embodied cognition—the hypothesis that bodily perceptions, like touch, strongly influence how we think.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Our memories are wrong at least as often as they are right. At best, they are incomplete, though we might swear otherwise.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“intensity bias, which simply means that we are poor forecasters of our emotional reactions.” — David DiSalvo Bias Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to connect experiences, symbols, images, and ideas stems directly from the brain's vital function as an organ evolved to make… — David DiSalvo Brain Copy Share Image
