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

— David DiSalvo

“Participants who anticipated more rapid feedback scored the highest on the test.”

— David DiSalvo

“The best way to think of how our brains frame information is to imagine a picture frame, except unlike a normal frame, this one…

— David DiSalvo

“the amPFC and PCC were shown to play a large role in self-referential thinking and autobiographical memory (essentially, the “me” part of your brain).”

— David DiSalvo

“those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will.”

— David DiSalvo

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

— David DiSalvo

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

— David DiSalvo

“selective attention,” also called “selectivity bias”—the tendency to orient oneself toward and process information from only one part of our environment to the exclusion…

— David DiSalvo

“great deal of “green” marketing is predicated on the assumption that people will buy a green product to make themselves feel better about moral…

— 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 to act…

— David DiSalvo

“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become familiar without…

— David DiSalvo

“schema (singular form of schemata) is like a mental map of concepts that hangs together by association.”

— David DiSalvo

“Specifically, a web of neurons—dubbed the “default network”—spanning three brain regions (the medial prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate cortex, and the parietal cortex) 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

“Our expectations for what we should be able to recall are hardly in line with what our brains are capable of processing—which, by the…

— David DiSalvo