“I never think of the future—it comes soon enough.” —UNKNOWN” — David DiSalvo Future Copy Share Image
“When we speak of thought, we are speaking of the currency of mind—the very stuff of the brain's relentless activity.” — David DiSalvo Mind Copy Share Image
“suggests that blaming someone in public is the psychological equivalent of coughing swine flu into a crowd.” — David DiSalvo Blaming Copy Share Image
“We are instead an exceptionally social species wired for interdependence.” — David DiSalvo Interdependence Copy Share Image
“embodied cognition—the hypothesis that bodily perceptions, like touch, strongly influence how we think.” — David DiSalvo Embodied Copy Share Image
“As a social animal, we have a deeply rooted desire to belong to a social group—a preferred tribe, if you will.” — David DiSalvo Desire Copy Share Image
“Newness” has a sort of mystical draw, even though it's incredibly short-lived and rarely meets expectations” — David DiSalvo Mystical Copy Share Image
“motivation to perform well and pessimistic expectations are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they seem to get along famously.” — David DiSalvo Motivation Copy Share Image
“They discovered that chimpanzees yawn more after watching familiar chimps yawn than after watching strangers yawn.” — David DiSalvo Chimpanzees Copy Share Image
“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 Childhood memories Copy Share Image
“The second point is that the lives we lead are much more automated than we imagine—or like to concede—and that this is… — David DiSalvo Good thing Copy Share Image
“Neuroscience research is revealing that the state of not being certain is an extremely uncomfortable place for our brains to live: The… — David DiSalvo Doubt Copy Share Image
“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 Facing problems Copy Share Image
“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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“The flip side of this reality is that our big brains, advanced as they are, come with an array of complex shortcomings… — David DiSalvo Shortcomings Copy Share Image
“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 Memory 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 Cognitive Copy Share Image
“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 Memory Copy Share Image
“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 Brain Copy Share Image
“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 Friend Copy Share Image
“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 Computers Copy Share Image
“Explicit memory (also called declarative memory) principally holds words, numbers, and events. Or, to use the parlance of neurobiology, it is memory… — David DiSalvo Memory Copy Share Image
“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 Decision making Copy Share Image
“illusion of control to describe what happens when we place ourselves in the role of agent in a situation that truly lacks… — David DiSalvo Illusion Copy Share Image
“In German, bridge (die brucke) is a feminine noun; in Spanish, bridge (el puente) is a masculine noun. Boroditsky found that when… — David DiSalvo Bridge Copy Share Image
“Memory does not reside in any one place in our brains, but rather is distributed across multiple brain regions.” — David DiSalvo Brain Copy Share Image
“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 Decision making Copy Share Image
“moral forecasting—how effective we are at predicting how morally we will act in a given situation.” — David DiSalvo Morality Copy Share Image
“The more focused we are on the message, the less likely we are to be influenced.” — David DiSalvo Focus Copy Share Image
“it appears that anxietylaced sweat influences riskier behavior than normal sweat.” — David DiSalvo Anxiety Copy Share Image
“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 Distraction Copy Share Image
“we engage in something called episodic future thinking, which means that we simulate the future by using elements from the past.” — David DiSalvo Future thinking Copy Share Image
