The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association,… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history;… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Spam filters are supposed to block e-mail scams from ever reaching us, but criminals have learned to circumvent them by personalizing their… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The fact that insomnia is associated with depression suggests that sleep might help us deal with emotionally stressful or otherwise disruptive events. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Researchers have always tried to use psychology for predictive ends: Can what we already know about a person tell us how she… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I'm capable of just putting my butt in a chair and spending nine hours a day studying poker. I took it as a full… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
To a child, 'The Little Prince' is the story of a boy who falls from the sky, meets lots of funny people on his… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Fraternities breed leaders. That, at least, is what most any chapter website will tell you, in not so many words - and the message… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Las vegas shouldn't exist. The incongruity hits you from the moment you first glimpse it from the airplane. First mountains, then desert, then neat… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“a failure to use all senses equals a scene not seen to its full potential, attention that has not been allocated properly, and subconscious… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
