“We are instead an exceptionally social species wired for interdependence.” — David DiSalvo Interdependence Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell touches on this point in his book The Conquest of Happiness” — David DiSalvo Books 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 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
“moral forecasting—how effective we are at predicting how morally we will act in a given situation.” — David DiSalvo Morality Copy Share Image
“They discovered that chimpanzees yawn more after watching familiar chimps yawn than after watching strangers yawn.” — David DiSalvo 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
“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
“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
“The anticipation of eating the candy drives up temptation, but the image of already chewing and swallowing M&M's drains the energy out… — David DiSalvo Food 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 Long time Copy Share Image
“The results showed that the more times people were exposed to a photo of a completed action, the more often they thought… — David DiSalvo Photography 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
“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 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
“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
“The best way to think of how our brains frame information is to imagine a picture frame, except unlike a normal frame,… — David DiSalvo Focus Copy Share Image
“Overindulgence of our brain's tendency to wander is, however, a potentially debilitating problem. Psychologists have even coined a phrase to describe it:… — David DiSalvo Obsessive 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
“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
“intentional stance: we refer to objects both animate and inanimate as if they have minds as a shortcut to figuring out what… — David DiSalvo Intentional 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 Schema Copy Share Image
“the adaptive capabilities of our brains—like pattern recognition—did not evolve to make sense of complex commercial environments like those we live in.” — David DiSalvo Adaptive Copy Share Image
“amygdalae filter through the information to determine its threat-level significance and mobilizes a response.” — David DiSalvo Cortex Copy Share Image
“N-Effect: the effect that occurs when the number of total competitors results in diminished motivation for individual competitors.” — David DiSalvo Effect Copy Share Image
“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
“The more focused we are on the message, the less likely we are to be influenced.” — David DiSalvo Focus 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
“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
“the brain's activity—and, indeed, the activity of our nervous system in total—is our mind.” — David DiSalvo Nervous system 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 Waking Hours 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
“those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will.” — David DiSalvo Better Copy Share Image
“Participants who anticipated more rapid feedback scored the highest on the test.” — David DiSalvo Highest Test Copy Share Image
