“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
“It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.” —ERIC HOFFER, THE PASSIONATE STATE… — David DiSalvo Psychology 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
“Children who observe an adult intentionally manipulating an object have a strong tendency to encode all of the adult's actions as meaningful.” — David DiSalvo Children 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“transactive memory—which simply means that over time relationship partners are able to rely on each other to remember things.3 They become a… — David DiSalvo Memory 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 Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell touches on this point in his book The Conquest of Happiness” — David DiSalvo Books Copy Share Image
“humans are born with brains structured to make sense of the world, and that often leads to beliefs that go beyond any… — David DiSalvo Faith 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
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” —H. L. MENCKEN, THE DIVINE AFFLATUS” — David DiSalvo 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 Psychology 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 Copy Share Image
“As the level of ambiguity increases, amygdalae activity continues to increase, and ventral striatum activity continues to decrease.” — David DiSalvo 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 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 Memory Copy Share Image
“Memory does not reside in any one place in our brains, but rather is distributed across multiple brain regions.” — David DiSalvo Memory Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is nothing if not a working model of peer influence in its purest form.” — David DiSalvo Youth Copy Share Image
“N-Effect: the effect that occurs when the number of total competitors results in diminished motivation for individual competitors.” — David DiSalvo Motivation Copy Share Image
“when we get the thing we wanted, the game is over. On top of this, something psychologists call habituation begins to set… — 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
“use of concrete language strongly correlates with a sense of social closeness, whereas abstract language correlates with social distance.” — David DiSalvo Language Copy Share Image
