“anterior medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices (amPFC, PCC)—while” — David DiSalvo Cortex Copy Share Image
“These studies suggest that we invest the most confidence in a message when it has been repeated three to five times.” — David DiSalvo Confidence Copy Share Image
“it appears that anxietylaced sweat influences riskier behavior than normal sweat.” — David DiSalvo Habits 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
“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
“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
“Whenever we are presented with a commitment that is a long way off, our normal tendency is to downplay the commitment—particularly if… — David DiSalvo Commitment Copy Share Image
“Harvard psychologist Daniel T. Gilbert, we report being less happy when in mental default, even though (according to this study) our minds… — David DiSalvo Education Copy Share Image
“activated when recalling a personal memory—the posterior cingulate gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, and left occipital lobe—are also active when thinking about a future… — David DiSalvo Memory Copy Share Image
“Loneliness, Cacioppo points out, has nothing to do with how many people are physically around us, but has everything to do with… — David DiSalvo Failure Copy Share Image
“Since our brains are adept at finding and drawing conclusions from patterns, it's not surprising that coincidences captivate our attention.” — David DiSalvo 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“your brain is structured to take the path of least resistance, because that's the less threatening way to go—but” — David DiSalvo Path of least resistance Copy Share Image
“normative influence (SNI)—versus individuals who are not as easily influenced by others’ opinions (low SNI).” — David DiSalvo Easily influenced Copy Share Image
“empathize much more with those familiar to us, and this familiarity bias is demonstrated in something as basic as yawning.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“our brains are happy to fill in the blanks with causal relationships that don't really exist.” — David DiSalvo Brains Copy Share Image
“A happy brain is happy to copy, and doing so is largely an automatic, as opposed to voluntary, response.” — David DiSalvo Automatic Copy Share Image
“the fact that mind wandering often includes replaying stressful situations probably has a lot to do with it.” — David DiSalvo Psychology Copy Share Image
“episodic future thinking, which means that we simulate the future by using elements from the past.” — David DiSalvo Episodic Copy Share Image
“once we invest trust in a particular source of knowledge, we're less likely to scrutinize information from that source in the future.” — David DiSalvo Time Copy Share Image
“be empathetic, but we should be careful about being too empathetic too quickly.” — David DiSalvo Careful Copy Share Image
“when you really want something but are prevented from getting it, you want it all the more.” — David DiSalvo Want Copy Share Image
“The study authors believe that when high achievers are primed to achieve excellence, the idea that a task is “fun” undercuts their… — David DiSalvo Achievers Copy Share Image
“Dieters relapse, smokers relapse, anyone with anything approaching a compulsion relapses—usually more than once. This study suggests that part of this repetition… — David DiSalvo Education Copy Share Image
“even a small amount of ambiguity triggers increased activity in the amygdalae—two deep brain structures that play a major role in our… — David DiSalvo Cortex Copy Share Image
“When combined, the challenge to gain future perspective and the desire for immediate rewards sets us up for a range of problems.… — David DiSalvo Discounting Copy Share Image
“neuroscience research—has been providing evidence that “independent thought” is certainly not absolute, and possibly a figment of our egos’ making.” — David DiSalvo Independent thought Copy Share Image
“We as individuals may tend to be more deliberate or more intuitive in our thinking style, but we're all a mix of… — David DiSalvo Intuition Copy Share Image
“Subjects holding the warm beverage had a significantly higher level of perceived closeness to the individual they selected than subjects holding the… — 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
“Preestablished schemata guide our attention to evaluate new information, but they can also guide our attention to selectively ignore information inconsistent with… — David DiSalvo Schemata Copy Share Image
“homeostasis—defined by renowned physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon as “the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain… — David DiSalvo Physiologist Copy Share Image
“After writing about their favorite TV shows, participants verbally expressed fewer feelings of loneliness and exclusion than when describing the filler TV… — David DiSalvo Academic achievement Copy Share Image
“Not by coincidence is the divorce rate for second marriages higher than it is for first marriages; attempting to recapture the anticipation… — David DiSalvo Marriage Copy Share Image
“The first is working memory, or what we usually call “short-term memory”—the category of memory that includes anything we are actively thinking… — David DiSalvo Memory Copy Share Image
“Since the early days of studying propaganda used during World War II, psychology research has demonstrated that the more a message is… — David DiSalvo Psychology Copy Share Image
