“moral forecasting—how effective we are at predicting how morally we will act in a given situation.” — David DiSalvo Morality 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
“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
“They discovered that chimpanzees yawn more after watching familiar chimps yawn than after watching strangers yawn.” — David DiSalvo Chimpanzees 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
“Newness” has a sort of mystical draw, even though it's incredibly short-lived and rarely meets expectations” — David DiSalvo Mystical 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
“embodied cognition—the hypothesis that bodily perceptions, like touch, strongly influence how we think.” — David DiSalvo 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“when you really want something but are prevented from getting it, you want it all the more.” — David DiSalvo 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
“As the level of ambiguity increases, amygdalae activity continues to increase, and ventral striatum activity continues to decrease.” — David DiSalvo Ambiguity 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 Copy Share Image
“intensity bias, which simply means that we are poor forecasters of our emotional reactions.” — David DiSalvo Bias Copy Share Image
“be empathetic, but we should be careful about being too empathetic too quickly.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“psychologists call embodied cognition—the hypothesis that bodily perceptions, like touch, strongly influence how we think.” — David DiSalvo 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
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” —H. L. MENCKEN, THE DIVINE AFFLATUS” — David DiSalvo Problem Copy Share Image
“A happy brain is happy to copy, and doing so is largely an automatic, as opposed to voluntary, response.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Participants who anticipated more rapid feedback scored the highest on the test.” — David DiSalvo 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 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
“episodic future thinking, which means that we simulate the future by using elements from the past.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell touches on this point in his book The Conquest of Happiness” — David DiSalvo Books Copy Share Image
“the brain shows less activity in the ventral striatum, a part of the brain involved in our response to rewards” — David DiSalvo Dopamine 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 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
“the brain's activity—and, indeed, the activity of our nervous system in total—is our mind.” — David DiSalvo Brain 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
“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
“intentional stance: we refer to objects both animate and inanimate as if they have minds as a shortcut to figuring out what… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
