Quote by David DiSalvo Download Open image ““moral forecasting—how effective we are at predicting how morally we will act in a given situation.”” — David DiSalvo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder.” — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to… — Jasper T. Scott Copy Share Image
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.” — Steven D. Levitt 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 and are… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Participants who anticipated more rapid feedback scored the highest on the test.” — David DiSalvo 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, this one… — David DiSalvo 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 your brain).” — 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
“In German, bridge (die brucke) is a feminine noun; in Spanish, bridge (el puente) is a masculine noun. Boroditsky found that when asked to… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“selective attention,” also called “selectivity bias”—the tendency to orient oneself toward and process information from only one part of our environment to the exclusion… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“great deal of “green” marketing is predicated on the assumption that people will buy a green product to make themselves feel better about moral… — David DiSalvo 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 to act… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become familiar without… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“schema (singular form of schemata) is like a mental map of concepts that hangs together by association.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image