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Stuff => Thoughts and Ideas => Topic started by: galumay on March 09, 2018, 09:22:55 PM

Title: Psychology
Post by: galumay on March 09, 2018, 09:22:55 PM
A great talk by Daniel Kahneman,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjVQJdIrDJ0
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: galumay on April 16, 2018, 07:56:53 AM
Worth reflecting on, thanks to Morgan Housel,

The power of stories:

Titanic was the fourth-worst non-war maritime disaster of the 20th century.

Good chance you've never heard of the other three, one of which killed almost three times as many people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters_in_the_20th_century

A common thread with risk: Things that make good stories are paid attention to even when other things that are objectively worse are ignored.

Plane crashes over car crashes, murders over heart attacks, volatility over fees.

https://twitter.com/morganhousel/status/985643775593799680


Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: galumay on October 28, 2018, 03:33:09 PM
And a problem here is this thing behavioral psychologists call self-attribution bias. It describes how when good things hap- pen to people they think it’s because of something they did, but when bad things happen to them they think it’s because of something someone else did.