Thinking, Fast and Slow*Major New York Times Bestseller |
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... surprising sound. • Maintain a faster walking speed than is natural for you. • Monitor the appropriateness of your behavior in a social situation. • Count the occurrences of the letter • a in a page of text. Tell someone your phone ...
... surprising. Indeed, the viewers who fail to see the gorilla are initially sure that it was not there— they cannot ... surprising stimulus to be detected. Surprise then activates and orients your attention: you will stare, and you ...
... surprising result from a survey with the information that the sample was small, for example. System 2 is the only one that can follow rules, compare objects on several attributes, and make deliberate choices between options. The ...
... surprising experiments by the psychologist Roy Baumeister and his colleagues has shown conclusively that all variants of voluntary effort— cognitive, emotional, or physical— draw at least partly on a shared pool of mental energy. Their ...
... surprising discovery made by Baumeister's group shows, as he puts it, that the idea of mental energy is more than a mere metaphor. The nervous system consumes more glucose than most other parts of the body, and effortful mental activity ...