Thinking, Fast and Slow*Major New York Times Bestseller |
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... response to mental effort is distinct from emotional arousal. Hess's work did not have much to do with hypnosis, but I concluded that the idea of a visible indication of mental effort had promise as a research topic. A graduate student ...
... response was an inverted V. As you experienced it if you tried Add-1 or Add-3, effort builds up with every added digit that you hear, reaches an almost intolerable peak as you rush to produce a transformed string during and immediately ...
... response to mental overload is selective and precise: System 2 protects the most important activity, so it receives the attention it needs; “spare capacity” is allocated second by second to other tasks. In our version of the gorilla ...
... response is organized. Mental multiplication of two-digit numbers and the Add-3 task are near the limit of what most ... responses. Consider the following: Count all occurrences of the letterfin this page. This is not a task you have ...
... response to a stirring film making a series of choices that involve conflict trying to impress others responding kindly to a partner's bad behavior interacting with a person of a different race (for prejudiced individuals) The list of ...