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Behavioral economics doesn't ignore the market forces that were all-powerful in Econ 101, but it harnesses forces traditionally consigned to Psych 101. Behaviorists have always known we don't really act like the superrational Homo economicus of the neoclassical-model world. Years of studies of patients who don't take their meds, grownups who have unsafe sex, and other flawed decision makers have chronicled the irrationality of Homo sapiens. Some of our foibles are quite specific, like overvaluing things we have, overeating food in larger containers and overestimating the probability of improbable events - the quirk that made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...almost entirely dialogue between Paul and his patients or Paul and Gina. (Two sessions air Sundays at 9 p.m. E.T., three on Mondays at 9 p.m. E.T.) But the talk is the action. There are slashes and parries and feints within feints; the patients circle to guard secrets or act out to test Paul's boundaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Treatment's New Crop of Head Cases | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...city's discriminatory policies and fought those who exploited black homeowners. But the story doesn't end with his premature death in 1965, at 49. By the late 1960s, an increasingly informed and outraged community was fighting back on its own. The ultimate result was the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, which required banks to document their loans and outlawed discriminatory practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...using the hymnal to smooth my dress out. He was next to me, watching me, serious. “Miss Winnie?” The doors drifted shut behind us.“Yes, let’s go.”I’d really tried to act right since Trent had died—if only for Daddy. And I think I’d made a fine stab at propriety. But as we took our first, doomed steps I couldn’t help thinking this was the last time: who would I visit after this...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FEATURED FICTION | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Galileo measured how two balls fell in synchronization from atop the Tower of Pisa,” Kovachy said. If there is some atomic interference—that is, if two atoms of rubidium do not fall simultaneously—then scientists will have to rethink how gravitational forces act on particles generally. Thompson will also be pursuing research in physics. —PAUL C. MATHIS

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Students Win Hertz Foundation Grant to Fund Graduate Studies In Physics | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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