Word: automaticism
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On the ensuing Big Green drive, Dartmouth had its biggest play of the game to that point—a 15 yard roughing-the-passer penalty on Harvard for an automatic first down. The offense quickly stalled, however, and the Big Green was forced to punt the ball once again...
How can you predict the votes of the undecided? It's actually not that hard. Our brains generate automatic responses to most stimuli. As the psychologist Robert Zajonc wrote compellingly in 1980, "We do not just a see 'a house.' We see a 'handsome' house, an 'ugly' house, or a...
We should respect undecided voters because they are trying hard to weigh the pros and cons and not be swayed by automatic, emotional responses. In the end, most of them will go with their guts - psychologists have shown that even those voters who at the explicit and conscious level deny...
To those of us who follow the news and try to report it, these kinds of circumstances are dispiriting. Political assassination is almost routine. Sometimes I feel it is carried out without any real strategy: either out of spite or to enforce the creeping authoritarianism of the status quo, to...
Games don’t come much bigger than this. When the Harvard men’s soccer team takes the field against Brown tomorrow night in Providence, R.I., the two best teams in the Ivy League will be on display. Up for grabs? A big head start in the...