Word: automaticism
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One can easily understand why being mayor of New York City might be a difficult job to give up. Michael Bloomberg is having a particularly difficult time dealing with his upcoming separation from mayoral power. For one thing, he has installed enormous countdown timers in several government offices that measure...
But how do you pray in times of crisis? After the fall of the twin towers, most prayers for self-preservation also included prayers for the dead and for the safety of all. That sort of bigger, more compassionate plea is not quite as automatic this time around. Is it...
In the 1990s, psychologist and social scientist Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University co-created what's known as the implicit-association test (IAT), a way of exploring the instant connections the brain draws between races and traits. Previously administered only in the lab but now available online (at implicit.harvard.edu) the...
The brain, of course, is not all amygdala, and there are higher regions that can talk sense to the lower ones. Phelps cites studies showing that when blacks and whites are flashed pictures of faces from the other race so quickly that the subjects weren't consciously aware of seeing...
Taking all these factors together - and to the extreme - some people (Congressmen included) have suggested that companies might even be at risk of not being able to pay workers. So far, there's little, if any, evidence of that. Automatic Data Processing, which handles paychecks for 400,000 small businesses...