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...NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS (Yale University Press; 293 pages), the two University of Chicago professors sketch a new approach to public policy that takes into account the odd realities of human behavior, like the deep and unthinking tendency to conform, even in areas--like energy consumption--where conformity is irrelevant. For 30 years, Thaler has documented the ways people act illogically: we eat more from larger plates, care twice as much about losing money as about gaining it, fret over rare events like plane crashes instead of common ones like car accidents. That research underpins Nudge...
...well-to-do suburbs of Los Angeles, a part of the country in which family dysfunction has almost invariably been depicted to be the unfortunate yet tolerable by-product of a desirably moneyed and beautiful life. Historically, viewers tend to excuse this and other kinds of objectionable behavior in television when presented with it as either part of a drama (polygamy, “Big Love”) or with a strong emphasis on the aforementioned glamour (general irresponsibility, “Entourage”). It is of note, then, that neither “Californication?...
...metaphorical kind, a real, jump-up-and-down, pillow fight. Despite all the build-up, DeGraw shows that he won’t go farther than what the average 10-year-old is allowed to watch on YouTube, and the rest of the video is filled with naughty behavior appropriate for “The Little Rascals.” This is why this music video fails as a rock video, although it makes a decent pop video: it fits all ages, showing a clean-cut singer-protagonist and a blonde TV star with a girl-next-door appeal...
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials say Brown's arrest was not a stroke of luck: the officer who tagged Brown was trained in reading body language and behavior detection, specifically in sensing micro-expressions on a person's face. On Tuesday at Orlando, the first security officer to see Brown found his behavior "immediately suspicious," said TSA spokesman Christopher White. White said that Brown continued to act suspiciously while he was watched for the next 30 minutes...
Neither the FBI nor the Transportation Security Administration specifies exactly what that suspicious behavior consisted of. But the science of reading "micro-expressions" is becoming more sophisticated. "In micro-expression, something is on and off the face in about 1/30th of a second. So it's very, very rapid," says Dr. Maureen O'Sullivan, who trains U.S. airport security officers in recognizing them in order to spot potential troublemakers, including terrorists. Since the summer of 2007, O'Sullivan, working with micro-expression detection pioneer Paul Ekman, has helped train thousands of airport security officers in techniques to detect the kind...