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That falls in line with what Princeton professor Daniel Kahneman coined "the availability heuristic": the concept that if people can think of an incident in which a risk has come to fruition, they will exaggerate its likelihood. "Somehow the probability of an accident increases [in one's mind] after you...
But our experiences also sway us, goading our brains into assessing risks based on rapid whispers of positive or negative emotion. "If you look at genocide, we just don't react," says Paul Slovic, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon. "With 9/11 we lost 3,000 people in...
Marvin Minsky ’50 thinks he has it figured out, and in his new book, “The Emotion Machine,” he’s willing to tell you.
“The Emotion Machine” is a complement to Minsky’s last work, “The Society of Mind,” which put forth a number of radical ideas about the human brain. “The Emotion Machine,” on...
In the Harvard men’s basketball team’s 83-75 win over Lehigh on Saturday afternoon, the Crimson claimed victory partly due to its strongest rebounding game this season. The Mountain Hawks entered the game out-rebounding the competition by 5.3 boards a game, the second...