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...likes to admit that he can’t trust his gut, and Harvard students don’t like it any better than most. I don’t like it either, but whenever I’m feeling perceptive—especially during shopping week—I try to remember Ernest Burgess and the Illinois Parole Board...
After an internship with Creative Artists Agency, I’m confident that the entertainment industry is where I’m bound. But I occasionally still have a small feeling in my gut that this Paris-obsessed world is superficial. Yet the political world didn’t seem much better after a summer with the Justice Department last year. Call me crazy, but discussing the intricacies of which Senator is screwed (or screwing) doesn’t bring the same excitement as when my father and I can debate the merits of shows like...
...mother of two young girls in Mt. Hood, Ore., gets a stomachache every time she looks up at the volcano nearby: the glaciers at its peak have definitely been receding over the years. As the mountainside gets browner and browner - evidence of climate change - the knot in Larsen's gut tightens...
...Gerd Gigerenzer, a psychologist at Berlin's Max Planck Institute for Human Development, dubbed this effect the recognition heuristic and started detailing how it is used to manipulate consumer decision making. Gigerenzer's new book, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, describes a study in which people tasted peanut butter from three jars. Each jar contained the same peanut butter, but 75% of participants thought the contents tasted better in the jar that had a name-brand label on it. In another study, published this month by researchers at Stanford University, children given the same French fries and chicken...
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" that an al-Qaeda attack in the U.S. may be imminent is more than just a hunch - it echoes the prevailing sentiment among intelligence and counterterrorism officials in Europe...