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...Dumb Decisions Increasingly, psychologists like Steinberg are trying to connect the familiar patterns of adolescents' wacky behavior to the new findings about their evolving brain structure. It's not always easy to do. "In all likelihood, the behavior is changing because the brain is changing," he says. "But that is still a bit of a leap." A critical tool in making that leap is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). While ordinary MRI reveals brain structure, fMRI actually shows brain activity while subjects are doing assigned tasks...
...polls, receiving 19 votes in the NCAA FCS Coaches poll as opposed to Yale’s three, but it’s still anybody’s ballgame.Then there’s Brown, a team that looks like it might make a run but in all likelihood will back out of the race sometime in the middle of the season. Think New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.Penn, Cornell and Princeton aren’t going to be taken seriously by anyone, but could pull a Ralph Nader and be a pain in the ass enough to be accused...
...same time, analysts said that Mbeki's departure increases the likelihood of a split within the ANC, as staunch Mbeki allies consider forming their own breakaway political party. Despite his apparent unpopularity, Mbeki had 40% of the party behind him last December...
Fiorina, Carly • calls Tina Fey's Palin impression "disrespectful" and "sexist" •compounds gaffe that would-be U.S. vice president Palin doesn't have experience to run a major company by adding that would-be U.S. president McCain doesn't have it either •likelihood of future appearances of on McCain's behalf is seriously diminished...
DiFonzo: Hearing rumors, especially repeatedly, tends to increase our belief in them. In one study, hearing a rumor that "Sophie" had a mental illness tended to reduce participants' liking for her, desire to know her, and likelihood of voting for her in the student-government election. That rumor capitalized on a negative stigma associated with mental illness. Hearing the same rumor repeatedly tends to increase belief in that rumor along a "diminishing-returns" type of curve: One repetition increases belief the most, a second repetition increases belief next most, a third repetition increases it next most, and so on. These...