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...that hard. Our brains generate automatic responses to most stimuli. As the psychologist Robert Zajonc wrote compellingly in 1980, "We do not just a see 'a house.' We see a 'handsome' house, an 'ugly' house, or a 'pretentious' house ... We sometimes delude ourselves that we proceed in a rational manner and weigh all the pros and cons of the various alternatives. But this is probably seldom the actual case. Quite often 'I decided in favor of X' is no more than 'I like X.'" Most of us pick what we like, Zajonc said, and then we justify it later...
...friendship, and frozen treats.Unfortunately, what were originally sources of excitement soon turned sour. I learned that there were no qualifications because I was relegated to manual labor: whether I was churning the italian ice every fifteen minutes, tackling a never-ending pile of dishes, or furiously scrubbing all manner of surfaces, I was always occupied by a paranoid and micromanaging Ron, who seemed to be perennially watching me for the slightest mistake. I also discovered that the staff at IceScapes was so young and inexperienced because of an astronomical turnover rate, and that my “friends?...
...splash to keep you in the game, we suggest that she come in a wheelchair, and when the moment is right give her “the signal” to stand up and boogie. Everybody loves an underdog. When dancing with her, grind in a clockwise manner as is befitting a gentleman. Then comes the final dinner where they separate the men from the boys, the bourgeois from the landed gentry, the ribosomes from the other organelles. If you make it to the A.D.’s, prepare a brief treatise on the mating habits of speckled warblers...
...junior faculty position.” Maniatis told the mourners that he scheduled a meeting with the molecular and cellular biology concentrator, expecting to meet a brilliant student but one with a big ego. “Instead, I was taken in by Peter’s homely manner, his energy, and his sheer intelligence,” Maniatis said. “Peter did not disappoint during his time in my lab. He accomplished more in a summer than most do in an entire undergraduate research career.” The funeral will be held in Cai?...
...experts say that the whole premise of NSA domestic spying and data-mining is junk science. It's the worst of both worlds: the government is being bogged down listening to communications between innocent people, and they're not channeling resources toward those who really act in a suspicious manner. Law enforcement and security experts criticize demographic profiling for the same reasons...