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...latest research, conducted in collaboration with social psychologist Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University and presented last weekend at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston, Gilbert bolsters the theory that our inability to predict enjoyment of our future experiences keeps us from accurately predicting what will make us happiest in the future overall...
...year history of studying policy for energy innovation was the decisive factor in Harvard winning this grant,” she said. The grant was one of five that the Foundation announced last Thursday, totalling $6.6 million. Each grant–including those awarded to MIT, Carnegie Mellon, the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force and the Bipartisan Policy Center—has a unique focus. The Harvard grant aims to speed up the development of clean-energy technologies, according to the Foundation’s press release. The Kennedy School group will study the efficacy of past and present...
...average about 50 cents. People in the group that had been primed to feel sad offered up four times that price, more than $2 on average - but were unaware that the video had any impact on their spending. The experiment, which was conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pittsburgh, will be published in the June issue of Psychological Science...
...sense of self, so spending more money on a new object - which people may identify, in a way, as an extension of themselves - starts to undo that deflation. "People want to value themselves, and this is one way to do it," says Cynthia Cryder, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the study's authors. That same emotional hunger may help to explain other costly behaviors, according to the authors, like aggressively playing the stock market or prowling for a new romance. The takeaway, especially for anyone on a budget: "If you're sad, maybe you should...
...winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge, Carnegie Mellon's Chevy Tahoe, a.k.a. "Boss," finished 20 minutes ahead of the runner-up, a Passat from Stanford. The Chevy's average speed of 14 m.p.h. (23 km/h) wasn't exactly blazing but was a big improvement over the 2004 race, in which no robots finished at all. The atmosphere was celebratory, though tempered by the uncanniness of watching driverless cars la Stephen King's Christine, a 1958 Plymouth with a taste for blood. "It's pretty creepy when your vehicle starts beeping and it peels out," says a grad student...