Word: opinionizing
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Shortcuts, for example, make us more prone to do whatever everyone else is doing - or whatever Jim Cramer tells us to do. "The brain cannot afford to re-evaluate on a millisecond by millisecond basis. So it will use other people's opinion as a proxy for its own," says Emory University neuroeconomist Gregory Berns, author of the new book Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently...
...test this herd behavior, Berns and his colleagues hooked 32 people up to brain-imaging equipment and watched them reckon with a group opinion (about whether two shapes were the same or different) that was clearly false. They found that the brain worked to integrate the false opinion into its perception of the world. In other words, if other people start selling a stock you thought was valuable, you may want to do the same - at first...
...read with interest your article on cancer. I myself was operated on last summer for prostate cancer. I am 74, so I hope for the 99% chance for the next five years. However, my opinion on cancer is that it is simply creation in reverse. Otto V. Ludvigsen, HOLTE, DENMARK...
Nowhere is such skepticism more pronounced than in the U.K., where the nation's "special relationship" with the U.S. has failed to insulate American studies from public opinion. According to ucas, the body that handles applications to British universities, the number of people wanting to major in the subject has plunged from 1,086 a decade ago to just 381 last year. "Students see us as apologists for America," says Ian Bell, a professor of American literature at Keele University, where enrollment in the American-studies department has halved since Bush took office. "They don't want to be branded...
...wound up spending a long time in the salon, though I didn't have to ask many questions. Just about everyone seemed to have a strong opinion. It was the sort of place where everyone knows one another in a small-town way, and they all talk and laugh and say outrageous things. Renee Martin, the salon's owner, told me she and her husband disagree so strongly, they can't even talk about the election anymore. And that was surprising because at first she was afraid of Obama. "What had me scared," she explained, "was the whole thing about...