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...failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable ones to blacks, their fingers fairly fly on the keys. When the task is switched, with whites being labeled failures and blacks called glorious, fingers slow considerably, a sure sign the brain is struggling...
...progressed, our ability to carry out our murderous plans advanced along with it. "For the same aggressive impulse, we can do a lot more killing," says psychologist John Dovodio of Yale University. The bad news is that wisdom, the human faculty that trumps all this, can be very slow to arrive. The good news is that with enough time, both individuals and the species as a whole do acquire...
Things look dark. Today, the whole globe faces a food crisis, an energy crisis, and a climate crisis. As the American “slow-motion train-wreck,” as Harvard Business School Dean Jay O. Light termed the Wall Street emergency, accelerates toward derailment, we now also face a financial crisis. Most dangerous, and inextricably connected to the credit crunch, is the penumbra of one more cataclysm: the “development crisis...
...year-old man who has just been released from a mental institution—or “the bad place,” as he calls it. Written in the style of an extended, journal-like letter to his ex-wife, Pat documents his obsession with her, his slow recovery from mental illness, and the importance of the Philadelphia Eagles football team to his personal relationships. But though Quick’s first novel is an engaging enough read, it is also a fluffy one. Despite the narrator’s professed desire to better understand himself, his world...
...casual heads-up on what skill they could help me perfect before the big day. Grateful for this courtesy, my mother anticipated a suggestion that I might put a little extra time into, say, parallel parking. Three point turns, maybe? Hell, even “coming to a slow stop” would have been less shameful than what the instructor actually had to say: “I think Katie might benefit from more practice on her right hand turns...