Word: subjectivity
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Each of these tests illustrates the psychological trait known as anchoring. Humans tend to latch on to one specific piece of information when making decisions, in this case the habits of the actor. The social environment is extremely influential. If this fellow study subject is going to take an above-average number of M&M's, so will I. Call it the "I'll have what she's having" effect. (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...there are stars, and then there's Hugo Chávez, the prime subject of Oliver Stone's docu-pic South of the Border. The Venezuelan President arrived on the Lido with a couple dozen bodyguards - an unnecessary precaution since the festival crowd greeted the movie with rapture, applauding Chávez's more fiery statements and booing whenever George W. Bush came on the screen. At the end, el Presidente strode into the audience, giving an impromptu five-minute speech and shaking the hand of anyone within reach. (See pictures from the 65th Venice Film Festival...
...What would you do to reform health care? -Leslie Gillis, Arlington, Mass. I'd get the government out of the way. It's so important that the maximum number of people get the maximum amount of care. The harder the subject is - the more difficult, the more complicated - the more you need the marketplace...
...feel about the way you were shown in the Sacha Baron Cohen film Brüno? -Matthew Thacker, Bowling Green, Ohio I don't feel good about it because I was the subject of a trick, and nobody likes to be tricked. I understand they're not making a tremendous amount of money off this movie, so maybe the American people aren't as cynical as they assumed. (Watch the conversation with Ron Paul...
...Former Iraqi Baathists in Syria have become the subject of an escalating dispute between the Iraqi and Syrian governments that began when suicide bombers blew up government buildings in Baghdad in August, killing 95 people. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the bombings on former Baathists in Syria and accused Damascus of harboring and supporting groups that are orchestrating attacks in Iraq. Syria denied the allegations and offered to turn over any suspects in the bombings if Iraq could provide evidence of their guilt. A standoff ensued, dampening the slowly warming relations between the two countries and putting cooperation...