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Politics & government. Cool things. Cool things. Games. Geneaology. Ciphers & Puzzles. Quora. Psychology. To predict what will make you happy, ask a stranger rather than. Want to know how much you’d enjoy an experience? You’re better off asking someone who has been through it, even if they’re a complete stranger, than to find out information for yourself. This advice comes from Daniel Gilbert from Harvard University, who espoused it in his superb book Stumbling on Happiness. Now, he has found new support for the idea by studying speed-daters and people receiving feedback from their peers. In the first study, he found that female students were better able to predict how much they would enjoy a speed-date if they listened to the experiences of strangers than if they make their own assessments based on available information.
Likewise, the second study found that people more accurately foresaw their reactions to criticism when they knew how someone else had reacted than when they had the information for themselves. This interesting result masks a second one of equal importance – people don’t believe that this works. Photo by Laughlin, found on Flickr. You won't find consciousness in the brain - opinion - 07 January. Science and Physics. 13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New S. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively.
To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Find out about our cookies and how to change them Log in Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password close My New Scientist Look for Science Jobs Harsh world makes kids' chromosomes look too old Almost half of new electricity is clean and green Where am I? Flimsy rocks allowed Earth's plates to start moving Why do we love to organise knowledge into trees? REVIEW: 21:00 07 April 2014 From studying the bible to visualising computer storage, Manuel Lima's sumptuous The Book of Trees explores the tree diagram's appeal for showing information Pro violinists fail to spot Stradivarius in blind test TODAY: 20:00 07 April 2014 Could you tell a new violin from a vintage Stradivarius? Who really decoded Down's syndrome? Where am I? ScienceBlogs.
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Health/medicine. The Radiation Boom - Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do. Blogs. Parodies Lost. One of the great mysteries of modern society is what goes on in the brains of Republican Members of Congress (Motto: "If I Hurts Obama, It Helps America. ") Forget the insane obsession (is that redundant?) To slash the budget in emulation of those economic powerhouses Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. Forget the editing of those stirring words on the Statue of Liberty to now read: "No more room, go home greaseballs and ragheads. " Forget the fiscal blinders they're required to wear, the only explanation for policies that continue to empower the wealthy at the expense of our dwindling middle class. These so-called patriots are not only insensitive and cruel, apparently believing that people in poverty want to be poor, and that all it takes it a little hard work and gumption, they're fiscal morons.
The last Congress passed a landmark foodsafety program, the first major overall of our food safety laws since 1938. The FDA is currently receiving. What's the cost of 48 million people getting sick? Technology - Pogue’s Posts Blog.