Tag: cognitive
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Your memory of an event is unique.
Your memory of an event is unique. If you experience something, whether it be as benign as watching a movie in the cinema, or as traumatic as being in a bank when it is raided by masked gunmen, your memory of that event will be unique. Your memory of watching a movie will be vastly…
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You should pay people less to lie
In 1959 Festinger and Carlsmith asked the participants in their experiment to complete an extremely boring couple of tasks for an hour. Each participant was then offered money to lie to the next one and say that they would find the task really interesting and enjoyable. They were offered either $1 or $20. After they…