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How to Avoid Business Disasters with Behavioral Science

  Caption: Sad business woman (pxhere)   Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal led to a massive fall in the Facebook’s stock price, governments around the world...
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Knowing Just Enough To Be Dangerous: How Overconfidence Subverts Rational Politics

  By Joel Lehman     “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -Shakespeare It happens every year. It’s the...
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What Would Gandhi Do About Trump? High-Time For a Science Of Wisdom

    Written by Charles Cassidy MPhys, Director of Evidence-based Wisdom   It was 3:30 AM, and my wife and I were crumpled in stunned silence in the...
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Stop Losing Money: Invest Wisely

You’re probably losing money right now, without even knowing it! Why? Well, if you have money sitting in a bank account that’s giving you...
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How To Avoid Impulsive Temptations

      Imagine that every day in your office, there is a lady that drives a small basket of cakes, with your favourite chocolate donuts. In...
Your money

9 Strategies for Effective Donors

You're generous and kind. You care about other people and want to help them have great lives. You want to make a positive impact...
Emotional & Mental Well-Being

Video: How To Reach Your Personal and Societal Goals

Author’s photo with an earring, which he got intentionally to project an image to others so as to achieve his social goals   The science of...
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How I Escaped The Darkness of Mental Illness

  Hot tears were streaming down my face. My chest heaved up and down with heavy sobs. I couldn’t stop them, no matter what I...
Dr. Hal Arkes

Video: 4 Strategies to Protect Yourself From Thinking Errors

Dr. Hal Arkes     Our minds are wired to make irrational decisions and commit a wide variety of thinking errors, called cognitive biases by scholars. Yet...
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Religious and Rational?

“Wisdom shouts in the street; in the public square she raises her voice.”   Proverbs 1:20 Common English Bible   The Biblical book of Proverbs is full of...