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28 September 2016

Maria KonnikovaKorrents 28 Sept 2016

From one piece Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Talent needs the right environment and opportunity to flourish; genes alone do not make a genius.

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Opportunity must be there. Genes are great, but they need to have the right environment in which to flourish.

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Saying that training is everything in reaching elite performance is tempting but wrong; genes and environment both matter.

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We cannot predict with accuracy who will become élite in a given field, but we know that genes and environment matter and that we all have different natural peaks that we can reach through application and training. Saying that training is everything may be tempting, but it’s wrong.

Practice Doesn’t Make Perfectnewyorker.com

23 August 2016

Maria KonnikovaKorrents 23 Aug 2016

From one piece Politics and Personality: Most of What You Read Is Malarkey 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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People readily accept counterintuitive findings from social psychology as long as they do not conflict with their notions of what ought to be.

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Social psychology touches on our most cherished beliefs about how the world should operate. We are more than happy to accept the counterintuitive—as long as it doesn’t conflict with our central notions of what ought to be.

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Correlations found between openness and liberalism are largely tautological, because political leanings were built into the personality measures.

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So what happens when we look for correlations between, say, openness and liberalism? We find one because it’s largely tautological.

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29 December 2015

Maria KonnikovaKorrents 29 Dec 2015

From one piece How Stories Deceive 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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When people are swept up in a powerful narrative, their reason often falls by the wayside.

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Azzopardi’s frauds relied on a quirk of human nature: when we become swept up in powerful narrative, our reason often falls by the wayside.

How Stories Deceivenewyorker.com
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Emotion is the key to empathy: stir people emotionally and they identify with you; keep them cold and empathy does not grow.

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Emotion is the key to empathy. Arouse us emotionally and we will identify with you and your plight. Keep us cold, and empathy won’t blossom.

How Stories Deceivenewyorker.com
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Being immersed in a story lowers our guard, which is what makes stories a powerful tool of deception.

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That’s precisely why they can be such a powerful tool of deception. When we’re immersed in a story, we let down our guard.

How Stories Deceivenewyorker.com

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