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🙋 Is the 'hot hand' real? 'Jeopardy!' offers clues
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Is the 'hot hand' real? 'Jeopardy!' offers clues
Stanford researchers found that contestants bet bigger on Daily Doubles when they're on a streak—even though their performance barely budges.

Lovely piece found in my #lrb backlog about handwriting, the brain and the “line that is not stupid”
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind #psychology #amreading

🐀 Rats demonstrate ability to replay episodic memories in complex experimental settings
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Rats demonstrate ability to replay episodic memories in complex experimental settings
In a new study Indiana University researchers observed episodic memory in rats to a degree never documented before, suggesting that rats can serve as a model for complex cognitive processes often considered exclusively human. Unlike semantic memory, which involves isolated facts, episodic memory involves replaying events in the order and context in which they occurred.

What Psychologists Get WRONG About Nihilism
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What do you call the "compulsive need" for "fear of missing out", even if it means manufacturing a phantom FOMO? 🤔
#question #FOMO #psychology #anxiety #compulsions #feeling