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  1. Evolving English — Steven Pinker

    Steven Pinker discusses the interplay of language and the mind and how psychological processes have shaped the English language.

    The best stuff is about using Google’s enormous database of word-from-books to track how language evolves over time, in particular the gradual erosion of irregular forms in English (keep/kept and drive/drove) in favour of their regular counterparts (beep/beeped and jive/jived).

    Which you WILL want to follow up with a visit to Google Ngrams - http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ - essentially Google Trends but with all written words in the English language for the last 1,000 years (instead of all search terms in the last ten years).

    Mind-blowing.

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  2. Reward, regret and consumer behaviour

    Hyperopia: it’s a term used to describe excessive farsightedness and over-control. Many believe delayed gratification is a good thing. It’s generally thought that in the long term we’ll be happier if we don’t act on impulse. You could say civilisation has been built on this premise. But is there a possibility that in the future we may experience regret?

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    —Huffduffed by daghoidahl 2 years ago

  3. The Dunning-Kruger effect - Science Show

    The dumb get confident, while the intelligent get doubtful. That’s the conclusion that David Dunning and Justin Kruger came to when studying people’s perceptions of their own talents. What has now become known as the Dunning-Kruger effect helps describe why lay people often act as experts and inept pollies get our votes.

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    —Huffduffed by daghoidahl 3 years ago