You are at the casino watching a game of Black Jack, when a player who has a hand of sixteen asks for another card. You quip to yourself “What an idiot! He should have held at 16.” But who’s to say you wouldn’t have done the same? After all, decision...
Diogenes was asked concerning paintings of those who had escaped shipwreck: “Look, you who think the gods have no care of human things, what do you say to so many persons preserved from death by their especial favor?”, to which Diogenes replied: “Why, I say that their pictures are not...
The false consensus effect demonstrates an inability of individuals to process information rationally, it suggests that conventional economic analysis of strategic behavior, which assumes unbiased expectation formation, is deficient. A Simple Theory of the False Consensus Effect, Young Park In a sense, every social observer is an intuitive psychologist who...
“We know – intellectually – that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.” Margaret Heffernan...
