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  Steve Franks

  

  The surprising reason people change their minds

  BBC Future - Claudia Hammond

  Wherever you look at the moment, we seem divided – Brexiteer or Remainer, pro-President Trump or against. And no matter how much we argue, none of us appear to change our minds. Whether at the dinner table or on social media, it can seem as though our opinions are more fixed than ever. But new …

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  Steve Franks

  

  Why incompetent people often think they’re actually the best

  Vox - German Lopez

  Maybe you’ve experienced this at school or work before: Dealing with someone who thinks he’s much better at his job than he really is. This can not only be really annoying, but it can lead to disaster as a group project is made much more difficult by someone’s unchecked ego. A new TED-Ed video, …

• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/the-difference-between-rationality-and-intelligence.html

  

  Steve Franks

  Sep 25, 2016
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  Steve Franks

  

  Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy

  The Atlantic - Joe Pinsker

  There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being good at whatever it is one spends one’s days doing, and having the freedom to make life decisions independently. But …

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  Steve Franks

  

  People Want Power Because They Want Autonomy

  The Atlantic - Julie Beck

  Power is a force that needs an object: To have power, a person has to have it over something, or someone. One would think that this would be the appeal of power—to be able to control things, to change them to fit your vision of reality. (This can obviously be good or bad, depending on who’s in power …