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Women are no longer eating for two – or one, for that matter.
We now have access to an Internet containing a vast store of information much bigger than any individual brain can carry - and that’s not always a good thing.
Simply filling out a bracket – even with random or uninformed choices – is enough to boost your confidence in success, and to get you to put more money on the line.
Opposition inspires more confidence in one’s position than support and also helps to turn judgments into actions. This helps explain why attack ads are a crucial tool in politicians’ arsenals.
Confidence is a strong correlate to test scores, but many low-scoring students are over-confident and should be more realistic about their abilities.
Heavier people are less likely to be hired and more likely to be fired – and some of this may begin at school.
This is the second article in a series, How we make decisions, which explores our decision-making processes. How well do we consider all factors involved in a decision, and what helps and what holds us…
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