by Kare Anderson | Apr 8, 2012 | behavior, decisionmaking
1. Don’t Get Anchored Down How would you answer these two questions? 1. Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? 2. What’s your best estimate of Turkey’s population? Actually the sequence of the questions contaminates your answer. If you are like...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 8, 2012 | behavior, Book, Choice, decisionmaking
… you may want to recognize ways to avoid such self- sabotage — not that you would need such advice, of course, yet your intelligent friends might. According to the 15 experts cited by Yale professor, Robert J. Steinberg, Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid, high...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 12, 2011 | behavior, Book, decisionmaking
To this day I’m mortified when I see a box of chocolates. Perhaps sharing this story may save you from embarrassing yourself in a similar way. I was in the Antwerp airport, heading back to San Francisco. Before settling into a seat at my gate I bought two indulgences...
by Kare Anderson | Apr 10, 2011 | behavior, Book, Choice, contagion, decisionmaking
Reinventing himself when he arrived at college Sam, “who had never had much luck with women” successfully beguiled a string of women into one-night stands, leaving his male friends shaking their heads in wonder because the women, though dumped, saw him as “sensitive,...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 19, 2010 | Book, Collective Clout, community, decisionmaking
If villagers living in the midst of poverty and war can be nudged to work better together with just three simple rules (honed via a parental competition study) and a reward (money, in this case) then maybe your group (team, board, committee, etc.) could too:1. The...
