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...this approach to sticky sticky is that underpinning the Heaths' advice is an avalanche of social-science research. Simplicity, for example, is intuitively attractive--Southwest's goal of being the low-fare airline is elegant in its minimalism. The Heaths push beyond what sounds like it should work and explain why it actually does...
...dismayed by your article "Turning Hunger into Hatred." The article explained in detail everything the Israelis have destroyed and how miserable Palestinians' lives are as a result. Not once did it explain the defensive reasons for Israel's actions. The blame lies solely with the Palestinians for encouraging terrorist activities...
This proclivity for poor timing is not described in any textbook but is a phenomenon well known to psychologists. Two concepts explain the behavior. The first is recency bias, a tendency to place a disproportionately large emphasis on recent price performance without sufficiently weighing other relevant facts, including long-term performance and valuation...
Just five months into his job as president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Etienne de Villiers faced a hostile crowd of doubles pros at the Masters Cup in Shanghai to explain to them why he would have to curtail their sport to save it. The players had already filed suit against the ATP, and there was De Villiers last November, back swinging just four months after cancer surgery, telling them he was going to go ahead with a shortened, no-ad scoring system; a super tie-break instead of a third set; and a rule that doubles players...
...reject the notion of timelines, but he scolded the U.S. for attacking commanders of the Shi'ite Mahdi Army in Baghdad. TIME.com asked Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, one of America's foremost experts on Shi'ite politics and culture in Iran and beyond, to explain why Maliki and the U.S. can't seem to stay on the same page...