...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.
Jonah LehrerTags: thought
A lie told well is just as good as the truth.
Jonah LehrerJust because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
Jonah LehrerTags: truth ideas scientific-method proof
Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.
Jonah Lehrerthere simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.
Jonah LehrerHow do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no sense—if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for example—then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.
Jonah LehrerTags: psychology
A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placebos were so effective. His experiment was brutally straightforward: he gave college students electric shocks while they were stuck in an fMRI machine. (The subjects were well compensated, at least by undergraduate standards.)
Jonah LehrerTags: psychology
To have a style is to be stuck.
Jonah LehrerTags: design
Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. “It wakes us right up.
Jonah LehrerTags: dissent creativity understanding assumptions surprise alternative-views invigoration new-perspectives
The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions.... [W]hen the composition of the group is right—enough people with different perspectives running into one another in unpredictable ways—the group dynamic will take care of itself. All these errant discussions add up. In fact, they may even be the most essential part of the creative process. Although such conversations will occasionally be unpleasant—not everyone is always in the mood for small talk or criticism—that doesn’t mean that they can be avoided. The most creative spaces are those which hurl us together. It is the human friction that makes the sparks.
Jonah LehrerTags: creativity unpredictability perspectives groups conversations friction brainstorming group-dynamics discussions
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