People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence
Thomas GilovichTag: mind psychology logic human-behavior
To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.
Dan ArielyTag: mind economics human motivation human-behavior wok
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
E.M. ForsterTag: human-behavior
Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
Jeff LindsayTag: human-behavior alienation-versus-humanity
What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it.
William DietrichTag: human-behavior
People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others.
Jestoni RevealedTag: social-change human-behavior
You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.
Carroll BryantTag: friendship love human-nature humanism humankind human-behavior philisophy-life
Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.
Neil AbramsonTag: fear pain human-behavior
Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body...
Kiley MacLeodTag: humanity society philosophy human-society human-behavior
There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.
Richard K. MorganTag: science-fiction planets political patterns machines human-behavior worlds human-behaviour streetlife
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