Graeme Newell

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Default Effect

Why is it that decades later, you can flawlessly sing every single word of Bohemian Rhapsody, yet completely forget the three items on your grocery list? Songs stimulate multiple senses ...
Why We Misjudge Our Chance of Winning

Why We Misjudge Our Chance of Winning

Learn how a wily cognitive bias called “category size bias” causes us to misjudge our chances of success ...
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Why is it that decades later, you can flawlessly sing every single word of Bohemian Rhapsody, yet completely forget the three items on your grocery list? Songs stimulate multiple senses ...
4 Brain Hacks to Improve Your Odds of Success

4 Brain Hacks to Improve Your Odds of Success

New brain research reveals pretty much all of us are terrible planners. But there’s hope. Learn four smart ways to shut down a cognitive bias called “the planning fallacy” ...
Congruence Bias

Congruence Bias

Why is it that decades later, you can flawlessly sing every single word of Bohemian Rhapsody, yet completely forget the three items on your grocery list? Songs stimulate multiple senses ...
The 3 Emotions that Motivate us to Save for the Future

The 3 Emotions that Motivate us to Save for the Future

How can we motivate ourselves to save more? Neuroscience research is revealing the three emotions that are most effective at getting us to save for the future ...
Compassion Fade

Compassion Fade

Why does the suffering of a small group of people tend to bother us more than the suffering of a huge group? Our brain can’t handle the scale. It sees a faceless GROUP, when it should be seeing INDIVIDUAL SOULS ...
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Backfire Effect

Why is it that decades later, you can flawlessly sing every single word of Bohemian Rhapsody, yet completely forget the three items on your grocery list? Songs stimulate multiple senses ...
The Brain Bias that Causes Us to Trust the Wrong People

The Brain Bias that Causes Us to Trust the Wrong People

Why are we so quick to trust some people we hardly know? Part of the problem is a crafty cognitive bias called the “halo effect.” ...
The Biggest Money Losing Mistake

The Biggest Money Losing Mistake

New brain science insights are revealing the strange and freaky ways our very flawed human brain makes money decisions. Click on the link in the description to learn the #1 mistake we’re most likely to make when investing our hard-earned ...