Category: psychology

29 posts

12/16/201524 days of Hackage, 2015: day 16: safe; what is safety anyway?
11/30/2015Clever chess tactics that were not what they seemed
6/12/2015What unexpected life lessons have you learned from your father?
6/11/2015Why I have never considered using a treadmill desk
6/1/2015Yes, I want my writing to be dated!
11/25/2014Report on my second day of Stoic Week 2014: mindfulness
11/14/2014Ransoms, hypocrisy, and bourgeois virtues
11/12/2014My predictions after Carlsen and Anand are tied after round 4 of the World Chess Championship
11/12/2014SorryWatch: good and bad apologies
11/9/2014Understand and use motivation contagion: everyone matters
11/8/2014Smart versus unpredictable people: whom do you prefer?
11/6/2014My predictions and hopes for the 2014 Carlsen-Anand world chess championship rematch
11/4/2014Some good science-based reading for Election Day, whether or not you voted
11/1/2014How I avoid demotivating myself away from voting
10/31/2014Win ugly or lose pretty: do you agree?
5/10/2014What does it mean that I've never liked the "Mona Lisa" painting?
12/13/2013Stop limiting yourself by labeling yourself left or right brained
12/3/2013Geeking out at the annual CMU psychology holiday party: beauty and selling out
8/14/2013Power and the AOL public firing
5/9/2013Back to what running is really about for me
1/23/2013Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship 2013, Round 2: surviving time trouble
1/15/2013How the best player won the last Pittsburgh Chess Club Tuesday night tournament
12/18/2012Round 6 of Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: playing pragmatically
12/11/2012Round 5 of Pittsburgh Chess Club Tournament: psychology of losing another won game
9/15/2012Déja vu in chess: recognize this Sicilian pattern?
1/3/2012Ignoring branding: the double-blind test
11/6/2011The real reason for the CoffeeScript/JavaScript flame war
10/28/2011When is something overpriced? 36 examples
10/9/2011Success Always Starts With Failure