Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

... none of these considerations bears in the least on the theory of relativity, they were all very much part of how the media portrayed Einstein and it is these traits rather than the profundity of ... cores and lots of gas and other things.Well, one of them was unusually interesting. I first took a spectrum of itin 1989 and then another in 1990. So I had two spectra of these objects and Ihad ... represent on the blackboard the behavior of a subatomic particle. The professor agreed that the new formulation was animprovement and praised the student for having thought of it. By the end of the week,...

... matter of understanding his character and the circumstances that led to the commission of the offence and pointingout the need to establish the extent of his criminal activity (i.e. the extent of his ... theme concerning the reason for the offence. The interrogator exhibits signs of understanding and sympathy and urges the suspect to tell the truth. Attempts are then made toplace the suspect in ... leaving their house. The following day the youth confessed again to the murders, in the presence of a solicitor. In spite of the lack of forensic evidence to link the youth to the murders, the case...

... When the manufacturer and the retailer maximize their profits independently, the manufacturer does not account for the externality of its pricing decision on the retailer’s profits. If the two ... (Because the demand function is linear in both prices, the firm’s demand depends only on its own price and on the expected price of other firm, as long as the resulting demand is not negative.) The ... experiments each of the nine subjects chooses an action simultaneously and the median is then announced. Hence subjects only have the histories of their own actions and the medians. 44 The data are...

... think of at least one application. VSA is basedon the Wyckoff method and analyses the market in terms of supply and demandas represented in the volume of buying and selling, or in the absence of ... behavior,we know little of the dynamics of the complex interactions of cognitive, group, and other psychological forces that underlie them. Psychology offers the marketplace the opportunity to gain ... defines the proportions of the Parthenon, the shape of playing cards and credit cards, and the proportions of Westminster Abbey. The Golden Mean appears throughout nature, in flower patterns, the...

... of the goals and one of the tests of a theory of reasoning excellence is that it should be faithful to the practice of Ameliorative Psychology. When conjoined with the de-scriptive results of ... rate of lovemaking and subtract fromit their rate of fighting. If the couple makes love more often than theyfight, then they’ll probably report being happy; if they fight more oftenthan they ... personal) cues. Second, the 30 Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgmentdescribe ten of its instances. This will give the reader some idea of the range and robus tness of the Golden Rule.1....