Tag: behavioral psychology
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Supplements can create false confidence about health
Taking supplements can produce a sense of doing something for your health that the pills don’t actually deliver. Here’s the licensing-effect problem nobody discusses.
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Most people won’t follow their own emergency plan
Households make emergency plans they never rehearse and won’t execute under stress. The research on actual disaster behavior is sobering — and useful.
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The design psychology behind casino carpets
Casino carpets look ugly on purpose. The garish patterns are a deliberate design choice rooted in attention research and how humans process visual stimuli.