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		<title>Should We Always Stop And Think? What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Being On Autopilot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moments after take-off on January 13, 1982, an Air Florida plane smashed into Washington DC&#8217;s 14th Street bridge, killing 78 passengers, motorists and crew members. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, one of the factors that likely contributed to this crash was ice covering critical engine probes, giving the pilots a false reading of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolved: To &#8220;Just Notice&#8221; Shortcomings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again, when many of us will once again resolve to lose weight, stop smoking, get organized, watch less TV, be more productive — in sum, improve ourselves in one way or another. Despite the notoriously low success rate of New Year&#8217;s resolutions, hope springs eternal and we think &#8220;this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: What Is The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do To De-Stress Your Holidays? Answer: Lower Your Expectations.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope rises with holidays. Without even realizing it, we imagine perfect family celebrations: Mom praises the meal, even picky Pauline is ecstatic about her gift, our oddball cousin Ken acts normal, Uncle Pete doesn&#8217;t drink too much, and Grandpa doesn&#8217;t deafen the room with the TV volume. The details vary from family to family, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managerial Leadership: Is A Hidden Metaphor Misleading You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to get the professionals on her staff to stop wasting time, one novice manager instituted a policy which required staff members to fill out time sheets in which they accounted for how they used every hour of every day. The manager was both shocked and angered when these sheets were turned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Beware of Pick Pockets&#8221; Warning INCREASES Thefts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The law of unintended consequences is highlighted in a story I heard about the New York City subway system. Some years ago, a decision was made to try to decrease pick pocketing by posting signs, such as &#8220;Beware of Pickpockets!&#8221; The result? The incidence of pick pocketing increased! Looking back, the theory was that seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Feeling Stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three-ringed binders, sharpened pencils, shiny lunch boxes, cool book bags … September evokes classroom memories. For some, those recollections include dismal memories of feeling stupid. I recall learning &#8211; or rather, struggling to learn &#8211; how to do long division. I stood at the blackboard praying that the solution to the problem would miraculously spell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Support: &#8220;Tell me, is the cursor still there?&#8221; Customer: &#8220;No, I&#8217;m alone right now.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever said something &#8220;stupid&#8221;? (Haven&#8217;t we all?) And how does that happen? Can blind spots help explain our verbal blunders? Maybe our goof-ups show not how dumb we are, but how creative we can be. When we encounter jargon that is meaningless to us, our minds cleverly produce a meaning that makes some sense in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://overcomeblindspots.com/archives/60</link>
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		<title>When Mr. Left Goes to the Store, Should You Always Subtract?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, research with children revealed that many could be tricked into giving the wrong answer to an arithmetic story problem, problems like: &#8220;You are buying 6 pencils for 36 cents. How much did each pencil cost?&#8221; Researchers found that some students would subtract if the word &#8220;left&#8221; appeared anywhere in the story, even when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://overcomeblindspots.com/archives/56</link>
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		<title>MIT Dean Resigns After Resume Scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 26, 2007 Marilee Jones, MIT&#8217;s Dean of Admissions and advocate of decreasing the pressure on high school students to create five-star resumes in order to be accepted by elite colleges and universities, resigned after admitting that she herself had lied in her own resume. Jones claimed to have degrees from Union College, Rensselaer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://overcomeblindspots.com/archives/55</link>
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		<title>A Marching Band of Delinquent Girls?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How could 42 &#8220;normally law-abiding&#8221; Connecticut high school girls think it was okay to steal so many items that their pile of goods was 50 feet long when confiscated by police? &#8220;I just thought it was a custom&#8221; explained one of the many students, all members of their school&#8217;s marching band, who were flabbergasted to [...]]]></description>
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