Category: Practical Wisdom
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De auto, de geit en de wiskunde
driedeuren.nl www.nieuwezijds.nl/boek/de-auto-de-geit-en-de-wiskunde Het is een klassiek wiskunderaadsel: het driedeurenprobleem. Je mag in een spelshow kiezen tussen drie deuren. Achter ĂŠĂŠn deur staat een auto die je graag wil winnen, achter de andere twee een geit. Zodra je een deur kiest, maakt de presentator een van de twee andere open: daar staat een geit. En dan…
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Making sense of wickedness
“Making sense of wickedness: Directionality heuristics for challenge-led innovation policy” Highlights Sense-making helps to understand how policymakers view and tackle wicked problems. Directionality heuristics are mental shortcuts used to interpret and address problems. Different degrees of wickedness call for different directionality heuristics. Nescience creates additional directionality challenges for challenge-led policies. This article contributes to the…
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In de wolk of op de grond? – Is AI dan toch intelligent?
Ik was aangenaam verrast met de volgende uitspraak en de verduidelijking die ze me aanreikte: “Man with head in the clouds and feet on the ground, he very big man.”Niet echt een “quote” of gezegde, maar toch aangehaald om te verwijzen naar de groten der aarde. âEinstein was a giant. His head was in the…
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Top-down attention shifts event boundaries
“Top-down attention shifts behavioral and neural event boundaries in narratives with overlapping event scripts” ⢠Default mode regions represent schematic event scripts during narrative perception ⢠Attending to an event script impacts behavioral event segmentation and memory ⢠Neural dynamics in the mPFC reflect the event structure of an attended script Understanding and remembering the…
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Beyond Belief
“Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works” The remarkable story of the global movement championing the idea that evidence, not opinions, should guide our decisions. Published by Princeton University Press, April 2026. Today, more and more people around the globe are using scientific evidence to figure out what worksâin health, government and business as…
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Social Observations, Decisions, Explore/Exploit
“Observational learning of exploration-exploitation strategies in bandit tasks” In decision-making scenarios, individuals often face the challenge of balancing between exploring new options and exploiting known onesâa dynamic known as the exploration-exploitation trade-off. In such situations, people frequently have the opportunity to observe othersâ actions. Yet little is known about when, how, and from whom individuals…
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Affective State as a central component to environmental changes
“Considering affective state as a central component of the response of animals to environmental changes” Current environmental changes are often considered as negatively impacting the affective state of animals. Yet, the interplay betweenenvironmental conditions and affective state should rather be viewed as a reciprocal and dynamic relationship, as variation in affective state likely determines how…
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Wise Machines
“Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition” We examine the why and the how of building wise artificial intelligence. Wisdom helps humans navigate intractable problems through object-level strategies (for managing problems) and metacognitive strategies (for managing object-level strategies). Wise metacognition includes strategies such as intellectual humility, perspective-taking, and context adaptability. Wise artificial…
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Physical activity types, variety, and mortality
“Physical activity types, variety, and mortality: results from two prospective cohort studies” ” –> Walking is a great activity, especially when combined đ “ During 2â431â318 person years of follow-up, 38â847 deaths were recorded, with 9901 from cardiovascular disease, 10â719 from cancer, and 3159 from respiratory disease. Total physical activity and most individual physical activities,…
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Was I fooled or wasn’t I?
“What Is the Name of This Book?-The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles, by Raymond M. Smullyan” My introduction to logic was at the age of six. It happened this way: On April 1, 1925, I was sick in bed with grippe, or f lu, or something. In the morning my brother Emile (ten…
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Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking
“Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking” We tested intuitive vs. deliberate responding using a two-response paradigm. Correct creative answers often emerged intuitively under load and time pressure. Intuitive solutions rely on fast associative processes in semantic memory. Intuition may play a greater role in creativity than previously assumed. Convergent thinking, the ability…
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The âmade-up mindâ.
“The âmade-up mindâ. Deriving new hypotheses on delusions from general psychological models of belief maintenance” Highlights Delusions may be maintained by changed external input and prediction error processing. Perceived belief utility and high accordance with related beliefs favor maintenance. Systematized delusions may result from deriving auxiliary hypotheses or latent causes. How well conflicting evidence is…
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Nature on the balance sheet …
“Putting nature on the balance sheet: how to account for the ecological costs of our actions” Economists should consider forests and wetlands as well as factories and farms. A book review of “On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us“, Partha Dasgupta (2025) On Natural Capital recaps the roaring economic advances of the past 75…
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Decisions: Studying and Supporting
“Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices“ A lively, authoritative insiderâs account of how we make decisions and how decision-making research has developed over the last half century. Decisions describes the evolution of decision science (also called behavioral decision research and related to behavioral economics) through its application to challenging personal and public policy decisions,…
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Critical Thinking for MedicineâMoving Beyond Illness Scripts
“Critical Thinking for 21st-CenturyMedicineâMoving Beyond Illness Scripts” Clinical Reasoning for 21st-Century Medicine: Optimal clinical reasoning will involve an appropriate balance betweenillness scripts and pathophysiological reasoning. In our view, medical education has historically overemphasized the formerâto which learners are predisposed even without explicit teachingâ and underemphasized the latter. The risks of this historical approach will become…
