Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property

Cultural norms, complex religious influences and friendly police officers make losing something no big deal. But does this tell the whole story about Japan’s relationship with honesty?

The Top 10 Psychology Books You Should Read

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Understand the world and make better decisions using concepts from psychology, philosophy, economics and other disciplines, delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday.

Pursuing the Psychological Building Blocks of Music - Behavioral Scientist

Humans are wired to produce and understand music, suggest researchers in an ambitious new study. Despite the evidence, not everyone is likely to be convinced.

Why Washing Machines Are Learning to Play the Harp

Appliance makers believe more and better chimes, alerts, and jingles make for happier customers. Are they right?

The Nine Primary Tactics Used to Influence Others

The Primary Tactics Used to Influence Others —The number one thing to understand about influence is that people make decisions for their reasons, not yours.

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“Get them to say no”: Expert lessons in influence from the most persuasive professions on earth

The job of a good storyteller, marketer, or writer is to pull one over on you. To make you believe what they’re saying, no matter how farfetched it might be.

The generation effect

Do you feel like you can remember things better when you actively engage with the information and create your own version of it? That’s called the Generation Effect. In a research paper published in 1978 in the Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, scientists described…

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Biases and Blunders

If we really want to understand how we can nudge people into making better choices, it’s important to understand why they often make such poor ones.

Social Proof Is the Most Important Factor in Selling

If I had to choose a single factor that is crucial to an online store’s success, it would be social proof. The term is often misunderstood. It doesn’t

How To Pay Attention

20 Ways To Win The War Against Seeing

Habits, Obstacles, and Media Manipulation with Ryan Holiday

This week I chat with Ryan Holiday, an author and hacker, about habits, obstacles, and media manipulation.

Persuasion Triggers In Web Design — Smashing Magazine

How do you make decisions? If you're like most people, you'll probably answer that you pride yourself on weighing the pros and cons of a situation carefully and then make a decision based on logic. You know that other people have weak personalities and are easily swayed by their…

The Invention of Sliced Bread - Priceonomics

Sliced bread: the greatest thing since...sliced bread.

Brands Are Behaving Like Organized Religions

But should they?

A List Of 8 Core Values I Live By

Our values matter not because of how we are perceived, but because of how they define our character and set us apart from all others.

The Elephant in the Brain — a new book by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson

Why Do We Gesture When We Talk?

Gesture researchers have spent the past 40 years uncovering how movements (like a cupped hand rotating in space or a finger tracing a path through the air) are intimately tied to speech.

Understand the 4 Components of Influence

The subtle signals you have to master.

Why a Surprise Drop Can Be a Great Marketing Ploy for Brands

Hulu and Beyoncé have pioneered a new way to generate hype.

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Why too much evidence can be a bad thing

(Phys.org)—Under ancient Jewish law, if a suspect on trial was unanimously found guilty by all judges, then the suspect was acquitted. This reasoning sounds counterintuitive, but the legislators of ...

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This Is How To Stop Checking Your Phone: 5 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

You want the good things technology brings. You also want to know how to stop checking your phone so much. Here's what a behavior expert says is the answer.

7 Persuasion Tips For More Influence and Better Engagement - The Secret Product Manager Handbook

Use these 7 persuasion tips to instantly make your presentations, roadmaps, marketing and sales materials more compelling, engaging, and influential.

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Ten Techniques To (Quickly) Build Trust With Anyone

Ten techniques for building quick trust and rapport with anyone from the FBI’s Counterintelligence training program.

A Dozen Lessons about Business from Anthony Bourdain

“The absolute certainty that nobody was going to care about, read or buy Kitchen Confidential was what allowed me to write it. I didn’t have to think about what people expected. I didn’t car…

How to Get an MBA from Eminem? - James Altucher

In 2002 I was driving to a hedge fund manager’s house to hopefully raise money from him. I was two hours late. This was pre-GPS and I had no cell phone. I was totally lost. If you’ve never driven around Connecticut you need to know one thing: all the roads are parallel and they…

The Psychology of the Self-Appointed Genius - Priceonomics

How ignorance and a little ego threat can make us ridiculously over-confident.

How to Respond to a Bullshit Apology

In the span of five days, Saturday Night Live hired and fired comedian Shane Gillis after his use of sexist, homophobic, racist language— including

Tap into the power to persuade by using these 6 techniques of clear and compelling speech

Politicians and other public figures deploy particular rhetorical devices to communicate their ideas and to convince people, and it’s time that we all learned how to use them, says speechwriter Sim…

The Science of Snobbery: How We're Duped Into Thinking Fancy Things Are Better

Wine snobs, string quartets, and the limits of intuition

How to Build a New Habit: This is Your Strategy Guide

Understanding how to build new habits is essential for making progress. Read this guide right now to learn 5 easy, powerful strategies for changing habits.

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Every product organization starts with the intention of building the most important features desired by the most customers and to differentiate its offerings from the competition. Yet as …

Double Crux — A Strategy for Resolving Disagreement

(Cross posted to LessWrong)

The Key to Giving and Receiving Negative Feedback

It doesn’t have to be painful.

How to Persuade Anyone of Anything in Ten Seconds - James Altucher

You’re on the most important elevator ride of your life. You have ten seconds to pitch- the classic “elevator pitch”. Love or Hate. Money or Despair. And you may never get this chance again. As PM Dawn says, “I feel for you. I really do.” There are books about this. But don’t…

GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

The Ultimate Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization

Follow this guide for everything you need to know about conversion rate optimization, how it works, and how to use it.

The Psychology of a Fanboy: Why You Keep Buying the Same Stuff

None of us want to admit it, but chances are we're all fanboys of something. Whether it's a particular brand of software, gadget, or anything else, we

The tricks to make yourself effortlessly charming

From the first moment you walk into a room people are making judgements about how much they like you. Fortunately, there are ways to improve your chances

The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders

The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership explores the classical figures to determine the ten crucial axioms of leadership. Rule 1. Know Theyself. Rule 2 ...

Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively

How to turn arguments from vicious battles into productive dialogues.

Cultural Coaching: Knowing When to Shut Up

The American tendency to fill up quiet space is not a good strategy with the Chinese.

Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can't Last Forever - 99% Invisible

The world is full of icons that warn us to be afraid — to stay away from this or not do that. And many of these are easy to understand because they represent something recognizable, like a fire, or a person slipping on a wet floor. But some concepts are hard to communicate…

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How to Negotiate with a Liar

People, including negotiators, lie every day, so when you’re trying to make a deal, it’s important to defend against deception. The best strategy, says the author, is to focus not on detecting lies but on preventing them. She outlines five tactics that research has shown to be…