Fourteen months after their investigation of the kouros began, they agreed to purchase the statue. Initially the conclusion of months long research was that the Getty kouros was in the style of the Anavyssos kouros.
Marriage and Morse Code
The Germans, of course, broadcast in code, so - at least in the early part of the war - the British could not understand what was being said. West continues: “The interceptors mastered the transmission characteristics of the German radio operators so well that they could literally track them all over Europe—wherever they were.
The Importance of Contempt
It's Oscar, which means that yes, his unit is now definitely outside of Tobruk." An operator's fist is steady. It's scanning the situation in front of us and discarding all the irrelevant while focusing on what really matters. means something.
The Secrets of the Bedroom
If you can measure contempt, suddenly you don't need to know every detail of the couple's relationship. But on the remaining three characteristics of the Big Five, the strangers with the clipboards came out on top.
Listening to Doctors
It wasn't until they saw the tape that they realized they were wrong in what they were communicating.” The only thing they used for their prediction was their analysis of the surgeon's tone of voice.
The Power of the Glance
If the voice sounded less dominant and more concerned, the surgeon was usually in the non-sued group. Hardly scientific descriptions of how he knew he was in the presence of something rigged or fake.
Primed for Action
The other half of the students were asked to think about football hooligans first. It's like a drug addiction,” said Antoine Bechara, one of the researchers on the Iowa team.
The Storytelling Problem
Another is to take a third length, such as an extension cord, and tie it to the end of one of the ropes so that it is long enough to reach the other rope. His delight in the black boot whip's attention reflected a consciousness of unusual clothes in a small-town man.
The Dark Side of Thin-Slicing
"From the time they met, Daugherty carried the idea that Harding would make a 'great president,'" Sullivan writes. Gathered in the smoky back rooms of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel in the early hours of the morning, Republican Party bosses raised their hands and asked if there wasn't a candidate they could all agree on.
Blink in Black and White
When you see a black face, press e and place it in the left category. When you see a white face, press i and place it in the right category.
Taking Care of the Customer
You can't prejudge people in this business,” he said over and over when we met, and every time he used that phrase, his face took on a look of utter conviction. We seal our deal with a handshake, and he hands me a hundred dollar bill and says, 'Bring it out to my farm.' We don't even have to write down the order. The secret of Golomb's success is that he decided to fight the Warren Harding mistake.
Spotting the Sucker
What if, for whatever reason—experience, car sales lore, what they've heard from other salesmen—they have a strong automatic association between lates and women and minorities. They quietly picked up the most immediate and obvious fact about Ayres' car buyers—their gender and their color—and stuck to that judgment, even in the face of all kinds of new and conflicting evidence. In the case of the car salesmen, their decision to quote an outrageously high price to women and blacks alienated people who would otherwise have been able to buy a car.
Think About Dr. King
The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. He was always out on the course or by his bunker, figuring out what to do next. The Pentagon was in the earliest planning stages for a war game they were calling the Millennium Challenge '02.
One Morning in the Gulf
In the early 1990s, when Van Riper was principal of Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, he befriended a man named Gary Klein. On the opening day of the war game, the Blue Team sent tens of thousands of troops into the Persian Gulf. When the Red Team's surprise attack was over, sixteen American ships lay at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
The Structure of Spontaneity
At that moment in the Gulf, the Red Team's power of quick perception was intact—the Blue Team was not. Paul Van Riper's Red Team didn't best the Gulf at that moment because they were smarter or luckier than their Blue Team opponents at that moment. If you can create the right framework, it suddenly becomes much easier to engage in the flowing, light, relaxed dialogue that makes for good improvisational theatre.
The Perils of Introspection
It's the same kind of paralysis through analysis that you find in sports contexts, says Schooler. The fire was at the back of a one-story house in a residential area, in the kitchen. The fire did not respond to being sprayed in the kitchen because it was not centered in the kitchen.
A Crisis in the ER
He took Goldman's algorithm, presented it to the Cook County ED physicians and the Department of Medicine physicians, and announced that he was organizing a baking contest. Data was collected for two years and in the end the result was not even close. In 2001, Cook County Hospital became one of the first medical institutions in the country to devote full time to the Goldman algorithm for chest pain, and when you walk into the Cook County ER, you see a copy of the heart attack. decision tree on the wall.
When Less Is More
In the first phase of the experiment, he only gave them basic information about Kidd. Finally, he gave them a detailed account of Kidd's time in the army and his later activities. If you get too caught up in the production of information, you drown in the data.”.
Millennium Challenge, Part Two
For a day and a half after Red Team's surprise attack on Blue Team in the Persian Gulf, an uncomfortable silence fell over the JFCOM facility. Through a friend from high school, he was lucky enough to get to know some people in the music business. They hear one of his songs and for a moment they think, Wow.
A Second Look at First Impressions
McGuinness said, pointing to Kenna, "He's going to change the world." That was his instinct, and the manager of a band like U2 is a man who knows music. But the people whose world Kenna was supposed to change, it seemed, no longer agreed, and when the results of all the consumer research came in, Kenna's once-promising career came to a sudden halt. To get on the radio there had to be hard evidence that the public liked him – and that evidence just wasn't there.
Pepsi’s Challenge
The Blind Leading the Blind
It's a package." Rhea pulled out a picture of two brandy bottles as they appeared in those days. On the Aeron, the seat and back of the chair moved independently through a complicated mechanism. In other words, All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show was the television equivalent of the Aeron chair.
The Gift of Expertise
He continued to pull on something in his pocket, and now he began to lift the black object in the direction of the officers. He was on the left side of the lobby and just flew down that step. He's in the back of the lobby, back, towards the back wall, where that inner door is.
Three Fatal Mistakes
They're subtle and complex and surprisingly common, and what happened on Wheeler Avenue is a powerful example of how mind reading works—and how it sometimes goes horribly wrong.
The Theory of Mind Reading
It's the muscle that pulls them down." He shook his head and looked at me again. I was watching his facial expressions and I said to my wife, 'That's Peck's bad boy,'” Ekman said. I could teach him how not to do that in two to three hours.' And he said, 'Well, we can't risk it because he's known to be seeing an expert to lie.'” Ekman's voice trailed off.
The Naked Face
Whenever we experience a basic emotion, that emotion is automatically expressed by the muscles of the face. You've probably had an experience where someone commented on your facial expression and you didn't know you were making it," says Ekman. It's very fast.” Ekman stopped the tape and played it again, staring at the screen.
A Man, a Woman, and a Light Switch
You have to read the mind of the signifier and, of course, people with autism cannot read minds. At another critical moment in the film, when, in fact, George and Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) are locked in a passionate embrace, Peter doesn't look into the eyes of the kissing couple - which you or I would - but the light switch in the wall behind them. When the normal participants looked at the chair, however, they used an entirely different and less powerful part of the brain—the inferior temporal gyrus—which is usually reserved for objects.
Arguing with a Dog
But because he lacks a very basic skill - the ability to read minds - he can be presented with that scene in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. It opened a hole and the guy's head snapped back and he said, "Oh," like, "Oh, you got me." He kept turning the gun on me and I fired my second round. In the first place, the officer seems to be describing something that is quite impossible.
Running Out of White Space
Listen to de Becker describe the assassination attempt a few years ago on the president of South Korea: “The assassin gets up and shoots himself in the leg. He says, 'I'll wait for the other officers to arrive.' It works more friendly. Why can't a policeman stand and talk to me face to face like a normal person.
Tragedy on Wheeler Avenue
The boss rushes over to Diallo, looks at the ground, and yells, "Where's the goddamn gun?" and then runs up the street towards Westchester Avenue, because the screaming and shooting has made him lose his way where he is. After leaving the audition room, Philharmonic music director Sergiu Celibidache exclaimed, "That's who we want!" The remaining seventeen players, who waited their turn to audition, were sent home. In its letter, the orchestra argued: “The prosecution does not possess the necessary physical strength to be leader of the trombone section.” Conant was sent to the Gautinger Lung Clinic for extensive testing.
A Revolution in Classical Music
Julie Landsman, who plays principal French horn for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, says she has found herself confused by the position of someone's mouth. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way your eyes will not influence your judgment. There is only one way to make an instant judgment about Sylvia Alimena, and that is from behind the screen.
A Small Miracle
On the Trivial Pursuit study, see Ap Dijksterhuis and Ad van Knippenberg, “The Relation Between Perception and Behavior, or How to Win a Game of Trivial Pursuit,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74, No. Cable, “The Effect of physical height on workplace success and income: preliminary test of a theoretical model,” Journal of Applied Psychology 89, no. Wagner, “The impact of patrol personnel on police and civilian injuries and dispositions,” Journal of Criminal Justice.
