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Study finds that people believe they’ll be happy in the future, even when they imagine the many bad things that could happen, because they discount the possibility that those bad things will actually occur. 
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How do you spend your time? And do you reminisce about the past, or plan for the future?
Consider thinking patterns of yourself and others with the following animation video.
Includes interesting perspectives on how to deal with other people. Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
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In his lively and readable new book, The Storytelling Animal, for example, Jonathan Gottschall argues that we live our entire lives in a web of story—not just when we're consciously taking in narratives from the news or the movies but whenever we dream, daydream or (if we happen to be children) play make-believe ("as automatic and insuppressible as dreams," Gottschall points out).
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Professor Yoav Ganzach of Tel Aviv University says that when intelligence and socioeconomic background are pitted directly against one another, intelligence is a more accurate predictor of future career success. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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Stanford's newly renovated Virtual Human Interaction Lab was specifically designed for psychological experimentation in virtual worlds, says Associate Professor of Communication Jeremy Bailenson. "We integrate three virtual senses in a way that's very psychologically persuasive -- sight, sound and touch." The state-of-the-art lab also offers a glimpse of the near future in household entertainment. "We're using this cutting-edge lab to try to think ahead by a few years to predict what household technology is going to be like and how that's going to affect people," Bailenson said.
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Why do people so often make decisions that their future selves regret? One possibility is that people have a fundamental misconception about their future selves. Time is a powerful force that transforms people’s preferences, reshapes their values, and alters their personalities, and we suspect that people generally underestimate the magnitude of those changes. In other words, people may believe that who they are today is pretty much who they will be tomorrow, despite the fact that it isn’t who they were yesterday. More: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2013/01/the-end-of-history-illusion.html
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A group of psychologists led by Harvard's Karl Spzunar have investigated our optimistic forecasting by testing people's memories of events that haven't actually happened. PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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Why we tend to predict rosy times ahead... A new study from the January issue of Psychological Science may explain why we are all so optimistic about what’s to come. The authors report that people tend to remember imagined future scenarios that are happy better than they recall the unhappy ones. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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The way people discuss the future varies from language to language. Some have a well-defined future tense, while others distinguish much between present and future. But does this point of grammar actually affect how we see the world?
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