Jonah Lehrer
Aug. 2, 2010
The Sawyer Effect
Tom Sawyer and the power of intrinsic motivation.
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Mar. 2, 2010
Explaining Insomnia
Jonah Lehrer on why we can’t sleep, an affliction that has me thrashing around every night: Because insomnia is triggered, at least in part, by anxiety about insomnia, the worst thing we can do is think about not being able to sleep; the diagnosis exacerbates the disease. And that’s why this frustrating condition will never [...]
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Oct. 19, 2009
This is your brain on e-books
Jonah Lehrer on the neuroscience of how our brains process the words we read and how that process will be affected by ebooks.
Tags: ebooks · Jonah Lehrer · Kindle
Jun. 15, 2009
The Science of Home-Field Advantage
Jonah Lehrer examines why the home team tends to win more often. The answer is more complex than you might think. Several years ago, an innovative study compared the performance of two NCAA basketball teams in the presence and absence of spectators. Because of a measles outbreak, the teams played 11 games while the schools [...]
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