Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-23-2009

[andrewducker]

• Decision time
  Nice article on the balance between reason and emotion. Favourite quote "Pure reason is a disease."
  (tags: psychology emotion logic)
• The Eligible Bachelor Paradox
  The discussion is _fascinating_. Everything from wrongheaded misanthropy to mathematical discussion. I love Hacker News.
  (tags: psychology relationships mathematics)

Comments

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, there seem to be an about equal number of male and female groups of That Age, each complaining that single examples of the other are impossible to find.

[andrewducker]

I'd love to see some stats on it.

Did you see the 37% rule in the comments?

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Me too - there are bugger-all useful stats on the subject.

37% rule - interesting. I'd not heard that one. Hmm...

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

re: decision making read up on cognitive continuum theory.

See also the following books cos they is fascinating...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/1905177216/ref=pd_ys_iyr2 (Cognitive dissonance)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Social-Judgement-Theory-Thinking-Reasoning/dp/0863779514/ref=pd_ys_iyr150 (social judgement theory)

I has papers too

[andrewducker]

I've added the first one to my wish list!