Michele Pasin / Quotes

Blowing off steam increases aggression

It’s a myth that releasing emotions makes everything better (that blowing your top will defuse your anger, for example). “Better out than in,” the saying…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #emotions #myth #behavior

Temperament versus personality

Parents have known for centuries that babies come to this world with an inborn temperament. Scientist Jerome Kagan, who studied Baby 19, was the first to…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #personality #babies #emotions #behavior

Career change: move forward not away

We often leave a job or situation because we are unhappy about something: an overbearing manager, irritating colleagues, ridiculous hours. When we make a…

Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional #beliefs #thought #jobs #situation #managers

Open access for machines as well as humans

Overall, we believe this situation demonstrates the need for supporting Open Access to research publications not only for humans to read, but also for…

A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution #access #humans #need #publications #situation

A quick trick instead of the truth

more polarization the better. In the environment in which they evolved, this trick was a useful guide to behavior and allowed them to avoid constructing a…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #perception #evolution #truth #behavior

Algorithms herd more than human investors

Today, the stock market is almost completely automated. Complex algorithms execute trades in milliseconds, making decisions involving billions of dollars…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #algorithm #finance #behavior #risk