Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Statue that Didn't Look Right
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In September of 1983, an art dealer by the name of Gianfranco Becchina approached the __________ Museum in California. 3
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  Museum of Contemporary Art
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
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J. Paul Getty
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Santa Monica Museum of Art
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The kouros, the records stated, had been in the private collection of a Swiss physician named ______________ since the 1930's, and he in turn acquired it from a well-known Greek dealer name Roussos. 4
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Landenberger
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Lauffenberger
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Leuzinger
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Luthi
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Some years ago, a young couple came to the University of Washington to visit the laboratory of a psychologist named John Gottman. They were 19
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Bill and Susan
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Harry and Sally
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John and Jane
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None of the above
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Recently, a professor who works with Gottman named Sybil Carrere, who was playing around with some of the videotapes, trying to design a new study, discovered that if they looked at only __ minutes of a couple talking, they could still predict with fairly impressive accuracy who was going to get divorced and who was going to make it. The truth of a marriage can now be understood in a much shorter time than anyone can ever imagine. 23
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One way to understand what Gottman is saying about marriages is to use the analogy of what people in the world of Morse code call a 28
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In other words, patients don't file lawsuits because they've been harmed by shoddy medical care. Patients file lawsuits because they've been harmed by shoddy medical care. Patients file lawsuits because they've been harmed by shoddy medical care and something else. What is that something else? 42
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Its how they were treated, on a personal level, by their families.
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Its how they were treated, on a personal level, by their caretakers
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Its how they were treated, on a personal level, by their doctor.
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Its how they were treated, on a personal level, by their community.
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Which tennis play was almost accurately predicted by Vic Braden? 43
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Fault
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Double-Fault
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Triple-Fault
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The results from Aronson's and Steele's experiments are obviously quite disturbing. They suggest that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot and the way we think and act-and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment-are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize. 59
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On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as 62
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speed talking
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speed tagging
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speed dating
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None of the above
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Speed dating has become enormously popular around the world over the last few years, and its not hard to understand why. It’s the distillation of dating to a simple snap judgment. 64
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Chapter 2 - Theory of Thin Slices: How a Little Bit of Knowledge Goes a Long Way
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________ was perhaps the greatest hitter of all time, a man revered for his knowledge and insight into the art of hitting. One thing he always said was that he could look the ball on to the bat, that he could track it right to the point where it made contact 69
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Rafael Nadal
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Tommy Haas
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Ted Williams
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Andy Roddick
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Many years ago, the psychologist __________________ hung two ropes from the ceiling of a room that was filled with all kinds of different tools, objects and furniture. The ropes were far enough apart that if you held the end of one rope, you could get close enough to grab the other. 70
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Alfred Adler
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Norman R.F. Maier
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Albert Bandura
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Erik Erikson
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There is a second, equally valuable,leeson in the Maier experiment. His subjects were stumped. They were frustrated. They were sitting there for ten minutes, and no doubt many of them felt they were failing an important test, that they had been exposed as stupid. But they weren't stupid. Why not? 72
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Because everyone in that room had not one mind but three, and all the while their conscious mind was blocked, their unconscious was scanning the room, sifting through possibilities,processing every conceivable clue. And the instant it found the answer, it guided them-silently and surely-to the solution.
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Because everyone in that room had not one mind but four, and all the while their conscious mind was blocked, their unconscious was scanning the room, sifting through possibilities,processing every conceivable clue. And the instant it found the answer, it guided them-silently and surely-to the solution.
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Because everyone in that room had no mind, and all the while their conscious mind was blocked, their unconscious was scanning the room, sifting through possibilities,processing every conceivable clue. And the instant it found the answer, it guided them-silently and surely-to the solution.
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Because everyone in that room had not one mind but two, and all the while their conscious mind was blocked, their unconscious was scanning the room, sifting through possibilities,processing every conceivable clue. And the instant it found the answer, it guided them-silently and surely-to the solution.
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Chapter 3 - The Locked Door : The Secret Life of Snap Decisions
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Who was described as the Machiavelli of Ohio politics, the classic behind the scenes fixer, a shrewd and insightful judge of character or, at least, political opportunity? 74
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Harry Daugherty
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Calvin Coolidge
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Harlan Fiske Stone
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By early middle age, Harding's biographer ______________ writes, his "lusty black eyebrows contrasted with his steel gray hair to give the effect of force, his massive shoulders and bronzed complexion gave the effect of health." 76
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Albert Baumhart
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John Berry
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Francis Russell
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Edward Grimes
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When psychologists administer the IAT, the usually don't use paper and pencil. Most of the time, they do it on a _____________. 83
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computer
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pen and paper
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recorded dictation
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none of the above
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The advantage of doing IAT on a computer is that the responses are measurable down to the millisecond, and those measurements are used in assigning the test taker's score. 83
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Our attitudes towards things like race or gender operate on two levels. First of all, we have our conscious attitudes. That is what we chose to believe. These are our stated values, which we use to direct our behavior deliberately. 87
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What does the IAT measure? 87
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It measures our initial level of attitude, our racial attitude on an unconscious level- the immediate, automatic associations that tumble out before we've even had time to think. We don't deliberately choose our unconscious attitudes.
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It measures our second level of attitude, our racial attitude on an unconscious level- the immediate, automatic associations that tumble out before we've even had time to think. We deliberately choose our unconscious attitudes.
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It measures our second level of attitude, our racial attitude on an unconscious level- the immediate, automatic associations that tumble out before we've even had time to think. We don't deliberately choose our unconscious attitudes.
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It measures our spiritual level of attitude, our racial attitude on an unconscious level- the immediate, automatic associations that tumble out before we've even had time to think. We don't deliberately choose our unconscious attitudes.
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The disturbing thing about IAT testing is that it shows that our unconscious attitudes may be utterly incompatible with our stated conscious values. 88
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The sales director of the Flemington Nissan dealership in the central New Jersey town of Flemington is a man called _____________. 92
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Bob Golomb
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Ian Ayres
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Warren Harding
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None of the above
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In the car selling business, if you can convince someone to pay the sticker price ( the price on the window of a car in a showroom), and if you can talk them into the full premium package, with the leather seats and the sound system and the aluminum wheels, you make as much in commission off that gullible customer as you might from half a dozen or so customers who are prepared to drive a hard bargain. If you are a salesman, there is a tremendous temptation to try to spot the sucker. 96
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Car salesmen have a particular word to describe to customers who pay the ticket price. They're called a 97
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lay up
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downplay
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lay-down
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play down
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Chapter 4 - The Warren Harding Error: Why We Fall for Tall, Dark , and Handsome Men
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Paul Van Riper is tall and lean with gleaming bald dome and wire rimmed glasses. He walks with his shoulders square and a has a gruff, commanding voice. His friends call him ___. 102
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According to the Millennium challenge scenario, Paul Van Riper would play the ______________. 105
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soldier
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rogue commander
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the good general
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From his own experiences in Vietnam and his reading of the German military theorist ___________, Van Riper became convinced that war was inherently unpredictable and messy and non-linear. 109
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Berthold Breech
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Jacob Friedrich
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Carl von Clausewitz
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Alb retch Durer
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Millennium Challenge was a battle between two perfectly opposed military philosophies. Blue team had their databases and matrixes and methodologies for systematically understanding the intentions ad capabilities of the enemy. Red team 112
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was commanded by a man who looked at a long haired, unkempt, seat of the pants commodities trader yelling and pushing and making a thousand instant decisions an hour and saw in him a business partner.
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was commanded by a man who looked at a long haired, unkempt, seat of the pants commodities trader yelling and pushing and making a thousand instant decisions an hour and saw in him a best friend.
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was commanded by a man who looked at a long haired, unkempt, seat of the pants commodities trader yelling and pushing and making a thousand instant decisions an hour and saw in him a pushover
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was commanded by a man who looked at a long haired, unkempt, seat of the pants commodities trader yelling and pushing and making a thousand instant decisions an hour and saw in him a soul mate.
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Paul Van Ripper's Red Team did not come out on top in that moment in the Gulf because they were smarter or luckier at that moment than their counterparts over at Blue Team. How good people's decisions are under the fast moving ,high stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal. 117
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With a logic problem, asking people to explain themselves doesn't impair their ability to come up with answers. In some cases, in fact, it may help. But problems that require a flash of insight operate by different rules. 125
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The Cook County Hospital inspired which television series? 129
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ER
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St. Elmo's Fire
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Nip Tuck
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The Doctors
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Cook County Hospital is located at ___________________. 130
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Cincinnati
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California
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Chicago
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Canada
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Ironically, a big chunk of the funding for Goldman's initial research had not come from the medical community itself but from the ____. 138
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air force
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army
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navy
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A key point in explaining the breakdown of Blue Team that day in the Gulf-that extra information is useless. It's harmful. It confuses the issues. What's screws up doctors when they are trying to predict heart attacks is that they take too much information into account. 141
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The problem of too much information also comes up in studies of why doctors sometimes make the mistake of missing a heart attack entirely-of failing to recognize when someone is on the brink of or in the midst of a major cardiac complication. 141
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What Reilly and his team at Cook County were trying to do, in short, was provide some structure for the spontaneity of the ER. The algorithm is a rule that protects the doctors from being swamped with too much information--the same way that the rule of agreement protects improve actors when they get up on stage. 143
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Who did the research on speed dating? 146
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Maria Agnesi
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Virginia Apgar
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Sheena Iyengar
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Anna Comnena
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Chapter 5 - Paul Van Riper's Big Victory: Creating Structure for Spontaneity
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Who was the co-president of Atlantic Records where Kenna's CD demo landed? 153
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Craig Kallman
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Doug Morris
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Tommy Motola
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Who is the manager of U2? 154
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Adam Clayton
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Paul McGuinness
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Larry Mullen
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Edge
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___________, a California based firm , sent Kenna's CD to twelve hundred people preselected by age, gender, and ethnicity. They then called them up three days later and interviewed as many as they could about wthat they thought of Kenna's music on a scale of 0 to 4. 156
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Talent Research
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Star Research
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Music Research
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In Behind the Oval Office, his memoir of his years as a political pollster, Dick Morris writes about going to Arkansas in 1977 to meet with the state's thirty one year old attorney general, an ambitious young man by the name of ____________. 157
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George Bush
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Ronald Reagan
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Bill Clinton
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To counter the Pepsi Challenge, Coke launched ________. 161
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Coke Challenge
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Goodbye Pepsi
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Hello Coke
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New Coke
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Dollard says, for instance, that one of the biases in a sip test is toward sweetness: " If you only test in a sip test, consumers will like the sweeter product. But when they have to drink the whole bottle or can, that sweetness can really get overpowering or cloying." 163
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On a study on goods found in the supermarket, the general rule is, the closer the consumers get to the food itself, the more consumers are likely to be conservative. 168
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The problem with market research is that often it is simply too blunt an instrument to pick up this distinction between the bad and the merely different. 178
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One bright summer day, the author had lunch with two women who run a company in New Jersey called _________________. 180
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Sensual Spectrum
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Stimuli Spectrum
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Sensory Spectrum
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Schooled once did an experiment with Timothy Wilson. It involved ___________. 184
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strawberry jam
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pineapple jam
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guava jam
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orange marmalade
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Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. But with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret-- and decode--what lies behind our snap judgments and first impressions. 187
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When a tester gives you three glasses, two of which are filled with one of the Colas and the third with the other. In the beverage business, this is called a 190
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square test
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circle test
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triangle test
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rectangle test
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Chapter 6 - Keena's Dilemma:The Right - and Wrong-Way to Ask People What They Want
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_____________, a special division of the New York Police Department, dedicated to patrolling crime "hot spots" in the city's poorest neighborhoods. 194
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Corner Crime Unit
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Street Crime Unit
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Suburb Crime Unit
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How many facial movements did Ekman and Friesen outlined on facial muscles? 205
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Ekman and Friesen ultimately assembled all the facial movement combinations-- and the rules for reading and interpreting them--into the 208
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Facial Action Coding System, or FACS.
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Facial Auditory Coding System, or FACS.
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Facial Action Contemporary System, or FACS.
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Factual Action Coding System, or FACS.
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When Mary's doctor asked her about her plans for the future, a look of utter despair flashed across her face so quickly that it was almost imperceptible. Ekman calls that kind of fleeting look a _____________, which is a very particular and critical kind of facial expression. 213
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macro expression
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micro expression
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combination of A and B
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Whenever we experience a basic emotion, that emotion is automatically expressed by the muscles of the face. That response may linger on the face for just a fraction of a second or to be detectable only if electrical sensors are attached to the face. But it's always there. 214
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Our voluntary expressive system is the way we intentionally signal our emotions. But our involuntary expressive system is in many ways even more important: it is the way we have been equipped by evolution to signal our authentic feelings. 215
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The classic model for understanding what it means to lose the ability to mind read is the condition of _________. 219
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cerebral palsy
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down's syndrome
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autism
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turette's disorder
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Gavin de Becker in his book the Gift of Fear says that the central fact in protection is the amount of white space. He defined white space as 235
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the distance between the target and any potential assailant.
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the distance between the target and any assailant.
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the distance between the target and a specific assailant.
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the distance between the decoy and any potential assailant.
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Chapter 7 - Seven Seconds in the Bronx: The Delicate Art of Mind Reading
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The world of classical music-particularly in its European home- was until very recently the preserve of ______. 253
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black mean
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Asians
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white men
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Hispanics
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Julie Landsman, who plays principal French horn for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, says that she's found herself distracted by the position of someone's ______. 256
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Why, for so many years, were conductors so oblivious to the corruption of snap judgments? 257
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Because we are often careful with our powers of rapid cognition. We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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Because we are often careless with our powers of slow cognition. We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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Because we are often careless with our powers of rapid cognition. We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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Because we are often careless with our powers of rapid cognition. We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we always appreciate their fragility.
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Landsman had played for the Met before as a substitute. Until they listened to her with their ears, however, they had no idea she was so good. When the screen created a pure Blink moment, a small miracle happened, the kind of small miracle that is always possible when we take charge of the first two seconds: 259
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they saw her for what she was about to do
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they saw her for how she felt
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they saw her for who she truly was
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Chapter 8 - Listening with your Eyes: The Lessons of Blink
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Chapter 9 - Notes
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Chapter 10 - Acknowledgements
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