Stories by yamrzou

Omission Bias

One Sleepless Night Increases Dopamine in the Human Brain (2008)

The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias (2012)

Give It Up: A Strategy for Combating Hedonic Adaptation (2013)

Spending Your Pleasure Points (2018)

What Candy Crush Saga does to your brain (2014)

The origins of China's copycat culture

Building AGI Using Language Models (2020)

The Global Human Day: How Humans Around the World Spend Their Time

Why are we attracted to sad movies? [pdf]

Pre-Mortem

Engines of Sacrality: A Footnote on Randall Collins' Interaction Ritual Chains (2013)

Encountering Strangers in Public Places: Goffman and Civil Inattention (2011)

Adequate Learning vs Overlearning: How Many Repetitions Is Enough?

Think Twice Before Using Repetition

Latent Inhibition and Creativity

What even is the box? Inside the ADHD mind

Sociologist Erving Goffman saw magic in the mundane

How Not to Die (2007)

We Are What We Remember

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