The renowned American poet TS Elliot once said: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”That raises questions about the psychology of people who tackle extremes. What drives a person to want to take risks and challenge themselves in some of the most dangerous ways possible?Research shows that some people need more than the normal dose of life’s excitement, and to achieve this, they seek out high-risk activities. According to experts, brain chemistry plays a significant role when it comes to risk-seeking behaviour. Studies suggest that extreme athletes >>>

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When political science graduate student Mike Toje worked at the Shop ‘n Save butcher shop in Edwardsville, Illinois, he obsessively organized the refrigerated packages in neat lines placing the newest meats in the back and the oldest in the front. >>>

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Charlie Munger (Trades, Portfolio) has often recommended "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini as one of the must-read books in order to get a grasp on the most important psychological factors that affect us while making decisions. As I was reading through it, some of the key components of crowd-thinking and investing popped into my mind. What is Social Proof? "First, we seem to assume that if a lot of people are doing the same thing, they must know something we don't. Especially when we are uncertain, we are willing to place an enormous amount of trust in the collective >>>

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The biggest threat to network security is company employees and firms need to adapt management structures to deal with leaderless environments says a leader in sphere of what is now known as cyber-psychology. Ciarán McMahon, Research Development Co-ordinator of Ireland’s Cyber-Psychology Research Centre, warned delegates at the (ISC) 2 security conference in Munich that people had become a wild card in organizations, which were operating at a disadvantage given that the fundamental principles of online working were leaving open the prospect of creating vulnerabilities. That is, said McMahon, >>>

ITHACA, N.Y. - When all else is equal between highly qualified candidates for entry-level faculty positions, professors in academic science overwhelmingly prefer women over men, Cornell researchers previously found in national experiments. But would this pro-female bias be strong enough to elevate slightly less impressive women above more accomplished male candidates? In their follow-up study, Cornell social scientists Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams found that women's hiring edge disappeared when pitted against slightly more accomplished men for faculty positions in engineering, economics, >>>

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