How people sort themselves

• When we encounter unfamiliar information on a social network, we verify it in one of two ways. We either go through the burdensome process of countless claims and counter-claims to understand if it is true, or we rely on others by way of social proof.
• If we search for online informat...

There are two thinking systems, each with distinct characteristics.

• System 1, or intuition. We think in this way most of the time. We respond to the world in ways that we're not conscious of and don't control. System 1 operations are fast, effortless...

To compliment people is to choose to affect them and who they will become, along with their sense of self.

We don't realize the impact our compliments hold and studies have found that when we are complimented by the people we look up to or they say something to us that we resonate with, we...