154 ‘You’ve Lost Your Tuning Form’ – Don't Worry I Have the Solution…

God: Do I have your attention?

Religion is commonly defined as a set of rules, developed as part of a culture. Here we provide evidence that practice in following these rules systematically changes the way people attend to visual stimuli, as indicated by the individual sizes of the global precedence effect (better performance to global than to local features). We show that this effect is significantly reduced in Calvinism, a...

Some Have a Talent for Bargaining and Some Dont

In Bargaining Theory players di¤er from one another in either their valuation for the negotiated object and/or their time preferences. We suggest a model that incorporates "bargaining ability" as another source for heterogeneity across players. This bargaining ability for the buyer determines how many o¤ers he will be able to turn down before he walks away. For the seller this ability determine...

Tuning your writing

In the Writer’s Craft section we offer simple tips to improve your writing in one of three areas: Energy, Clarity and Persuasiveness. Each entry focuses on a key writing feature or strategy, illustrates how it commonly goes wrong, teaches the grammatical underpinnings necessary to understand it and offers suggestions to wield it effectively. We encourage readers to share comments on or suggesti...

Can I have a copy of your slides?

The lecture is fi nished, the lights come up, and it is time for questions from the audience. An attendee moves to the microphone in the aisle and says, “Your slides are superb! How can I get a copy so I can use them in the lectures that I present?” Colleagues of mine tell me that the same thing has happened to them. In some cases, one or two particular slides are sought. In others, attendees a...

Have Americans Lost Their Minds?