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Will you remember to read this article later when you have time? The relationship between prospective memory and time management

Time management and memory processes include a variety of common concepts and goals, namely to monitor the time it takes to complete current tasks and remember later to complete intended activities. In the present study, we correlated scales that measure components of time management with those that measure prospective and retrospective memory. As expected, significant correlations indicate tha...

You Are What You Eat... Listen to, Watch, and Read

This article describes a data driven method for deriving the relationship between personality and media preferences. A qunatifiable representation of such a relationship can be leveraged for use in recommendation systems and ameliorate the “cold start” problem. Here, the data is comprised of an original collection of 1,316 Okcupid dating profiles. Of these profiles, 800 are labeled with one of ...

What Will You Sacrifice?

Gambling: What Are the Odds?

Many arguments against gambling have been made, and they generally center around the negative consequences that result from gambling, including greatly increased crime, the destruction of family and society, and the many problems that result from compulsive and pathological gamblers. Although these are serious issues, one that is seldom raised is people’s misunderstanding of the basic nature of...

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