Blink

just don’t think I’m smart enough to be here.’ ” The results from these experiments are, obviously, quite ...

Your unconscious, in this sense, was acting as a kind of mental valet. It was taking care of all the m ...

damage: I suggested two alternative dates, both in the coming month and just a few days apart from each ...

at no time — not even after they had figured the game out — did the patients adjust their strategy to ...

women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dat ...

daters would be notified of the other’s e-mail address within twenty-four hours. There was a murmur of anticipat ...

she said as she watched the couples nervously chatter. “Sometimes strange things happen. I’ll never forget, back ...

she asked. “He’s from Louisiana. I loved the accent. And I dropped my pen, just to see what he would do ...

What once seemed like the most transparent and pure of thin- slicing exercises turns into something qu ...

sincerity, intelligence, and ambition. In addition, at the end of every “date,” they rate the person they’ve j ...

answer that question really easily, and what they find when they compare what speed-daters say they ...

man? “I don’t know,” Iyengar said when I asked her that question. “Is the real me the one that I descr ...

found a single player who is consistent in knowing and explaining exactly what he does,” Braden says. “They ...

not moving it until long after impact. How can so many people be fooled? People are going to coaches and payin ...

history, and he could explain with utter confidence how to do it. But his explanation did not match his actions, ...

toward you. What Maier found is that most people figured out those three solutions pretty easily. But ...

Were these people lying? Were they ashamed to admit that they could solve the problem only after get ...

possible, and, as we’ll explore in the upcoming chapters of this book, doing so can have serious consequ ...

THREE The Warren Harding Error: Why We Fall For Tall, Dark, and Handsome Men Early one morning in 1899, in th ...

made an effect which in any male at any place would justify more than the term handsome — in late ...