Monthly Archives: December 2013

Recommended: The riddle of experience vs. memory

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There are a series of experiments that show that your memory of an event is colored more by the experience at the end of the event. This leads to some fascinating contradictions between what you should want from a rational perspective and what you actually want. The speaker is a Nobel-Prize winning Economist who has developed much of the research in behavioral economics. Continue reading