![]() ![]() ![]() So the next time the number nine flashes across your screen, you know not to press that button.Įxcept that sometimes people press the button for the bad numbers, even when they should know better. Through trial and error you learn that four is a nice number and nine is not. If you press the button for a “good” number, you win points if you press for a “bad” number, you lose points and if you don’t press at all, nothing happens. You’re given a button, as if you were a game-show contestant, which you can press or not as each number appears. ![]() Twelve different numbers flash across a computer screen, one at a time, in no particular order. You’re there to play a game: the more points you get, the more money you win. Imagine that you’ve been invited to Newman’s lab to participate in one of his studies. One answer comes from an intriguing line of research conducted by the University of Wisconsin psychologist Joseph Newman. But what exactly is the mechanism by which buzz clouds good judgment? How did Janice Dorn’s client, Alan, dismiss the danger signs screaming that he might lose 70 percent of his life savings? What prompts some people to act as if FUD doesn’t exist?
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