Your decisions are based on your mood.
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Did you know that you are bad at making decisions because according to science, your decisions are based on your mood?
I was overwrought with grief when I heard this (although I had also a few minutes earlier stubbed my toe). However I got over it and decided it was time to take the new york times interactive insight test.
You see, scientists have found indications that your ability to jump to intuitive answers — what they term the “Aha!” moment — may be affected by your mood. After watching a humorous video, brain imaging and test results of subjects suggested that a positive mood prepares the brain’s insight.
Anyway, I won't bore you with my test results. Why not take the test and see.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/07/science/20101207-puzzle-interactive.html
I was overwrought with grief when I heard this (although I had also a few minutes earlier stubbed my toe). However I got over it and decided it was time to take the new york times interactive insight test.
You see, scientists have found indications that your ability to jump to intuitive answers — what they term the “Aha!” moment — may be affected by your mood. After watching a humorous video, brain imaging and test results of subjects suggested that a positive mood prepares the brain’s insight.
Anyway, I won't bore you with my test results. Why not take the test and see.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/07/science/20101207-puzzle-interactive.html
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I got 6 on both of them
Ditto. And the cats annoyed me a bit.
i got 1 and 3.
I couldnt tell the objects until they were very obvious. And even then, I struggled to name them correctly. taco, for example i got wrong a few times till i hit on the right word. ok, so Im a bit clueless about fajitas and tacos.
Me too but I suspect that's the Irn bru on the keyboard. Sticky.
I also got 6 and 6
I thought that that was pretty obvious ?
When you're angry, it's a given you're going to say (or do) stupid things.
feel the same cors exhausted tonight!
Yes but there's a test you see..
You're obviously not excited by tests on the internets. Hooray for tests.
after viewing positive i got 10 compared to 6.1
wat do?
Lol ! - sorry
After viewing positive video - 15.