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Backhanded Compliments

April 19th, 2007

Those of us in experimental psychology often feel misunderstood. Witness the backhanded compliment paid to psychologists in an otherwise fascinating article by Bill Mckibben in the March issue of Mother Jones.
“Reversal of Fortune” is an article about the importance of creating more realistic models of human behavior in economics–about how too many material goods […]