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    Is Your Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Is Your Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Shakespeare quotes “there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.” These are words of wisdom‚ as Shakespeare had discovered centuries ago that are still relative to the daily events that occur for the average twenty-first century adult. People often waste too much time thinking about small negative aspects of their day which creates added stress that is not necessary. Like over analyzing every detail of

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    Half Life

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    Determining Half-Life Emily Silvi March 4‚ 2013 Lab Partner: Meghan Imbalzano Presented to Madelyn Prosachik [pic] Simulated Determination of a Half-Life. |Years |Atoms Decayed |Atoms Remaining |Half-Life | |0 |0 |190 | | |1

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    Interracial Bias

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    of racial bias during interracial interaction. The study began off of the basis that individuals that have high levels of racial bias tend to regulate them selves when around others of another race. They often do this to make sure that their racial bias does not show. Individuals with low level of racial bias tended not to regulate themselves as much because they were more comfortable in their situation. Interestingly‚ researchers believed that individuals with high levels of racial bias were favored

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    Media Bias

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    without us even realizing it is media bias. We see it in the news. We see it on our favorite sitcoms. We read it every day in the paper. Yet‚ we really don’t recognize it when we hear it or see it. Media bias is evident in every aspect of the media‚ yet the problem is that we don’t even recognize it when it is right in front of our faces. The problem is not only that there is media bias present‚ but also that we can’t recognize it when we see it. Media bias is the tendency for the media to represent

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    How I Want to Live.

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    of the Year. Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons. PLOT: (SUMMARY) Meet Percy Jackson. He is twelve years old‚ and he decides to tell us the story of his past year. On the first day of summer‚ just after his sixth-grade year‚ Percy discovers that something is wrong with him. Or rather‚ something is right with him. He learns that he is a half-blood: half-human‚ half-god. He is taken to Camp Half-Blood in New York‚ a camp for kids just like him that

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    www.storymania.com Storymania Logo Essays You Don’t Know What You’re Doing (Or Why You’re Still Fat) by Robert Levin People with perpetual obesity issues are playing a g... [804 words] Visual Mind by Wanderer Bass This is what I see and think during times of when I’m in a "feral" mode. [663 words] The Surge by Dylan Barbour About the surge [448 words] Talking In Circles by Jordan Holetzky Its not really an essay don’t know what to put it as.... doesn’t make sense just

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    Hindsight Bias

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    Hindsight bias: Hindsight bias is when you know something right after it happens and not while it is happening. Some people call it the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. This is where you watch a sports game and when the game is over‚ think to yourself that you knew they would loose‚ when in fact you were on the edge of your seat waiting to see how the game was going to end and if your team would win or not. (Myers‚ 2010‚ p.16.) I have had several instances where hindsight bias has

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    Familiarity Bias: The Potent Cognitive Bias The great oracle Wiki says Familiarity bias is a “rule of thumb” that people like you and I use when forming a judgement‚ decisions or beliefs – Sounds all highbrow and impressive but leaves you scratching your head‚ wondering at the meaning‚ doesn’t it? To make understanding easier‚ let’s begin with an example; You are working in a corporate office for years. You are stagnating in the job. You know that you can find a better job with your experience

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    Len Bias

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    That is why wanting to be a professional player for any sport is “unrealistic” for most people. You have to be a gifted player to make it to the pros. A first team All-American college basketball forward at the University of Maryland. That’s who Len Bias was. He was a humble player with extremely high expectations and a favorite of many because of his size‚ athleticism‚ and passion for the game of basketball. He had dreamt of becoming an NBA player ever since he was a little kid growing up in a road

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    Bias in Shopping

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    How do we buy toilet paper?” As I increasingly reflect on how individuals make decisions‚ I have found myself pondering about my own personal behaviour and what influences my decisions. It was in one of these occasions‚ that I experienced the subject for this essay. A short stroll to a local supermarket (any supermarket witnesses an enormous number of individual decisions) served both as material for a reflection and as an attempt to understand how consumers’ choices can be influenced. Cognitive

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