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November 06, 2017

From The Economist:
[The] context of an economic choice matters. That, in turn, means that the way choices are framed, by firms or governments, can influence how people respond.

From Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (H/T: Kevin Lewis):
Compared to participants in the low-autonomy or autonomy-unrelated control conditions, participants in the high-autonomy condition were more likely to behave unethically because they felt less constrained by rules.
[The] experience of high job autonomy simultaneously increased unethical behavior and creativity, further demonstrating job autonomy to be a double-edged sword.

From The Guardian (Sarah Perry on "The book I wish I’d written"):
Either JL Carr’s A Month in the Country, or Fred Uhlmann’s Reunion. Both are technically peerless works, exquisite in style and in structure, seeming very small but containing multitudes. I read them and feel like an apprentice carpenter looking at a Chippendale desk.

From Harper's:
Old people’s early bedtimes and difficulty sleeping may be an adaptation to ensure that someone in a given group is awake at all times.

From The New York Times:
[Every] once in a while looking out over a picnic table at the whole crew on some summer evening, feeling a wave of gratitude sweep over you, and experiencing a joy that is greater than anything you could feel as a “self.”
Most people experience their deepest sense of meaning not when they have placidly met their other needs, but when they come together in crisis. 

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