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Self-affirmations can help increase your self-worth and motivation. With regular practice, you can shift your focus toward your strengths and adapt to new circumstances more easily. Self-affirmation ...

Greater fool theory involves buying overvalued assets to sell at profit to another buyer. U.S. housing example shows it can yield high or low returns based on market timing. This investment strategy ...

You know that feeling when you look back on something from the past and think, “Wow, we’ve come so far!” That’s modernization theory in a nutshell. It’s the idea that societies develop and progress ...

Contingency management (CM) is a behavioral therapy technique that encourages beneficial behaviors by giving rewards or positive reinforcement. CM incentivizes certain behaviors and discourages ...

Whether it’s Alfred Hitchcock’s use of voyeuristic suspense or Greta Gerwig’s character-driven bildungsromans, certain directors infuse their films with a unique artistic sensibility. This highly ...

A researcher can use a tightly parameterized structural model to obtain internally consistent estimates of a wide range of economically interesting targets. We ask how reliable these estimates are ...

Have you seen pictures of tourists in Italy pretending they are holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa? If so, did you know this optical illusion has a name and can deceive even the sharpest eye? A ...