Consider this simple situational example: A boy notices his mother shut the door, and the room becomes less noisy; the correspondent inference is that she wanted quiet. Edward Jones, a social psychologist of the 1960s and 1970s, called that “attribute-effect… Continue Reading
You likely know the tragedy of Flight MH17 by now, but you may not know this story about Cor Pan, a Dutch man. Because he was flying on Malaysian Airlines — and remember, Flight 370 was only a few months… Continue Reading
You can find pretty good summaries all over the Internet (including here, here, and here), but the basic situation is this: a company called Freedom Industries — which actually works with water treatment chemicals — spilled 7,500 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or… Continue Reading