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The Power of Negative Thinking

Can our expectations for the future change how we remember the past? According to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology , they can--we remember unpleasant experiences more negatively if we expect to endure them again. Researchers at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University conducted seven experiments to determine how people’s expectations shape their memories

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Why Math Works (preview)

Most of us take it for granted that math works--that scientists can devise formulas to describe subatomic events or that engineers can calculate paths for space

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Small Business Hiring Picks Up in July

"July's small business data cheers me up," says an economist. Small businesses across the U.S. added 50,000 people to payrolls in July, continuing the trend of small increases in hiring that started nearly two years ago.

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The Unreasonable Beauty of Mathematics [Slide Show]

If you shut yourself in a room and devise some abstract mathematics for the sake of sheer intellectual fascination, you might not expect your scribblings to have any relevance to the real world. [More]

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