{"id":341,"date":"2011-06-20T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2011-06-20T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:00:06","slug":"what-drives-our-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/what-drives-our-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"What Drives our Decisions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/061411_0956_whatdriveso11.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/ideas\/bill-ridgers\/how-and-when-make-a-decision\">this article<\/a> Bill Ridgers discusses some of the strange things that affect the types of decisions we make. Some interesting points include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is evidence to suggest that we make better decisions if we have really full bladders<\/li>\n<li>Judges are more likely to grant a pardon to an individual if they have just eaten a full meal, rather than if they are at the end of their sessions.<\/li>\n<li>What an interviewer is holding can affect how well the interview progresses. If an interviewer is holding a heavy clipboard then they are likely to view the job applicant as having more gravitas. If they are holding a lighter clipboard then they&#8217;re more likely to view the job candidate as flaky.<\/li>\n<li>Sitting on a hard chair while negotiating the price of a car will make you negotiate harder.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re more likely to associate a person with warmth if you&#8217;re holding a warm drink in your hand when you meet them instead of a cold drink.<\/li>\n<li>Sleep deprivation makes you more of a risk taker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/ideas\/bill-ridgers\/how-and-when-make-a-decision\">article<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/ideas\/bill-ridgers\/how-and-when-make-a-decision\">Intelligent Life Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/06\/10\/freak-est-links-11\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article Bill Ridgers discusses some of the strange things that affect the types of decisions we make. Some interesting points include: There is evidence to suggest that we make better decisions if we have really full bladders Judges are more likely to grant a pardon to an individual if they have just eaten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}