Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinowis an American popular science author and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
CountryUnited States of America
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Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
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Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.
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Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
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One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.
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We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.
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One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.
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Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don't know intimately.
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People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.
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We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish.
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Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.
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I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.
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The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.
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By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.
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Intentionality and talent always matter. An extraordinary feat is certainly made more likely by someone's focus, hard work, etc. But chance also matters.