MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'anchoring'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:42:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4470451&cid=t_213507_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F12%2Fare-we-rational-animals-part-2%2F This is the second in a two-part discussion about human rationality. Click to read Part 1, Are We Rational Animals?. Intelligence as a predictor of rationality Some may be surprised to learn that high levels of intelligence do not necessarily indicate high levels of rationality.  In fact, some people may rank high in intelligence while low in rationality.  There is more to sound thinking than intelligence. Below is a list of rational thinking tasks and their association with cognitive ability/intelligence from Stanovich (2010, p.221). Tasks that fail to show associations with cognitive ability Noncausal base-rate usage (Stanovich & West, 1998c, 1999, 2008) Conjunction fallacy between subjects (Stanovich & West, 2008) Framing between subjects (Stanovich & West, 2008) Anchori... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4470451 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:44:23 +0100 4470451 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4086547&cid=t_213507_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2Fn4lQzfD9uCg%2F Finally after a few last minute screw ups (by me it has to be said) my ebook “What The Hell Is Life Coaching” is available for free automatic download by clicking the link. In case you’re not sure what it’s about or whether you want to bother reading about Life Coaching, I’m posting the intro to the book below to give you the heads up. I’ve written it to inform people about Life Coaching and not purely as a tool to promote me, although I’m not averse to the occasional bit of shameless self-promotion! I’d really welcome your feedback in the comments below after you have read it. What The Hell Is Life Coaching – Intro If you were to stop 10 people in the street and ask them what life is, you would probably get some strange looks, but my g... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4086547 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:12:52 +0100 4086547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3463886&cid=t_213507_180_f&fid=38612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpickthebrain%2FLYVv%2F%7E3%2FMENMBk8bCTI%2F This article is going to show you 3 simple and quick tools / methods you can use to boost your confidence. All of these things are quick boosts that you can do to help boost your confidence when you need it, and the more you use them the stronger your confidence will get in the long term, too. They will only take a few minutes to do, but none of them are magic / permanent solutions if all you ever do is use them once for 3 minutes. For best results you should practice them on an ongoing basis or use them at least once a day, and as you keep doing this the changes will really start to build and spill over into your every day life. Enough waffle anyway – here are my top 3 confidence building tools: Positive Affirmations: You are probably sick of hearing about affirmations, but have you act... PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3463886 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:27:23 +0100 3463886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2999891&cid=t_213507_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FO2X0BpYpyNY%2F Do me a huge favor will you please? This post really wont work if you don’t go and read this review of How To Be Rich and Happy first. Go on, humor me it’ll only take a couple of minutes, but please do NOT read the comments before you pop back here to finish this post. This is not a pathetic attempt to get you to read about my book because if it were, I’d send you to a review that was a bit more gushing and there are plenty of them (he says in a smug voice). So off you go to read it and I’ll be waiting for when you get back. Ok, so I’m trusting you’ve read it. If you haven’t that’s very naughty and you should go to bed without any dinner. What did you think of the review? More to the point, what did you think Stephen thought of the book? My first take was it was the most di... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2999891 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:40:06 +0100 2999891 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2967567&cid=t_213507_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FxB_44oKNDCU%2F Before I kick off let me ask for a favor if I may be so bold. If you know somebody that wants to quit smoking or you think would quit with the right help, send them this post or a link to this post. There really is no need for anybody that wants to quit not to be able in this day and age. I got an e-mail from somebody that reads The Discomfort Zone recently asking about advice on quitting smoking. I have touched on the subject once or twice in the past, but never in any great detail and not for some while. I think the reason primarily is because not only is it not something I do these days with clients, but it’s such a tough subject to cover off in one blog post without the risk of missing stuff out and I feel sure I  will do that, so feel free to add your tips in the comment field. Ho... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2967567 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:09:49 +0100 2967567 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2576911&cid=t_213507_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FTw5_q8jhIOk%2F I approached the Delta check-in at JFK Airport with trepidation. The lady behind the counter wasn’t laughing a lot. In fact she wasn’t laughing at all and may never have laughed in her entire life if the look on her face were anything to go by. I mentally rehearsed what I was going to say as I neared the front of the line. I knew I needed to execute my plan with clinical precision if it were to succeed. “Yes!” she barked. All of a sudden my mind went blanker than Sarah Palin facing a Katie Couric question. “Er” I stammered. “Er, I was thinking that you, er…er. Look, look! I can see Russia!”* “What?!” She looked at me with a sense of agitation mixed in with the kind of momentary pity usually reserved for the bugs you clean off the front of your car. She glanced ove... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2576911 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:52:57 +0100 2576911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2463342&cid=t_213507_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FKosPgJHFNi8%2F A few weeks ago I was pondering doing some advanced NLP training in Colorado. It appealed to me largely because two of the trainers leading the course were people I have the utmost respect for, Steve Andreas one of the fathers of NLP and Andy Austin the author of one of my favorite books on NLP, ‘The Rainbow Machine’. However, when I sat down to work out the cost of the training itself which was very reasonable, 6 nights hotel accommodation and the time I’d need to take off work, I realized it was going to be nudging the $5k mark. Did I want it that badly I wondered? The honest answer is probably not, because I let the early bird discount expire and did nothing about it for several weeks. Then a few nights ago I happened to mention to Duffy a friend on Twitter that I was still consid... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2463342 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:51:22 +0100 2463342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2463349&cid=t_213507_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FlPNH9jNxp8Y%2F If you want to know how to influence people and get your way more often then this is the post for you! If I walked up to you at a local Chamber of Commerce networking event and after introducing myself, proceeded to eat the rather nice shrimp vol-au-vent off your plate, quaff the last of your delicious wine and then after announcing you were an asshole, turned and walked off. What would you think of me? Would you be wondering what services or products I offered because you were eager to hire me or buy from me? Would you be angry and annoyed and want to punch the tasty crustacean back out of my mouth? Or would you be shell-shocked, stunned and speechless? Imagine the same scenario only this time the perpetrator is your best friend and you’re at a really boring event that neither of you wa... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2463349 Sun, 10 May 2009 16:10:38 +0100 2463349 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1975947&cid=t_213507_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F21%2Fsituationism-in-the-blogosphere-october-part-ii%2F Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during October 2008. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From Experimental Philosophy: “Causal Judgment and Moral Judgment“ “It is now widely believed that people’s moral judgments can affect their causal judgments, but a great deal of confusion remains about precisely why this effect arises. . . . Our hypothesis draws on the idea that people’s causal judgments are based on counterfactual reasoning.” Read more . . . From The Frontal Cortex: “Anchoring and Credit Cards“ “New research by the University of Warwick reveals that many credit card customers become fixated on the level of minimum payments given on credit... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1975947 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:18:03 +0100 1975947