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What Color Is Monday?
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Technology Makes Us Bigger
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Theory of Mind
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Seeing Culture in Our Brain
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How Neuroscience Informs (Behavioral) Economics
With insights from neuroscience, behavioral economics research seeks to understand why people are often predictably irrational when it comes to economic decision-making.
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