Comments on: Violating the prime directive http://mindhacks.com/2013/01/31/violating-the-prime-directive/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:26:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dan http://mindhacks.com/2013/01/31/violating-the-prime-directive/#comment-49486 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:13:20 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=25715#comment-49486 As for binning my copy of Kuhn…I think that he said that paradigm shifts didn’t occur mainly through the process of rational discourse but rather as the result stemming from proponents of the old paradigm dying off.

]]> By: Ney http://mindhacks.com/2013/01/31/violating-the-prime-directive/#comment-49192 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:54:01 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=25715#comment-49192 Kahneman is not a Nobel laureate. He won a prize invented by a Swedish Bank, not one of the prices established by Nobel’s will.

Regarding the whole affair, since the Ioannides paper it should come as no surprise that you can count on most of established psychological findings as being exaggerated or plainly wrong.

]]> By: Angry Dude http://mindhacks.com/2013/01/31/violating-the-prime-directive/#comment-49149 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:24:10 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=25715#comment-49149 Very interesting. Kahneman uses this example and others in support of ideomotor something or other in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Is he he Nobel laureate flailing?

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