
Think Small
The Arthur Brooks Show
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The Effects of Psychic Numbing on the Brain
Psychologists call this insensitivity to magnitude of consequences psychic numbing. If large-scale numbers numb our brain, if they desensitize us, then the smallest numbers will have most profound effect on us. Social scientists would say that it attenuates our sense of self efficacy and makes us feel demobilized.
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