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The Importance of Surprise in Teaching Psychology
To teach students any psychology they did not know before, you must surprise them. But which surprise will do? Nisbet and Borgeda found that when they presented their students with a surprising statistical fact, the students managed to learn nothing at all. You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.