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How action shapes thought

Pragmatism in Practice

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The Importance of Rapid Decision Making

All humans are making decisions about what they eat, what they wear every day. The judgments of these traits turn out to be related from faces appear to have broad consequences on our lives. They correlate with sentencing decisions, hiring decisions, salary and military rank. Our brains seem to make these evaluations automatically as we casually go about our business without an explicit intention to judge.

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