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Chocolate, Wine, and Tea Improve Cognitive Performance
Mind Hacks: Chocolate, Wine, and Tea Improve Cognitive Performance
Chocolate, Wine, and Tea Improve Cognitive Performance
By Gina Trapani, 9:10 AM on Mon Dec 29 2008, 4,429 views
If you're feeling guilty for all the holiday goodies you scarfed last week, take heart: Oxford researchers find that chocolate, wine and tea actually improve brain performance.
The Secret of Luck
The Secret of Luck: Why Some People Have All the Luck - Neatoramacarried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: ‘Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $50′.
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.
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