FUD is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. I first heard the term when consulting at Gartner. I was working with the analysts in preparing for a Gartner Symposium, and several of them used FUD at the start of their talks to
What makes smart people dumb? Elizabeth Newton, a psychologist, conducted an experiment on the curse of knowledge while working on her doctorate at Stanford in 1990. She gave one set of people, called “tappers,” a list of commonly known songs
We often think that the placebo effect comes from the belief that a sugar pill is actual medicine, which leads us to the conclusion that if we believe something is good for us, we get a positive physiological response. I