15 September Today's term from psychology is Rosy Retrospection. Rosy Retrospection is the name given to remembering the past as being much better than it really was. Also referred to as looking at the

15 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1812 – The French army under Napoleon reached the Kremlin in Moscow. 1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opened. The L&M was the first locomotive-hauled

14 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1741 – George Frideric Handel completed his oratorio Messiah. 1752 – The British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was

14 September Today's term from psychology is Moral Luck. Moral Luck is the tendency for people to believe that someone is a more moral person, or a less moral person, based on the outcome of an event.

13 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1501 – Michelangelo began work on his statue of David. 1743 – Great Britain, Austria, and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms. 1848 – Vermont railroad

13 September Today's term from psychology is Forer Effect or Barnum Effect. The Forer Effect or Barnum Effect is the observation that individuals will say that a description of their personality, supposedly

12 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1624 - The first submarine was publicly tested in London on the Thames. 1758 - Charles Messier observed the Crab Nebula and began his catalog. 1846 – Elizabeth Barrett

12 September Today's term from psychology is Negativity Effect. The Negativity Effect, also known as Negativity Bias, refers to the idea that things of a more negative nature have a greater effect on a

11 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeated the English. 1565 – Ottoman forces retreated from Malta, End of the

11 September Today's term from psychology is Irrational Escalation, also known as the Sunk Cost Fallacy Irrational Escalation is the phenomenon where people justify increased investment in a decision,

10 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries landed in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission and bring Christianity to the Virginia Indians. Early

10 September Today's terms from psychology are Reactive Devaluation and Bias Blind Spot. Reactive Devaluation: Devaluing proposals only because they are purportedly originated with an adversary. The Bias

09 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: AD 9 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

09 September Today's term from psychology is Outgroup Homogeneity Bias. Outgroup Homogeneity Bias: Individuals see members of their own group as being relatively more varied than members of other groups.

08 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1504 – Michelangelo's David was unveiled in Florence. 1565 – The Knights of Malta lifted the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18. Many authors have tried

08 September Today's term from psychology is Overconfidence Effect. The Overconfidence Effect is a well-established cognitive bias in which someone's confidence in their own judgments is greater than the

07 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee made the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS

07 September Today's term from psychology is Conservatism Bias. Traditional ideas about how people think, ideas that were held for many centuries, made a LOT of incorrect assumptions about how we make

06 September 2018 Interesting tidbits: 1492 – Christopher Columbus sailed from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time. 1522 – The Victoria,

06 September Today we have two closely related cognitive terms from modern psychology, Projection Bias and False Consensus Bias. As individuals trapped inside our own minds 24/7, it's often difficult for