Tolstoy Syndrome—Engineering Science

phds.org Engineering Science: Building better scientists and engineers phds.org Home Grad School Rankings Jobs for PhDs Engineering Science Blog About phds.org RSS Print Contact us Email this page A A A About the authors Log in Log out
Search for You are here: Home → Tolstoy Syndrome

Your Account Edit your profile Email alerts Log out Recent Posts 07/25 Math Scores Show No Gap for Girls 07/16 So graduate school is good for what, exactly? 07/09 Sloan Grants 07/02 Foreign Born TAs 06/29 Science Prizes 06/24 phds.org Facelift 06/04 Larry Summers Revisited 06/02 Women in Science in the News 05/28 Remember all those imminent faculty retirements? 05/21 Japan worried about engineering "shortages," too 05/19 Hard times in physics? 05/18 Tolstoy Syndrome 05/13 Manufacturing Innovation 05/06 Making the Grade 05/03 Privacy paranoia at NSF? Categories 110 Home 6 Introduction 10 Gathering Storm 14 Graduate School 6 Immigration 17 Labor Market 17 NIH Crisis 3 On the Hill 4 Postdocs 12 Skills 8 Women in Science Blogroll Nobel Intent The Scientific Activist Effect Measure The Open Science Project Funding The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fiscal Sponsor The Center for Science and the Media	Tolstoy Syndrome Reply to comment: Samantha Zeitlin on Fri, May 23, 05:05PM I'm reading Kevin's Hogan's book The Science of Influence, and I agree that confirmation bias is incredibly important. It's really just another way of discussing resistance to change, right? I'd be curious to know if I should read Nudge next? Keep doing what you're doing. Postdocs and grad students are glad anyone is trying. Have your say Make sure you follow the rules of the road Comment with no account Name (Required) Email (Required) Web site Log in with my password If you don't have an account yet, take a minute to create one. Email (Required) Password (Required) You can add formatting with markdown, e.g. `italics` → italics, `boldface` → boldface, `[my link](http://www.phds.org)` → my link Email replies to my comment to me
PhDs.org and its visual design copyright © 1997-2008 Collected Insight, Inc. All rights reserved. Terms of use. Privacy policy. Please contact us if you have suggestions for or problems with the site.