ISAP’11 International Summer School on Aviation Psychology: 3-8 July 2011, Graz (Austria)

ISAP (International Society for Aviation Psychology) Summer School combines an affordable training for graduate and undergraduate students in the field of Aviation Psychology and Human Factors with continuing education of professionals in the aviation sector such as psychologists, air traffic controllers, pilots, engineers or crew members. Professionals, researchers and students come from different places all… Continue reading ISAP’11 International Summer School on Aviation Psychology: 3-8 July 2011, Graz (Austria)

Nudge – Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN-978-o0300-12223-7 I am not a particular fan of books on healthy living or self-improvement. Having given up, without outside help, smoking a pipe after more than 35 years was enough to convince me that I had no use for such books… I have… Continue reading Nudge – Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Sway – The irresistible pull of irrational behavior

By Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman Publisher: Doubleday ISBN – 978-0-38552438-4 Put two identical products in different packaging and with different names and different prices on a store shelf. Have the more expensive one recommended by a well known face, the other advertised only by itself. Which one will sell more? The one endorsed by… Continue reading Sway – The irresistible pull of irrational behavior