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Taking a class on human behavior at the No. 1 college in the US taught me we’re all much less rational than we like to believe

It’s only been six years since I graduated from college, but sitting there in Robertson Hall, I felt ancient.

Nearly every student who’d showed up to the Princeton University lecture that day was clacking away on a laptop — I’d come non-ironically armed with a legal pad and Bic pen.

And while I’d done all (okay, most) of the assigned readings for that day, the material was still hard to understand. When, later that day, I looked over my notes, there were more than a few question marks indicating where I got totally lost.

That sunny November morning, I was sitting in on read more >>>

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