People do not always behave rationally. To a significant extent, this results from our limited psychological capacities and knowledge, our bounded rationality. Yet some individuals do seem to make consistently better decisionsthey better approximate normative models, are more likely to avoid judgment biases, and more effectively adapt to a variety of cognitive demands (Frederick, 2005; Stanovic...

Theories about reading have moved away from viewing the reader as a passive recipient of textual input, as a tabula rasa upon which the author sketches his or her message. Under this view, reading comprehension is easily explained by the success of the textual input entering and staying intact within the mind of the reader. Adopting this view, some character educators can assert that reading mo...