Education
Complete Only When the Pieces Fit: The Jigsaw Classroom
The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning method in which each student masters one piece of the material and teaches it to the group. This piece covers Elliot Aronson’s 1971 c
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Tourism studies
Who Finds a Destination First? Plog’s Psychographic Model
Plog’s Psychographic Model places travelers on a spectrum from adventurous allocentrics to familiarity-seeking psychocentrics and links them to the rise and fall of destinations. T
Economics
Winning but Losing: The Winner’s Curse
The winner’s curse is when the person who most overestimates an item’s uncertain value wins the auction and overpays. This piece covers its origin in Capen, Clapp and Campbell’s 19
Business administration
The Option That Changes Your Choice: The Decoy Effect
The decoy effect is when a deliberately less attractive option makes another product look better. This piece explains asymmetric dominance from Huber, Payne and Puto’s 1982 study,
Chemistry
Chemistry’s Bundle for Counting Atoms: Avogadro’s Number
Avogadro’s number is the number of particles in one mole of a substance, about 6.02 × 10²³. This piece explains what it means, ways to grasp its size, how Avogadro, Cannizzaro, Los
Statistics
The Paradox That Says Switch to Win: The Monty Hall Problem
The Monty Hall problem is a classic conditional-probability puzzle about how to update the odds when new information arrives. This piece covers the host’s rules, why switching wins
Earth science
When Glaciers Melt, the Land Rises: Isostasy
Isostasy is the idea that the crust floats on the denser mantle and balances at a height set by its thickness and density. This piece covers how the theory arose, the Airy and Prat
Information technology
Many Eyes Make Bugs Visible: Linus’s Law
Linus’s Law says that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. This piece covers its origin in Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar, why many eyes help find bugs, the li
General knowledge
It Always Takes Longer Than Expected: Hofstadter’s Law
Hofstadter’s Law says that it always takes longer than you expect, even when you take the law into account. This piece covers its origin in Gödel, Escher, Bach, its recursive struc
Film & media
The Sound That Rings Inside the Screen: Diegetic Sound
Diegetic sound is sound whose source we accept as being inside the story world, like dialogue, footsteps, or a radio in the scene, while non-diegetic sound such as background music
Journalism & communication
Making Friends on the Screen: Parasocial Interaction
Parasocial interaction is the one-sided sense of face-to-face closeness we feel with media figures who don’t know us. This piece covers Horton and Wohl’s 1956 concept, the differen
Psychology
The Illusion That It’s Just Their Personality: The Fundamental Attribution Error
The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to underestimate the situation and overestimate personality when explaining other people’s behavior. This piece covers Heider’s tw