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Humans learn from mistakes — so why do we hide our failures?

  • Written by Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW
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A few years ago I had the pleasure of listening to the highly-influential legal scholar Cass Sunstein speak in the flesh. Cass wrote the best-selling book Nudge, along with his long-time collaborator Richard Thaler.

Thaler subsequently won the Nobel Prize in Economics and Cass went to the White House to head up a team advising the Obama...

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