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How I Cheat at Taboo

11/26/2017

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Amanda van Lamsweerde, Ph.D.
Ok, so I’m not actually cheating. Really, it’s more like… leveraging my expertise in human cognition to enhance my strategizing capabilities. What happened was this: I was playing Taboo with my family and I noticed that the challenge of the game was that you have to keep way too many things in mind at once. So I figured a way around having to do all those things - by using what I know about working memory – and this made it easier for me to play. Then I started playing way better than everyone else. The next time we played the game, I used my strategy again and it seemed to work pretty well. Even though I have a pretty small sample in this personal study, I think it’s still pretty good strategy. Or, maybe you can take this information and  come up with your own strategy.

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A psychologist, anthropologist, and astronaut walk into a conference room…

11/7/2017

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A few months ago I had an incredible opportunity to join the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute (BASI) and an interdisciplinary team of social scientists to discuss the future of human-centered research in regards to deep space exploration. Human space travel has become a hot topic once again, but this time it’s beyond orbits around the earth, trips to the International Space Station (ISS), or even lunar surface landings. This time our eyes are set on the fourth rock from the sun…Mars.


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