Jonah Lehrer (born June 25, 1981) is an American author and journalist who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities.

Knight Foundation Stephen Glass Malcolm Gladwell Jayson Blair Bob Dylan New Yorker Bob Woodward David Byrne New York Magazine

Truth. Richard Feynman, Jonah Lehrer, and Neil deGrasse Tyson would all agree.

A story a bit before my time. Jonah Lehrer had nothing on Stephen Glass by in

has anyone found a summery of his chapters for The Decivsive moment?

I'm generally suspicious of pop psychology books from non MDs. Especially after being burned by Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer

Its one of the reasons I was really annoyed by Jonah Lehrer's plaigarism etc. I'd loved that book and the basics of the argument appealed.

I'm a big believer in creating frameworks to make Doing It Wrong harder. Some perspective from Jonah Lehrer:

Does brainstorming tend to promote or suppress creativity?

Started KillingKennedy. So far a good read. Try this for your reads: How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. It's fascinating!

"betting on potential is always a risk, but that's the only way to get a surplus of talent." Jonah Lehrer

'The reality of things is naturally obsured by the clutter of the world' Jonah lehrer - imagine

'We see nothing at first glance' jonah lehrer - imagine

"How Creativity Works, an interview with Jonah Lehrer on NPR. Love the book cover design."

itll be interesting to see how the journalism world reacts to this one. (same journalism world that paid Jonah Lehrer $20k for plagiarizing)

Hardly a case made here. Fear Jonah Lehrer better produced "evidence".

and I was just about to buy the book... Jonah Lehrer: I 'Plagiarized' via

Have you guys missed the insights of Jonah Lehrer? Not to worry, biz rags have you covered.

{imp. discussion on science reporting ethics: read comments 2} We’re All Jonah Lehrer Except Me : by

Proust was not a neuroscientist, after all. JONAH LEHRER HAS FAILED US AGAIN. via

Jonah Lehrer would be a writer in good standing if he'd only chosen "the Grand Bargain" as his central topic.

We travel because we need to, because distance & difference are the secret tonic of creativity. (Jonah Lehrer)

finished Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer and gave it 5 stars

-I did watch Horizon tonight. have to say I think by Jonah Lehrer covered the same materials plus more and better

"A radical concept is merely a new mixture of old ideas" Jonah Lehrer

"At its heart, teaching is a set of marvelous, challenging but workable intellectual puzzles."

on creativity. That reminds me, Jonah Lehrer owes me £15.00.

Stephen Glass, the Jonah Lehrer of the 90s, but with racism MT is right. This is insanely racist

"How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them." Jonah Lehrer

At this point, I'd ask Jonah Lehrer to prove anything he said he spoke to himself in the privacy of his own home.

Whatever the opposite of Jonah Lehrer is?

BBC Two - Horizon, 2013-2014, The Creative Brain: How Insight Works > Wonder if Jonah Lehrer will pop up in this?

Things I will mention in this morning's lecture on plagiarism: The Grey Album, Jonah Lehrer, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Duchenne smile.

Bird brains, from the archives Jonah Lehrer then wrote something similar

Porch time yippee!! (This book is real good btw - Imagine: how creativity works by Jonah Lehrer)

"A reason Woodward’s critics...come off as hysterical ninnies:He doesn’t make Jonah Lehrer–level mistakes."

In which it is argued that Bob Woodward is almost--though not quite--in Jonah Lehrer territory:

Good read on new creativity research >> Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative via

Mrs. Ryan still has that Jonah Lehrer book I lent her a year ago.

Example of damning with faint praise: on Bob Woodward "He doesn’t make Jonah Lehrer–level mistakes"

-problem solving & thinking.Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated | Brain Pickings

Finishing 'Imagine' by Jonah Lehrer. Enjoying the latter part more than the former. Falling over real gems once in a while too.

You can't say that because Jonah Lehrer imagined connections and fabricated quotes or whatever, that therefore...

Jonah Lehrer's work is a recent notorious example.

Good point. Why not just google them? It's what Jayson Blair, Mike Barnacle, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Jonah Lehrer would do.

It's true that not every journalist is working for free. Jonah Lehrer, Joshua Treviño, Bob Woodward. Who says there are no success stories?

One of my favorite things about living in a city, perfectly explained. (Reading "Imagine" by Jonah Lehrer)

I wish Jonah Lehrer writes more, but genuinely and shows us authentic bodies of work...

Thought I saw Jonah Lehrer at ORD, but what would I say? "Pardon me, are you disgraced former science writer & nerd crush Jonah Lehrer?!"

Question: Has any library removed IMAGINE by Jonah Lehrer due to the fabrication problem (or any other issue?)

HMH pulls Jonah Lehrer's HOW WE DECIDE from publication, too. (His first book will stay, though.) via

Jonah Lehrer's recent speech ("everything else aside, it's actually very good" -- via

So the fallen star of popular neuroscience, Jonah Lehrer, is back. Kind of. Lehrer’s made headlines for giving a talk apologizing for the plagiarism, fabrication of facts and quotes, etc. that ended his career when they were found out last year. His impressive portfolio of books, articles, blogs and...

It's often only at this point, after we've stopped searching for the answer, that the answer arrives. It is when we come to an impass that the way is shone -Jonah Lehrer, Imagine

Today I learned that willpower is an illusion-a magic trick of sorts. The 'trick' is controlling your spotlight. In practicality what this means is distracting your mind from the object of your desire. If you don't think about it you won't want it and will be able to delay gratifying your desire. Pretty cool eh? "Control Your Spotlight" an essay by Jonah Lehrer

The more you clearly understand your creative process (instead of thinking of it as a "mystery"), the more you will create. Understanding does not revoke its power but only increases it. Reading this book is teaching me yet again, above all, the importance of PERSISTANCE and CONSISTANCE. Which I preach to my students in terms of movement as a practice but have yet to fully embrace in my own choreography work, still clinging to old ideas that things "just happen when it's meant to be" (which is BS for a million reasons)...but that is changing right this *** minute. Nietzsche was understanding something uber important that brain science now confirms: "Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration...shining down from heaven as a ray of grace. In REALITY, the imagination of a good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre, or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects...All great artists . ...

Jonah Lehrer should write his biography.

"Distance + difference are the secret tonic of in our mind had changed & that everything." Jonah Lehrer

the jonah lehrer is useful on the whole psychology of creativity. Withdrawn from publication though. Scandal!

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my dopamine neurons." Jonah Lehrer

Okay, now I'm seriously watching Argo. Well not seriously. I mean the movie's probably as true as a Jonah Lehrer essay.

Poll: what do you think Jonah Lehrer should do with the $20k Knight paid him?

Mensch at work: Julie Rannazzisi, an ethical example to laud -

Jon Friedman's Media Web: Julie Rannazzisi, an ethical example to laud...

It seems like a ridiculous question: Can a parent's or teacher’s words influence learning? Of course, we’d respond, how well a parent or teacher explains new ideas naturally influences student learning. But what about the words that are less planned, the comments parents or teachers make in response to students’ ideas, efforts, and results? Can they make much of a difference? Research suggests they can and do, probably to degrees we’d be surprised to discover. Words reinforce beliefs, and beliefs, especially those about intelligence, influence learning. Students can hold or lean toward either believing intelligence is something you’re born with (or without), or intelligence is something you gain through effort. A student who believes you’re born smart—or not—is less likely to put forth effort to learn. This student seeks to convince those around him that he is one of the chosen who were given the gift of smart at birth. Either that, or the student may believe he is not among the chosen so ...

"Whenever someone makes a decision, the brain is awash with feeling, driven by its inexplicable passion." - Jonah Lehrer

With title chapters like 'Bob Dylan's Brain' and 'The Shakespeare Paradox' Jonah Lehrer's 'Imagine' looks promising, it does not disappoint

Sadly, science journalism must be more rigorous than actual science, because it influences more people.

Let's meet for coffee and devise some nature of punishment for the Jonah Lehrer and Jeremy Scotts of the world.

* Jonah Lehrer ended up back in the news recently, again for the wrong reasons, this time because a journalism foundation paid him their standard $20,000 honorarium to come speak at their conference about how he went from one of the brightest stars in science writing to fabricating quotes from Bob D...

Journalism's antidote to Jonah Lehrer: The foundation, noting that it has long stood for quality journalism, l...

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"Distance & difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, & that changes everything." - Jonah Lehrer

hey stephen did you read jonah Lehrer 'Imagine'? useful, but may not exist any more!

Prediction: is going to be just as big an embarrassment to his claquers as Jonah Lehrer is to Looking at you

1 of 5 stars to Imagine by Jonah Lehrer

"to walk through a dreams-cape whose atmosphere sticks to us and makes us who we are.” Ann Powers, NPR “On Bob Dylan & Jonah Lehrer

WOW! Jonah Lehrer was kind of a fraud...

"There's only one problem with the assumption of human rationality--it's wrong." - Jonah Lehrer

I spent my train journey home reading about the jonah lehrer case and pondering how problematic I find the notion of 'self-plagiarisation'

CJR 'I need rules' more on Jonah Lehrer

And some of us are permanently obscure no matter how many times we change our avatar. Signed, Jonah Lehrer

Quotation is a serviceable substitution for wit. (RT Is Shia LaBeouf the new Jonah Lehrer?

Editors’ Note: Portions of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, post by Jonah Lehrer for Wired.com, in an August, 2008, column by Lehrer for the Boston Globe, and in his previously published book “Imagine.” We regret...

Watching a bunch of Fox News commentators discuss rape is like watching Jonah Lehrer talk about journalistic...

The co-host of "The Five" still doesn't understand that rapes happen on college campuses, too [VIDEO]

Author Jonah Lehrer is really very sorry about lying - Jonah Lehrer — wunderkind...

Never mind Jonah Lehrer. The Knight Foundation should be ashamed of itself.

Plagiarist & disgraced “journalist” Jonah Lehrer got $20K to talk about plagiarism to a journalism conference.

Poor circulation is what The New Yorker has had since the Jonah Lehrer scandal.

Great thought-provoking piece by on journalism ethics in the modern age. Must read.

Marijuana is currently regulated by the United States government as a Schedule I drug, placing it in the same category as heroin, MDMA and LSD. This is

Wages of Jonah Lehrer's sin: $20,000 honorarium from the Knight Foundation. via

"The brain in a neural tangle of near-infinate possibility, which means that it spends a lot of time and energy choosing what *not* to notice." -Jonah Lehrer. Imagine

Is the late, great French novelist also the progenitor of every wannabe rock star's favorite pastime?

I get why you're upset he took credit for your Fieri joke, but is not Jonah Lehrer or Jayson Blair.

I'm looking for a good book on the scientific research about the emotional side of decision making that's written for an intelligent, lay audience. Any suggestions? (No Jonah Lehrer, please.)

Since 1999, the nonprofit charity Donors Trust has handed out nearly $400 million in private donations to more than 1,000 right-wing and libertarian groups.

by Ryan Duffy Last week the story of Jonah Lehrer reached national attention once again. Just thirty-one years old, Lehrer was like a young Malcolm Gladwell, writing bestselling books and feature a...

Last week I wrote several pieces in response to the reaction to Jonah Lehrer’s apology speech. I published one, the second that I wrote, on my blog last week. This is the first piece that I wrote. I was told by others that it was too related to our own work to post elsewhere. As such I combined part...

Creativity explored in this video by Jonah Lehrer. Great books exploring the nature of creativity and the creative process. How to be more creative.

The decision by the Knight Foundation to pay Jonah Lehrer, who has admitted fabricating quotes and duplicating material, $20,000 for a speech brought swift ire from many journalists.

Lots of marketing people use the classic ascension model (ala Dan Kennedy) where you advertise to get people to buy a cheap widget... then proceed to offer them ever higher priced widgets. While this model works just fine... in many cases it's not the best fit depending on what the goals for your business are. I prefer what I call the Mercedes funnel (my name)... where you show prospects the fully loaded AMG S Class first... even if they end up buying the C Class, because the contrast makes for higher initial purchases : ) Again, it depends what you're selling : )

Just finished great book: Imagine by Jonah Lehrer on how creativity works

This week, Jonah Lehrer caused even more controversy when it was announced that he was paid $20,000 for his public apology about his plagiarism scandal.

Journalists love to bust one another for quantifiable crimes like plagiarism. But they have a much harder time dealing with intangible questions like whether a piece of work is any good. Jonah Lehrer's apology tour—long on analyses of his plagiarism, short on discussion of his mediocrity—is a pretty...

Last week, Annette Schavan, Germany’s education and science minister (and confidante of Chancellor Angela Merkel) resigned and was stripped of her Ph.D, after the discovery that her dissertation was plagiarized. At the start of February, some 70 Harvard students were forced to leave the university ...

"Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. We have worked hard, but we've hit the wall. We have no idea what to do next." ~ Jonah Lehrer, 'IMAGINE - How Creativity Works'

Commonly, we heard stories of GIs who "hit the deck" reflexively when they heard an unexpected, loud noise, like a car suddenly backfiring. What happened with these GIs is that the midbrain, or the unconscious mind (or the "puppy inside" as I put it) has learned to bypass logical thought processes and established conditioned reflexes, or sympathetic nervous system (SNS) responses, instantly, without having to be told to do it. This can be a powerful survival mechanism in combat. For example, your unconscious mind hears the incoming artillery and you hit the ground without having to spend time thinking about it, saving vital milliseconds in the process. It just takes time for this kind of conditioned "reflex" to "decay." Using your breathing exercises and gaining conscious control over these SNS responses is like putting a "leash" on the puppy. But remember, to the puppy (and we really do have a puppy inside) that gunfight in that simulator was real! We have hit the level where our simulations can be real ...

This morning before school I was talking with some other parents about a funeral for an 8 year old 4th grader that’s taking place tonight. He died in a fire last week. I spend a lot of time at the school and know a lot of kids by sight but not name. I think it’s pheromones, but when kids see me i...

The Knight Foundation issued a statement on its blog Wednesday night saying it regretted it had paid author Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to speak at a conference.

An interesting Mediatwits Google hangout that begins with a discussion of the State of the Union but then branches out into a discussion of the feasibility of starting one's own blog, the work done by Gawker, amateur vs. professional journalism in the blogosphere, the new "sponsored" journalism that some forms of new media are foisting on us, and the Jonah Lehrer "scandal" of the Knight Foundation paying him $20,000 for an appearance to talk about his earlier scandalous journalistic practices ... It's quite a quite lively and fascinating panel with Andrew Sullivan, Ana Marie Cox, Monica Guzman, Felix Salmon and moderated by Mark Glaser.

What IS intelligence? It’s definitely more than IQ, logic and memory. Is intelligence the ability to think outside the box? Is it the ability to empathize wit

Jonah Lehrer earns $20,000 honorarium for talking about plagiarism ... -

Jonah Lehrer, the reporter and author cut loose by The New Yorker and Wired last year after he was caught out using work by others without attribution and fabricating quotes, received a $20,000 honorarium to speak at a Knight Foundation-sponsored journalism conference, reports The New York Times.

The Knight Foundation says it regrets paying known plagiarist Jonah Lehrer a $20,000 fee to speak at a conference this week, where the disgraced journalist offered his latest mea (sorta) culpa for his journalistic sins that cost him his job at The New Yorker and derailed his professional career. Her...

We're making an effort to ressurect the blog – start checking back here for KWUR news (there will be plenty of it this semester) and random musings. This is something of a random musing, but first some quick KWUR newses:

Jonah Lehrer, promising young golden boy of Gladwellian think-journalism, has had a bad eight months. Caught plagiarizing himself last June; soon after, caught fabricating quotes, and forced to resign from his plum gig at the New Yorker, and rapidly cast out of the chosen fold to wander the...

Knight Foundation Regrets the Lehrer (NY Mag / Daily Intelligencer) When the Knight Foundation, whose stated mission is to promote "quality journalism," paid admitted plagiarist and fabricator Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to speak at its seminar in Miami, the irony was lost on nobody -- except maybe the Knight Foundation, whose president told Erik Wemple the booking found little dissent among its leaders. But after a steady flow of criticism since Lehrer's address, the Foundation has finally thought better of its decision. Poynter / MediaWire The Washington Post's Erik Wemple spoke with Knight CEO and president Alberto Ibargüen just after critics questioned the fee and reported that "there wasn't a lot of dissension among decision-makers" about paying Lehrer. "We would typically pay a speaker sometimes more than that," Ibargüen told Wemple. Critics suggested Lehrer should donate the fee. Jeff Bercovici reached Lehrer by phone and asked about that possibility. "I read your article. I have nothing to say to you," ...

If you are a journalist or writer making at least part of your living on the Internet, heed this lesson: Don’t lie. Pretty simple, really. But, if you have been naughty and you have the misfortune ...

The Knight Foundation said it should never have paid a $20,000 speaking fee to admitted plagiarist Jonah Lehrer. Meanwhile, the American Copy Editors Society hopes the foundation will participate in its plagiarism summit.

Knight Foundation says it was mistake to pay plagiarist Jonah Lehrer $20,000 for speech. via

Knight Foundation is apologizing for paying Jonah Lehrer $20K:

Jonah Lehrer says he still intends to pursue writing

As we inch closer and closer to sending off "Florida Soup" to the printer, I'm always reading about books, authors and publishing. I read an interesting story this morning. If I understand this correctly, a disgraced, admitted plagiarist who was forced to resign from a prominent national magazine was paid $20,000 by a nonprofit foundation to talk about his plagiarism and mistakes. WHAT? Does anyone else see how absurd this is?

Jonah Lehrer's "rehabilitation" could have been written by Milan Kundera. Time for "journalists" like to leave him alone.

Remember some months ago when we were talking about how Jonah Lehrer was making stuff up in his

Wednesday Giant Pandas, Jonah Lehrer, Spider Assassin, new owl species, scientific metrics, and more.

How Jonah Lehrer can prove his apology wasn’t a sham

Yesterday Jonah Lehrer—the disgraced fabulist and plagiarist who used to pen best-selling books and write big-think pieces for The New Yorker—got

The popular science writer is sorry for re-using old blog posts at The New Yorker; for inventing Bob Dylan quotes in his book; and for plagiarizing press releases at Wired. Adding to the spectacle of his awkward apology, he was flanked this social-media reaction.

I’ve been asked to give a talk about decision-making. I’m going to focus today on bad decisions, on the causes and repercussions of failure. The failure I’ll be talking about is my own.

The REAL problem with Jonah Lehrer: Before his talk, some of us already suspected that the reason he thought he could get away with what he did was because he thinks we're all too stupid to keep up with a clever little genius like himself. What he said at the Knight Foundation seminar made it pretty clear he still thinks that's the case. The fact that he got $20,000 to say it suggests that maybe he's right.

What we do with failure is what really matters. "I’d like to end with a quote from Bob Dylan, one he actually said: “She knows there’s no success like failure and that failure’s no success at all.” I used to believe that this verse was inherently inscrutable, just a hollow riddle. But now I see that the words are literal; there is no riddle at all. Because success does require failure. It requires that we struggle and screw up and keep going. That we learn from what we cannot do well." - Jonah Lehrer, "My Apology"

"I need rules," said Jonah Lehrer earlier today during a speech at the Knight Foundation that broke nearly every rule of propriety and good taste. (The plagiarist and fabulist received a $20,000 mea-culpa fee for his troubles.) "What I clearly need is a new list of rules, a stricter set...

Jonah Lehrer introduces us to our own imagination and how to understand it better.

Poynter reports that Jonah Lehrer, the disgraced journalist who resigned from The New Yorker last year amid plagiarism charges, was paid $20,000 to speak publicly about his dishonesty at a Knight Foundation event today in Miami. “Like most outside speakers at Knight events, he was paid an hono...

Jonah Lehrer was paid $20,000 to talk about plagiarism at Knight lunch

I usually don’t get excited when I get invited to visit a department on campus at USC. It’s a brick building, right? I just got the chance to take a tour of the new Brain & Creativity Institute, which has a focus on the connection between art and how we think. The space includes a state-of-the-art theatre with a three-story acoustic ceiling. The tour was led by the founder himself, a wonderfully charming Argentine fellow named Antonio Damasio, who I later found out is the Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology and Neurology. So, it must have been fate that the only folks who could attend the tour were three Mexicans; Oliver Mayer, Jonathan Munoz-Prouix and myself. Truthfully, he was so unassuming and conversational, I had no idea he was such an important figure on campus. It surprises you that the building is even there. It is tucked away and unassuming, wedged behind the old temporary food court tent. The centerpiece of the lobby is a wonderful video installation by Jennifer Stein ...

Okay, I'm not saying that Jonah Lehrer should write a Lance Armstrong biography, but I'm saying it should be considered.

I want to live in a world where the Jonah Lehrer controversy goes away and stays away. It bums me out every time it resurfaces.

.trustee Ray Rodriguez do you support the decision to pay Jonah Lehrer $20k to speak at

After having been revealed as a recycler of material and inventor of quotes, Jonah Lehrer explains himself

Jonah Lehrer, a real piece of work.

Can you outsource integrity? Jonah Lehrer thinks so. In fact, that's his plan for reviving his career as a big-idea science journalist. At a seminar hosted by the Knight Foundation on Tuesday afternoon, the formerly high-flying author and speaker gave his first public accounting of the fabricatio...

Why would an organization promoting "journalistic excellence" pay $20,000 to a plagiarist to speak? I asked Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen.

Jonah Lehrer has a degree from the Paul Wolfowitz School of Always Failing Upwards. I have no idea what their secret is.

So, who'd like to contemplate the irony of Jonah Lehrer getting a $20,000 fee to discuss his public disgrace? CERTAINLY NOT ME!

“Whatever I write will be fact-checked and fully footnoted. Every conversation with a subject will be tape-recorded and transcribed.”

Does it seem odd to you that Jonah Lehrer is getting paid $20,000 to speak about plagiarism?

Holy crap MT Jonah Lehrer was paid $20,000 by Knight to speak He confessed plagiarism, fabrication in talk

Despite everything, Jonah Lehrer is still hot.

Finding lots of inspiration at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Conference. About to hear from Jonah Lehrer.lessons learned from failure.

They Loved This Topic When I hold seminars our mastermind meetings, people often ask about how my brain works in terms of creativity. Usually once I tell them it becomes one of their favorite sessions. In this article, I’ll explain how I foster my imagination to create so much content. Craig Ballantyne “There is no such thing as a good idea unless it is developed and utilized.” – Kekich Credo to Be Creative By Craig Ballantyne I’m a lucky man. Creativity comes relatively easy to me. Unfortunately, a lot of folks struggle with idea generation. So let’s take a look at the techniques I use to create content. If we dig deep inside my brain, there will be a few things you might take away (just don’t take my medulla oblongata – I need that for breathing). Apply these habits to maximize your daily output and minimize your daily stress. The first thing I do when I get up is to scribble down all of my ideas. My brain is full of them first thing in the morning. I also get up early because that is w ...

Jonah Lehrer was one of the first writers I befriended as I went into science writing. I did so before he published his first book. We became friends, blog

Jonah Lehrer will discuss his plagiarism scandal today at a live-streamed Knight Foundation event.

I'm reading an incredible book called IMAGINE (Jonah Lehrer) & this quote (from PIXAR) laid it out for me: "... Having two different standards of quality was BAD for our SOULS... You either MAKE the BEST stuff you can or you shut up Shop"

Why does the "aha!" moment arrive only after we stop looking for it? At Behance's 99% Conference, Jonah Lehrer explains how creative insight works & what dri...

Just FYI: a Daily Mail article that quotes Infowars and links to .info conspiracy blogs is like Jonah Lehrer writing in the National Enquirer citing sources from Stephen Glass.

Quote fabricator Jonah Lehrer. What now? There is always the David Foster Wallace swing thing.

Reading up on Jonah Lehrer. Sad story. Reminds me, blow by devastating blow, of the fate of Stephen Glass. And that Shattered Glass is great

Darnell Hillanbrand liked What the *** is going on with Jonah Lehrer?: Pressed for an explanation, Mr. Lehrer…

On page 89 of 279 of Imagine, by Jonah Lehrer: This is getting interesting..

On academic blogging as bridging. Cc

Blogging fast and slow | Some thoughts on blogging and science >> HT

Blogging Fast and Slow: Being an Account of the Author’s Misadventures in Guest-Blogging, with Some Musings on t...

is my favorite podcast/radio show. Can't help but feel disappointment now when hearing old episodes including Jonah Lehrer

Still not over the whole Jonah Lehrer thing.

today's best ad line: "how creativity works from Nietzsche to Jonah Lehrer"

“...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.” ~Jonah Lehrer

Reading How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. Apparently dopamine was the secret ingredient in Felix Felicis.

for books-I'm falling back in love with them & it's fabulous. Currently reading: Imagine/Jonah Lehrer

Good books I've read recently: The Bartender's Tale, by Ivan Doig. A wonderful novelist and this new one is one of his best. I'm Your Man by Sylvie Simmons, a biography of Leonard Cohen. He'd be a good guy to have a cup of coffee with. Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. Lehrer's career went to *** when it came out that he'd made up quotes for this book, but it's still a very interesting book. Any other suggestions?

"Human minds are so eager to detect other minds that they often imbue inanimate object like computers and stuffed animals with internal mental states." -Jonah Lehrer

Jonah Lehrer on Religious Thoughts and Self-Control | Head Case - via

Yes, I love Jonah Lehrer. Yes it's wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Brainstorming don't work so good, so why not criticise one another instead...! (RSA Short) via

"We only wanted one thing from Jonah Lehrer: a story. He told it so well that we forgave him almost ­everything." -

"If you know you can do it, trust your gut... not your head. Years of experience can be drowned by an onslaught of overthinking." ...excerpts from a book by Jonah Lehrer

Check out how groups help foster creativity for products we love, just like our class group experience!

Misalignment in-focus: "...blasting popular neuroscience-dependent writers like Jonah Lehrer and Malcolm Gladwell..."

Sensitive and wise piece about disgraced journalist and writer Jonah Lehrer: ht Well worth a read.

Third of four instalments at American Science blog on Jonah Lehrer, Malcolm Gladwell, science and journalism

That awkward moment when you find one of your old postings recommending a Jonah Lehrer article

Illa Niswender liked Takeaways from Jonah Lehrer&&| distilled: We’d all love to be able…

I feel bad about making fun of Jonah Lehrer and Lindsay Lohan all those times

In the Jonah Lehrer version Bob Dylan invented the Grinnell system in a secret notebook.

and something for Jonah Lehrer to plagiarize.

Was just about to pick up Jonah Lehrer's PROUST WAS A NEUROSCIENTIST for lazy Sunday reading, then read this. Sigh.

"Our most important mental talent: the ability to imagine what has never existed" --Jonah Lehrer

If no one else has already, I'd like to be the 1st to publicly forgive Jonah Lehrer. I'm looking forward to his return from The Wilderness.

see photosClick for full photo gallery: 8 Tips For Boosting Productivity At Work This Summer One of my colleagues used to head to the men’s room and brush his teeth every time he felt a surge of writer's block. He swears it did the trick. Another exits the building and walks [...]

Picked up Imagine:How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer today. I cannot wait to crack the binding and dig in.

The profound mysteries of creative thought have long intimidated the world's finest brains. How do you measure the imagination? How do you quantify an epiphany? These daunting questions led researchers to neglect the subject for hundreds of years. In Jonah Lehrer's ambitious and enthralling new b...

Rob Herritt on the flaws of Jonah Lehrer-style pop science and a nature-versus-nurture book done right

"Reason without emotion is impotent." - Jonah Lehrer

Jonah Lehrer plagiarism in An investigation into plagiarism, quotes, and factual inaccuracies. - Slate Magazine ...

Just finishing Jonah Lehrer's book Imagine. Great book makes sense of this insanity!!

Rejection process is not fun. It’s the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. - Jonah Lehrer

“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.” —Jonah Lehrer

It is the struggle that forces us to try something new. Jonah Lehrer

Sitting next to girl reading a Jonah Lehrer book. I wanna stand up and yell "he's a big cheater!" But we're in the quiet car

Even though the author was in trouble for making up quotes, I thought this book was very good

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Try reading "How we decide" by Jonah Lehrer. It explains how the brain tricks us into believing falsehoods because we don't want to admit we are wrong.

Scientists map the fugue state that allows rappers to freestyle, jazz musicians to improvise, and artists turn off their self-edit.

Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?

The Eureka Hunt by Jonah Lehrer depicts the spontaneous thought people experience when least expected. This is called the insight experience

"Creativity is a verb, a very time consuming verb." Milton Glaser (From Imagine by Jonah Lehrer)

On page 18 of 302 of How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer

"One pill to erase your worst memories. Want to try it?" - the new science of forgetting by jonah lehrer

I take your point but I've always been skeptical of that essay, and since Jonah Lehrer's recent spot of bother.

Great article. It reminds me of the Pixar method explained in Imagine: how creativity works , by Lehrer, Jonah. Great read

"From the perspective of the brain, new ideas are merely several old ideas that occur at the exact same time" -Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide

"Almost everybody was satisfied with Lehrer’s (specific descriptions of their work"

Jonah Lehrer is a gifted writer. But, as a behavioral economist, he's a gifted writer. Dark Side of Content Marketing

An analysis of a now-ironic piece on the messiness of science by Jonah Lehrer, one of my favourite science writers.

Feeding my Jonah Lehrer obsession; this piece addresses a ton of concerns I've been wrestling with recently.

Excellent long read on Jonah Lehrer, plagiarism and the sad state of science journalism cc.

What 7 scientists thought of a Jonah Lehrer piece opining on their results (↬

Great post on our desire to consume "insights" & how it churns out substandard content. Thx for the pointer.

Jonah Lehrer, Scientists, and the Nature of Truth. Comments on the scientific method. Blog post by Virginia Hughes

The subject is Jonah Lehrer; the problem is much larger: The drive to be considered a "thought leader."

Boris Kachka (serves up the slickest zingers @ Jonah Lehrer, TED/Wired culture for NYM. Sporty read :)

Is reading IMAGINE by Jonah Lehrer and listening to Robert Cray - Sweet Potato Pie.

The fast food industry can read your mind.

TED Talks Radio host Julie Burstein talks with creative people for a living -- and shares four lessons about how to create in the face of challenge, self-doubt and loss. Hear insights from filmmaker Mira Nair, writer Richard Ford, sculptor Richard Serra and photographer Joel Meyerowitz.

Fantastic article here from science doesn’t give us the answers we want, we find someone who will.

On page 8 of 279 of Imagine, by Jonah Lehrer

Yeouch. This is twisting the knife in exactly the right way.

If your name is J. Lehrer, you are either pleasantly boring (Jim) or suspiciously interesting (Jonah).

I didn't need to find this at 1 am, but I do highly recommend it. cc: (h/t )

"What if a journalist writes a thought-provoking story and the central premise is utterly wrong?"

Lehrer was on his way to becoming the next, more modern Gladwell... until the lies starting coming out...

.is on a roll at In recent weeks, profiles of Sally Field, Jonah Lehrer, Tom Wolfe.

Had to listen to Jonah Lehrer on NPR talk about how spot on the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was about memory and I want a knife.

They mostly didn't, but there was the memorable occasion of this bruiser in the Times, from a psychologist

"If [Jonah] Lehrer was misusing science, why didn’t more scientists speak up? They didn’t expect anything better."

“There’s a habit among science journalists to treat a single experiment as something that is newsworthy”

Marketta Brymer liked L’Affaire Lehrer: In Defense of Jonah: It’s possible that this analysis is colored by my…

"Science journalism is crucial for maintenance of funding...why should ppl pay for stuff they don't understand at all!"

Nate Silver has more than filled the hole in our hearts left by Jonah Lehrer.

You Say What?: The passion of Jonah Lehrer, and a people addicted...

I'm also going to write a book called "Outliers" but it's going to be about astronaut diapers and West Point gmail freak-outs & JONAH LEHRER

On problematic role of science journalism, "[it] is crucial...why should people pay for stuff they don’t understand?"

"Hearing from these scientists made me wonder, somewhat despondently, whether science journalism is a useless exercise"

Thoughtful reflection on Jonah Lehrer. Causes me to reflect on what stories and narratives I champion.

"Jonah Lehrer, Scientists, and the Nature of Truth." Exceedingly interesting, thanks

“He was less interested in wisdom than in seeming convincingly wise.” Guess who.

On Jonah Lehrer & modern scandal: His biggest sin? To be at the vanguard of the of the human spirit

Loraine Pion liked We Limit Ourselves and Need to Stop: I was watching Stephen Colbert interview Jonah Lehrer…

The next Jonah Lehrer / Malcolm Gladwell wannabe should take a gonzo approach to the mandatory anecdote section.

Our first JOURNEY Retreat was powerfully magical. Journey II promises to be even more transformational & inspiring. Meet our presenters….

Thought this might be appropriate in the wake of the election.

Anne Fernald explains our need to goochie-goochie-goo at every baby we meet, and absolves us of our guilt. This kind of talk, dubbed motherese, is an instict that crosses cultural and linguistic boundaries. Caecilius was goochie-goochie-gooing in Rome; Grunt was goochie-gooing in the caves. We at Ra...

27 quotes have been tagged as assumptions: Lemony Snicket: 'Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make -- bombs, for...

This is the question psychologists have been baffled by for nearly half a century and we're still on the path of discovering whether brainstorming is a technique that extracts the best out of people or if it's a method that suppresses creativity.

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive." "...by some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating."- Pearl Buck, Winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.

What did Jonah Lehrer's sources think of his New Yorker piece about the scientific method? found out.

"conferences & corporate speaking gigs have helped replace the ­journalist-as-translator with the journalist-as-sage" ✌

"Anderson makes his living... snipping and tailoring anecdotal factoids into ready-to-wear tech-friendly conclusions" ✌

That format of journalism all seems suspect to me, in a Jonah Lehrer sort of way. Nudging truth about to make a good story.

This piece on Jonah Lehrer is superb on the whole "insight"-peddling industry

On the Jonah Lehrer scandal. Certain combinations of capitalism & science lead to intellectual prostitution.

via a terrific piece on Lehrer and idea journalism.

Jonah Lehrer is too pretty to stay mad at.

The disgraced journalist’s biggest sin had nothing to do with self-plagiarism. Or fabricating Bob Dylan quotes. All he did was what was asked.

Quill & Quire » Consequences of Penguin-Random House merger, justifying Jonah Lehrer’s self-plagiarism, and more ^KC

Risco Treets' Official Statement about his plagiarism scandal: Jonah Lehrer, Stephen Glass and now Risco Treets!

Well done critique of Jonah Lehrer & others "of this new guard of nonspecialist Insight peddlers" (TED, Gladwell)

Very perceptive article on the Jonah Lehrer fiasco.

Fallen hero now NOT a neuroscientist Lehrer 'less interested in wisdom than in seeming convincingly wise'.

"When spoke to [Lehrer]…the conversation grew so heated that a [passerby] thought it was a marital spat"

Gladwell on Jonah Lehrer: "only the most hardhearted person wouldn’t want to give him a chance to make things right"

Excellent analysis of the sad Jonah Lehrer affair by Boris Kachka in New York Magazine

y'all should check out Imagine by Jonah Lehrer

Don't agree w/all but good piece on the Lehrer scandal: "He was scrambling up the slippery slope to the TED-talk elite"

"There simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction." --Jonah Lehrer

On page 165 of 279 of Imagine, by Jonah Lehrer

Meta | In June, a writer named Jonah Lehrer got busted for recycling material on a blog at the New Yorker. Lehrer, who specialized in writing about the brain, had been

"Vision begins with an atomic disturbance. Particles of light alter the delicate molecular structure of the receptors in the retina. This cellular shudder triggers a chain reaction that ends with a flash of voltage. The photon’s energy has become information". Jonah Lehrer

So here's a quote I can live with. From the current title I'm reading, "Imagination: How Creativity Works" by Jonah Lehrer, "Dancers make everything better." -David Byrne, Lead Singer of Talking Heads

"If the internet is going to become an accelerator of creativity, then we need to design websites that act like our most innovative cities. Instead of sharing links with just our friends, or commenting anonymously on blogs, or filtering the world with algorithms to fit our interests, we must engage with strangers and strange ideas. The internet has such creative potential; it’s so ripe with weirdness and originality, so full of people eager to share their work and ideas." - Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works.

"A perfect truth or final reading always eludes our grasp ,for reality , Henry(James) wrote ,"has not one window but a million .At each of them stands a figure with a pair of eyes". Proust was a neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer

Abby Smith shared the following link: memory erasure works, part of a fascinating piece by Wired’s Jonah Lehrer on the invention and ethics of a forgetting pill that erases painful memories.

The Internet is amazing, i am reading the book "Imagine" of Jonah Lehrer and was about to recommend it to friend then i found this article about his lies :

Is it a British thing? I can't imagine Jonah Lehrer, Stephen Glass or Jayson Blair being so easily rehabilitated, and with no comment.

Creating a "Fourth Culture" of Knowledge: Jonah Lehrer on Why Science and Art Need Each Other via

Quite funny how incidences of Dylan quotes have gone up after the Jonah Lehrer furore.

going to hear David Byrne be interviewed tonight (by Jonah Lehrer? Or perhaps a sub?). will TiVO the debate.

Jonah Lehrer's next editor, on reading his first draft: "It's fabulist, Jonah, just fabulist!"

I know how you feel. Jonah Lehrer plagiarized an interview with Bob Dylan that I completely fabricated.

Jonah Lehrer, diaereses, Elaine's Ziggy cartoon, and now this. Down with The New Yorker!

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