In part, some countries are just more salient to Western observers.
But it may be more salient to ask why most video games are set in so few genres to begin with, and whether that's changing.
One kind of strategy involves increasing the relative utility of the reflective commitment, that is, making it more salient to you in whatever kind of way.
Together, these facts suggest that our reasons for punching will always be more salient to us than the punches themselves — but that the opposite will be true of other people's reasons and other people's punches.
What it boils down to on many levels, according to Surowiecki, is that the present is more salient to us than the future is; distractions are appealing because they're fresh, and future benefits are hazy while present costs are vivid.
And while much of the discussion about economic inequality has centered on the top 1percentt, it's the gap between the top 20percentt and the rest that's more salient to young people.
For instance, inferences about an individual, learned through observations over time, may allow a system to automatically set more appropriate default privacy settings or redesign security mitigations so as to appear more salient to that individual.
Despite the increasing amount of born digital material, I speculate that these issues will become more salient to research, and that libraries have a role to play in addressing them.
These three settings each includes a consideration that makes the costs of injuries more salient to managers and workers, which makes it more difficult to lose sight of safety considerations when pursuing financial targets.
The answer lies, at least in part, in those above-mentioned emotions, which, as psychological research shows, make the plight of a single identifiable individual much more salient to us than that of a large number of people we cannot identify.
William Niskanen of the Cato Institute has argued, persuasively in my view, that serious spending cuts only happen in tandem with tax increases, and he suggests that this has to do with making the burden of public spending more salient to voters.
