Given recent research about brain plasticity and the dangers of cognitive load, the most powerful tool in our cognitive arsenal may well be design.
The most powerful constitutional power was imperium.
Cognitive dissonance is most powerful and most painful when our self-concept is involved.
This is already resulting in a fair amount of unsurmountable cognitive dissonance, where the most powerful and fortunate members of society increasingly look upon the poor and powerless, and somehow arrive at the conclusion that they are "Nazis".
Ones, Viswesvaran, and Dilchert (2005) say that "Data are resoundingly clear: [measured cognitive ability] is the most powerful individual differences trait that predicts job performance … Not relying on it for personnel selection would have serious implications for productivity.
Parenting interventions, derived from social-learning, functional analysis, and cognitive-behavioural principles, are among the most powerful interventions available and are the treatment of choice for a number of developmental problems in toddlers and preschool aged children [ 23, 24].
Later, with the hindsight of history and computer input, sacrificing the queen appears to have been the strongest move anyway, despite the obvious cognitive and symbolic prohibition against giving up your most powerful piece for seemingly nothing.
The most powerful predictors were those functional variables with identified cut-points, such as ADLs or cognitive impairment.
Gary Klein, a cognitive psychologist and researcher, collects examples like these, and one of the most powerful involves a paramedic who, at a family gathering, told her father-in-law that he needed to go the hospital.
Economically most powerful?
