The images that are uppermost in our minds are of a housing crisis.

The questions that come to our mind Will the US become more interventionist or isolationist?

The questions that come to our mind Will the US become more interventionist or isolationist? Could a woman president in the US change things for women around the world? Will the US become a harder place for immigrants and minority groups to live?

We imagine residential streets with one for sale sign after another. Worse, there are images of foreclosures, of families being evicted from their homes, their furniture and belongings on the street.

When people nowadays speak of nationalism, sinister images from another era come to mind.

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These might sound like the same thing, but they are not.

SHANGHAI When you think about centers of technological innovation, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Seoul are probably the first places that come to mind.

But we tend to retain into adulthood the same views of God that we formed in childhood.

It is really hard for democracy to make its way to our brains!

OK, now, I'm not hypnotizing you, I'm merely placing you in a heightened state of synchronicity, so our minds are along the same lines.

Mubarak, (blessed) kareem (generous) or peaceful, are the usual words that come to mind during Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting when families and communities joyfully come together to pray and break their daily fasts.

But maybe this image is just a bit too vivid in our imaginations.

NEW YORK Nothing concentrates the mind like a full blown crisis.

Here, the savings bank movement in the United Kingdom and Europe in the nineteenth century, and the microfinance movement pioneered by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in the twentieth century, comes to mind.

A behavioral metric of what intelligence is, and this has stuck in our minds for a long period of time.

We must therefore answer a number of critical questions that are constantly on our minds.

Like traditional myths, such graphic, shared images embody fears that are deeply entrenched in our psyche.

To that end, we should keep in our memory all that took place during those horrible years.

Indeed, the talk nowadays of currency wars leading to trade wars is reminiscent of the disastrous experience of the 1930 s.

The image of a bank run, of long lines of angry people lining up outside a failed bank, was briefly on our minds after the Northern Rock failure in Britain.

When I was 15, and I called my father to tell him that I had fallen in love, it was the last thing on either of our minds to discuss what the consequences were of the fact that my first love was a girl.

The constant image we have of this part of the world is that of a region beset by violence, destitution and a constant lack of security.

The memories of the war must not grow dim, but should become a stern lesson for our generation and for generations yet unborn.

Peace will need to be cultivated in a holistic manner, both in terms of ideology and of real practice, both in our minds and on the ground.

So, this is an example of how this idea that the quickness with which things come to mind can give you a sense of their probability how this idea could lead you astray. It's not just puzzles, though.

I made it a year ago. And just how meanings change, and there were a terrible thing that has happened, but the fear is lurking around in our minds prior to that.

Climate change is equated with global warming, but much more than warming is involved.

While we must focus on those long term objectives, we must also not lose sight of the imperatives of our time.

The psychology of the markets is dominated by the public images that we have in mind from day to day, and that form the basis of our imaginations and of the stories we tell each other.

Before voting for the draft resolution, we should keep in mind some practical consequences of creating new permanent seats.

Obama is consistently criticized for his otherness and his arrogance, terms that call to mind the image of the uppity nigger from the days of segregation, which are actually not so far in America s past.

If home prices continue to decline in the United States and possibly elsewhere, there could be many more vivid images.

The nexus between security and development and the importance of addressing both when building lasting peace are facts that we constantly need to keep in mind.

If one substitutes war for soccer, the comparison that comes to mind is that of the aging French military establishment, behind the Maginot Line in 1940, unable to confront General Heinz Guderian s masterful command of blitzkrieg tank attacks.

So are people wrong to support the Tibetan cause? Should we dismiss it as sentimental nonsense?

They re powerful tools for transformation, for quieting down our mind and bodies to allow us to experience what it feels like to be happy, to be peaceful, to be joyful and to realize that it s not something that you pursue and get, but rather it s something that you have already until you disturb it.

And this is so deep seated in our psyche that when we're presented with a progress bar and presented with easy, granular steps to take to try and complete that progress bar, we will do it.

Instead, we have stereotypes about how real rape victims must look and act in order to be taken seriously.

The second reason is that nothing has been done to address the problem of current account imbalances. Indeed, the talk nowadays of currency wars leading to trade wars is reminiscent of the disastrous experience of the 1930 s.

To start the discussion, we played a little game of word association with the term terrorist and the responses were ISIS, violence against civilians, heart wrenching, darkness, mass murder, fear mongering, and politics.

Images like this, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, have been seared into our consciousness during the twentieth century and have given us a new understanding of who we are, where we've come from and the times we live in.

But an alternative explanation, consistent with the facts of biology and geology, is that over millions of years we have evolved a moral faculty that generates intuitions about right and wrong.

Interest rate increases will deliver a fresh dose of reality the interest expense of owning a home is going to claim a larger share of family budgets, a hard fact that will eventually sink into our thinking.

Ultimately, consumer and business confidence are mostly irrational. The psychology of the markets is dominated by the public images that we have in mind from day to day, and that form the basis of our imaginations and of the stories we tell each other.