NOTES

Chapter One

1. Joris Lammers, Janka I. Stoker, Floor Rink, and Adam D. Galinsky, “To Have Control Over or to Be free From Others? The Desire for Power Reflects a Need for Autonomy,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, no. 4 (March 16, 2016): 498–512, https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216634064.

2. United States Mint, 2014 Annual Report, 2014, https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014AnnualReport.pdf.

3. Margalit Fox, “Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78,” New York Times, March 31, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/gary-dahl-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-dies-at-78.html.

4. Shannon Gupta, “Nordstrom’s Leather-Wrapped Rock Sold Out Online,” CNN Money, December 8, 2016, http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/07/news/companies/nordstrom-rock-sold-out/index.html.

5. Alice Dubin and Chris Serico, “That Apple You Just Bought Might Be a Year Old—But Does It Matter?” Today, October 13, 2014, https://www.today.com/food/apple-you-just-bought-might-be-year-old-does-it-2D80207170.

Chapter Two

6. Destin Sandlin, “This Experiment Shows Why You Should Put YOUR Oxygen Mask on First,” ScienceAlert, August 5, 2016, https://www.sciencealert.com/this-crazy-experiment-shows-why-you-should-put-your-oxygen-mask-on-first.

Chapter Three

7. Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, “How Google Attracts the World’s Best Talent,” Fortune, September 4, 2014, http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/how-google-attracts-the-worlds-best-talent.

Chapter Six

8. New England Historical Society, The Boston Herald Rumor Clinic of World War II, http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-boston-herald-rumor-clinic-of-world-war-ii.

9. Gordon W. Allport and Leo Postman. The Psychology of Rumor, Henry Holt and Company (New York, NY: 1947).

10. Nicholas DiFonzo and Duncan Watts, “How Do Rumors Get Started?” interview by Joe Palca, Science, NPR, November 3, 2006, audio and transcript, https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=6429833.

11. Christopher Paul and Miriam Matthews, “The Russian ‘Firehose of Falsehood’ Propaganda Model: Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It,” RAND Corporation, 2016, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html.

12. Eric Anderson, Erika H. Siegel, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, and Lisa Feldman Barrett, “The Visual Impact of Gossip,” Science, 332, no. 6036 (June 17, 2011): 1446–48, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201574.

13. Kevin Koo, Zita Ficko, and E. Ann Gormley, “Unprofessional Content on Facebook Accounts of US Urology Residency Graduates,” BJU International, April 9, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.13846.

14. Maksym Gabielkov, Arthi Ramachandran, Augustin Chaintreau, and Arnaud Legout, “Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on Twitter?” Inventeurs du Monde Numérique, June 2016, https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01281190.

Chapter Seven

15. Wu Youyou, Michal Kosinski, and David Stillwell, “Computer-Based Personality Judgments Are More Accurate Than Those Made by Humans,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, January 12, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418680112.

16. Andrew S. Rosen, “Correlations, Trends and Potential Biases among Publicly Accessible Web-Based Student Evaluations of Teaching: A Large-Scale Study of RateMyProfessors.com Data,” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43, no. 1 (January 8, 2017): 31–44, https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2016.1276155.

17. Jordan Golson, “Tesla Is the Most Valuable US Carmaker Because of Hope, Not Results,” The Verge, April 10, 2017, https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15180402/tesla-most-valuable-carmaker-market-capitalization-ford-gm.

18. Johana Bhulyan, “Uber Admits That It Has Underpaid Tens of Thousands of Drivers in New York Since Late 2014,” Recode, May 23, 2017, https://www.recode.net/2017/5/23/15681706/uber-travis-kalanick-underpaid-drivers-new-york-city-refund.

19. Evelyn Cheng, “Tesla’s First Junk Bond Offering Is a Hit, But Now Elon Musk Must Deliver: ‘No More Room for Excuses,’ ” CNBC, August 11, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/11/tesla-debt-offering-raised-to-1-point-8-billion-300-million-more-than-planned-on-high-demand.html.

Chapter Ten

20. Robert Combs, “I Built a Bot to Apply to Thousands of Jobs at Once—Here’s What I Learned,” Fast Company, March 23, 2017, https://www.fastcompany.com/3069166/i-built-a-bot-to-apply-to-thousands-of-jobs-at-once-heres-what-i-learned.

21. Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren, and Giorgio Topa, “Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm’s Employee Referral System,” Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), May 24, 2014, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2441471.

22. Matt Singer, “Welcome to the 2015 Recruiter Nation, Formerly Known as the Social Recruiting Survey,” Jobvite, September 22, 2015, https://www.jobvite.com/jobvite-news-and-reports/welcome-to-the-2015-recruiter-nation-formerly-known-as-the-social-recruiting-survey.