Inzlicht and his colleagues posed the Effort Paradox to make sense of this odd tendency: Sometimes we value experiences and ...

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That became known as Peto’s Paradox ... those organisms that are getting cancer more or less frequently than you would expect, it gives us places to start so that we can understand human cancer better ...

Bradley, Elizabeth H., and Lauren A. Taylor. The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less. New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2013.