The Key To Being Liked And Being More Influential
The key to being liked and being more influential is similarity. You like names better when they are similar to yours. You even prefer brands that merely share your initials.…
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This Body Language Means You’re About To Be Cheated
Via Wray Herbert, author of On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits: Then they isolated the specific cluster of cues that were actually present when volunteers successfully detected others’…
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Does email turn you into a jerk?
Communicating via email (vs. face-to-face) makes people less cooperative and makes them feel more justified in being noncooperative: Two empirical studies are presented that explore how and why e-mail communication…
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The Fast Way To Make Better Decisions, Backed By Research
Take the perspective of someone else. Think about what your smartest friend might do in that situation. We investigated how perspective-taking might be used to overcome bias and improve advice-based judgments.…
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4 Secrets To Being More Persuasive, Backed By Research
1) Give One Reason, Not Ten Via Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons: At a Kinko’s, a customer asked to cut the long line…
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Do salesmen use similarity to manipulate you?
Via Winnipeg Free Press: If your waitress happens to mention her birthday is the same day as yours, or you discover a clothing store clerk grew up your hometown, chances…
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The Attractiveness Of Your Real Estate Agent Affects How Much Your House Sells For
Gender and attractiveness can affect how much a house sells for and how long it is on the market. Via Marina Adshade: It turns out having a male agent is…
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3 Quick Tips That Will Make You More Charismatic
Via The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: Lower the intonation of your voice at the end of your sentences. Reduce how quickly…
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