Why You Spend Too Much Money And How To Stop
at our neighbors buy affects what we buy, as does our names, the weather, and the type of floor a store has. Music manipulates us into spending in flower shops and restaurants. Which products are next to each other on the shelf influences what we buy. In fact, one product can catch "cooties" from another. Attractive salespeople mess with our heads too, especially if they touch the products. Truth is, we're more satisfied after buying from good-looking people. Stores use…
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Here’s Why People Gossip So Much
ssip helps police bad behavior in a social network and relieves stress. About 15% of office emails are gossip: According to some estimates, the average corporate email user sends 112 emails every day. About one out of every seven of those messages, says a new study from Georgia Tech, can be called gossip. Negative gossip is nearly 3 times as prevalent: Still, another finding was that "negative" gossip, characterized through a Natural Language Text Processing analysis, was in fact 2.7…
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5 Things You Need To Know About Alcohol, Backed By Research
you want to crack someone's skull, use an empty beer bottle, not a full one. Are you a mean drunk but don't want to get into fights? Take Prozac. Just thinking about alcohol can increase aggressiveness. People who suppress their anger are most likely to get violent when drinking. Force bars to close early and violent crime goes down. Ban liquor and the homicide rate goes up. Alcohol increases aggression because intoxicated people are more likely to interpret things…
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How different are the bodies of female movie stars, pornstars, healthy women, and average women?
a A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire: We analyzed the average BMI and weight of 202 popular American porn actresses under age thirty. In addition, psychologists Martin Voracek and Maryanne Fisher analyzed the bodies of mainstream European porn actresses. The following table compares the BMI and weights of these porn stars with other women. Join over 262,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: An easy way for women to be…
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5 Things You Need To Know About That Wonder-Beverage, Coffee:
terms of what we desire throughout the average day we wish for coffee slightly less than sex and a bit more than alcohol. Regular drinkers don't really get a boost from coffee, they just get their fix. In fact when you haven't had your coffee everything with caffeine tastes better. The strategic use of coffee can make you more persuasive. The smell of coffee actually makes people nicer to one another. The smell of coffee makes women more likely…
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7 things you didn’t know about death:
car winners live longer -- unless they're writers. Rockstars really do live fast and die young. Famous people are more likely to die on their birthday. Lou Gehrig may not have died from Lou Gehrig's disease. The leading cause of death among pregnant women is homicide. Men are more likely than women to terminate a life-threatening pregnancy. Many car crashes are caused by drivers distracted by car crashes. Stop worrying about terrorist attacks and quicksand; voodoo curses on the other…
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10 Ways A Little Kindness Can Change Your Life
ople are more helpful than you think. Expecting others to be selfish can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. How to be kind without getting taken advantage of? Tit-for-tat beat out all the other strategies. Too much trust is better than not enough. Trust people who are expressive. People are nicer where the pace of life is slower. These are the best places to lose your wallet and these are the friendliest countries. More often than not you can trust your gut…
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10 Scientific Insights About Happy Families
bsp; Seeing friends and family regularly is worth an extra $97,265 a year. Being close to your family makes you trust strangers less. We watch TV and read books to simulate relationships. We love our families more as we age. Yes, grandmom's cookies do taste better than anyone else's and comfort food does comfort us. Freud was kinda right about it all being about your relationship with your mother. Being married does not bring you closer to your parents. Having…
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