Can being bad be very very good?
ung women and women who enjoy sex more prefer bad boys over nice guys. The best leaders have a significant number of negative personality traits. Criminals who kill more people get shorter prison sentences. Jerks and sexist men make more money. Being ethical can hurt your income. Narcissists actually are more attractive. They aren't more creative but you'll think they are. It's actually their worst characteristics that you're most attracted to. And they'll do better in job interviews than you…
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10 ways talking like you’re insane can improve your life:
a general rule I don't recommend it but there are a lot of things we can learn from how crazy people communicate. Talking to yourself out loud can make you smarter, improve your memory, help you focus and even increase athletic performance. (Here's what to say and when to say it.) Fast talkers are more persuasive. Repeating yourself makes you more influential. Swearing does too. (All of these together, well, that may be overdoing it.) Babytalk can improve your…
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The Most Effective Way To Change Your Behavior And Improve Your Life
anging your environment is the easiest and most powerful way to change your behavior. Altering the things in your home and your office and carefully picking the people you spend time with will bring you greater and more effortless results than anything else. But you're an objective, self-determined, independent, unique snowflake, you say? No, you're not. Those around you affect more of your behavior than you think. Poor fitness, car purchases, lateness, having children, charitable contributions, divorce and stupidity are…
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Is the smell of pizza the key to creativity?
eep has been shown to facilitate creativity. Researchers wanted to see if they could coax the brain into continuing work on a problem while people were unconscious. Scientists put an odor in the air while subjects were working on a challenging task. While the subjects slept that night, the odor was again diffused into the room. This stimulated their brains to keep working on the problem while they slept. When they awoke they were more creative: Both scientists and artists…
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Do pregnant women who drink alcohol have smarter and healthier kids?
rst off, nobody disputes that moderate, heavy and binge drinking during pregnancy can have serious negative consequences on a fetus. That said... Via Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy: Some studies, usually European in origin, lift the spirits. There's no apparent reason to avoid light drinking, according to one at the University of London of nearly 12,500 mothers and their three-year-old children. Reading the results, I contemplate swapping my wheatgrass for a tequila shot. It…
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Does facing off against rivals increase your performance?
vals do increase performance -- but they also make us more likely to cheat. Via The Boston Globe: Then, analyzing three years of race data, he objectively identified rivals, by finding which runners frequently competed, finished close together, and shared certain basic demographic similarities. Then he analyzed an additional three years of data — including 1,263 road races for 82 runners. When runners raced against one or more rivals, he found, they sped up — increasing their average speed by five seconds per kilometer.…
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The Attractiveness Of Your Real Estate Agent Affects How Much Your House Sells For
nder 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 bad for the selling price of a house. Both male listing agents (those acting on behalf of the seller) and male selling agents (those acting on behalf of the buyer) are associated with lower house prices than their female counterparts. The gender of the agent, however, has no effect on…
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How can you learn to speed-read without decreasing comprehension?
u can't. Via 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior: Equally popular are speed reading courses, many of which promise to increase people’s reading speeds from a mere 100 or 200 words per minute to 10,000 or even 25,000 words per minute (Carroll, 2003). Yet researchers have found that none of these courses boost people’s reading speeds with out decreasing their reading comprehension (Carver, 1987). What’s more, most of the reading speeds advertised by these…
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