5 Things You Need To Know About Kissing
n and women kiss for different reasons. "Males tend to kiss as a means of gaining sexual favors, or as a means of affecting reconciliation... Females kiss more as a mate-assessment device." The odds a woman will kiss her partner on their first date are 1 in 1.85, or about 54%. Most people naturally turn their head to the right when kissing, whether they're left or right handed. Kissing is healthy. Couples instructed to kiss more "experienced improvements in perceived…
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10 Things Most Parents Are Dead Wrong About – Backed By Research
lking back is a good thing. It can make your kid smarter. Never spanking can be worse for children than spanking them. Peer pressure is more often a good thing. You have no idea what's going on in your kid's head most of the time. Reading to your kids? You're probably doing it wrong. Your child is right that more homework is probably a waste of time. There is no need to feel guilty about bribing your kid for eating…
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Does networking make you more creative?
..businesspeople with entropic networks full of weak ties were three times more innovative than people with small networks of close friends..." Via Imagine: How Creativity Works: Ruef then analyzed each of these entrepreneurs using an elaborate metric of innovation. He measured the number of patents they’d applied for and kept track of all their trademarks. He rated the originality of their products and gave them bonus points if they’d “entered an unexploited niche” or pioneered a new marketing method. He…
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How are teenager’s brains similar to those of drug addicts?
alvan noted that the response pattern of teen brains is essentially the same response curve of a seasoned drug addict. Their reward center cannot be stimulated by low doses—they need the big jolt to get pleasure." Via NurtureShock: Is it possible that teens are just neurologically prone to boredom? According to the work of neuroscientist Dr. Adriana Galvan at UCLA, there’s good reason to think so. Inside our brains is a reward center, involving the nucleus accumbens, which lights up…
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Here’s How Men And Women Show Love Differently, According To Research
a The Boston Globe: When men felt more in love, they were indeed more likely to initiate sex; women feeling more in love were actually less likely to initiate sex. And rather than being more affectionate than their husbands, women mainly expressed love by being less antagonistic and more accommodating. Men feeling more in love, meanwhile, were not less negative—but rather showed it by being more interested in doing things with their wives. Also: Studies show that, in general, men…
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Does technology make us autistic?
even Johnson suggests that by stripping away the emotional information in faces and intonation, email and text messaging might be simulating autism. Via Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life: As the brain science of social connection becomes more widely appreciated, our communications tools will be judged increasingly with this yardstick. Attention deficit disorder is conventionally described as the classic ailment of our multitasking age, but when you look at most electronic communication through the lens…
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What simple technique can make a sales pitch 20% more effective?
mic the customer's body language. Via Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World: Despite the rather obvious nature of the copycat animation, only eight of the sixty-nine subjects detected the mimicry (and those mostly because they made a strange movement and then saw the agent making the same unusual motion). The remaining students liked the mimicking agent more than the recorded agent, and rated the former as being friendlier as well as more interesting, honest, and persuasive. They also paid…
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4 Secrets To A Good Apology, According To Research
a Wait: The Art and Science of Delay: Aaron Lazare devotes two full chapters of On Apology and much of his subsequent research to questions of timing and delay. He finds that effective apologies typically contain four parts: 1. Acknowledge that you did it. 2. Explain what happened. 3. Express remorse. 4. Repair the damage, as much as you can. This aligns with previous research on effective apologies: Results indicated that relationships recovered significantly when offending partners used behaviors labeled…
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