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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How To Feel Attractive
rious how to feel attractive? Have a drink. Or just think you're having a drink: This research examines the role of alcohol consumption on self-perceived attractiveness. Study 1, carried out in a barroom (N= 19), showed that the more alcoholic drinks customers consumed, the more attractive they thought they were. In Study 2, 94 non-student participants in a bogus taste-test study were given either an alcoholic beverage (target BAL [blood alcohol level]= 0.10 g/100 ml) or a non-alcoholic beverage, with…
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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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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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The Best Way To Dress When You Want To Influence Someone
search shows you should either: 1) Dress formally or, 2) Dress like they do: Via The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: In the 1970s, when young adults’ dress styles tended to fall into either the “hippie” or the “straight” category, researchers experimented with the effects of clothing choice. They approached college students on a campus, sometimes wearing hippie clothes and other times wearing straight clothes, and asked for change to make a…
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Here’s What Your Voice Tells Others About You
ople judge you by your voice in many ways. Via Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior: The result: speakers with higher-pitched voices were judged to be less truthful, less emphatic, less potent, and more nervous than speakers with lower-pitched voices. Also, slower-talking speakers were judged to be less truthful, less persuasive, and more passive than people who spoke more quickly. “Fast-talking” may be a cliché description of a sleazy salesman, but chances are, a little speedup will make…
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Are fist bumps, high fives, chest bumps, head grabs and half hugs the key to team performance?
he teams that touched the most cooperated the most, and won the most." Via Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior: So are touchy-feely people more successful at getting things done? There is no data on whether bosses who dole out the occasional pat on the head run a smoother operation, but a 2010 study by a group of researchers in Berkeley found a case in which a habit of congratulatory slaps to the skull really is associated with…
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