How To Be More Charismatic: 5 Tips Backed By Research
me insights about how to be more charismatic from research, with links to the studies: Assume everyone already likes you and they probably will. When you speak in public, use imagery. In general, limit your time at the computer. It can degrade social skills. Guys, consider growing a beard. A course that was successful in making managers more charismatic focused on these techniques: -Framing through metaphor-stories and anecdotes -Demonstrating moral conviction -Sharing the sentiments of the collective -Setting high expectations -Communicating confidence -Using rhetorical devices…
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What does Facebook know about your relationships?
cebook crunches the numbers and comes up with some interesting info on when people get together and when they split up: The days around Valentine's Day and Christmas are good chances to try your luck or breathe a bit easier. The data showed far more people paired up around these times than joined the ranks of the newly single. And: Across age groups, the summer months are bad news for relationships. In 2010 and 2011, May through August were clearly…
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This Increases A Woman’s Ability To Get Sexually Aroused
ercise. Via Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex: Along these same lines, exercise has been shown to improve a woman’s ability to get aroused. Which makes sense: Exercise makes the body more efficient at body more efficient at pumping blood. “So when you get into a sexual situation,” says Cindy Meston, who ran the study, “the response is both quicker and more intense.” (Though it’s also possible, Meston allows, that women in better shape simply feel less self-conscious.…
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Ladies: is smiling the key to getting a man to approach you?
e contact plus smile gets results. Via How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships: The smile's pickup power was proven for posterity by solemn researchers at the University of Missouri. They conducted a highly controlled study titled "Giving the Come-On: Effect of Eye Contact and Smiling in a Bar Environment."15 (I kid you not.) To prove their hypothesis, female researchers made eye contact with unsuspecting male subjects enjoying a little libation in a local…
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Will watching Shrek turn your kid into a creative genius?
ay, it won't turn your kid into Picasso but recent research says it has two things going for it. Green stimulates creativity: According to newly published research, innovative thinking seems to be stimulated by the color green. A research team led by University of Munich psychologist Stephanie Lichtenfeld reports the color of limes and leaves “has implications beyond aesthetics.” Specifically, a glimpse of green appears to activate “the type of pure, open (mental) processing required to do well on creativity…
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Here’s Why Short Women Are More Sexually Satisfied
e distance between clitoris and vagina predicts which women will orgasm during intercourse. A shorter span is better. This distance is often greater in taller women. Via Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex: The vaginal-clitoral distances, he said, turned out to perfectly predict which women would have orgasms in intercourse and which wouldn’t. How much distance? They have a catchy explanatory phrase: "If the distance is less than the width of your thumb, you are likely to come.”…
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Can Facebook predict who you’re going to be dating next week?
a The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World (Hat tip: Allfacebook): As the service’s engineers built more and more tools that could uncover such insights, Zuckerberg sometimes amused himself by conducting experiments. For instance, he concluded that by examining friend relationships and communications patterns he could determine with about 33 percent accuracy who a user was going to be in a relationship with a week from now. To deduce this he studied who…
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The Formula That Predicts How Long Celebrity Marriages Will Last
s. John Tierney reports on a formula created by Garth Sundem, author of Brain Trust: 93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!. Garth, a self-professed über-geek, has crunched the numbers and discovered a better way to gauge the toxic effects of celebrity. Whereas the old equation measured fame by counting the millions of Google hits, the new equation uses a ratio of two other measures: the number of mentions in The…
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