What’s an easy way to get others to agree to help you out?
monstrate that the two of you have something in common: Four studies examined the effect of an incidental similarity on compliance to a request. Undergraduates who believed they shared a birthday (Study 1), a first name (Study 2), or fingerprint similarities (Study 3) with a requester were more likely to comply with a request than participants who did not perceive an incidental similarity with the requester. The findings are consistent with past research demonstrating that people often rely on heuristic…
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What’s the best way to pick a gift for someone?
udies at Stanford reveal you should stop trying to be creative and just get them what they want: Findings revealed that recipients appreciated receiving items from their wish list more than unsolicited items, and perceived the requested items to be more thoughtful and considerate. But in direct contrast, the givers thought that recipients would be more impressed with unsolicited items. And: A fourth study showed that when recipients were explicit about one particular gift they would prefer to receive, gift givers were more accurate in predicting…
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10 Things You Need To Know About Attraction
ing hot changes what a woman finds attractive in men. High self-esteem changes what men look for in women. There's a particular type of male body language that women are attracted to. Attractiveness can make you happier... but it depends on where you live. Women are more likely to have one night stands with men who throw money around. Happiness is attractive in women but not in men. Pride is attractive in men but not in women. The fundamentals of…
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Here’s the best way to apologize
n't apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong: Apologies are useful social tools that can act as catalysts in the resolution of conflict and inspire forgiveness. Yet as numerous real-world blunders attest, apologies are not always effective. Whereas many lead to forgiveness and reconciliation, others simply fall on deaf ears. Despite the fact that apologies differ in their effectiveness, most research has focused on apologies as dichotomous phenomena wherein a victim…
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Guys, how should you speak so women remember what you say?
en take note: If you want women to remember, speak to them in a low pitch voice." Via Eurekalert: ...according to a new study by David Smith and colleagues from the University of Aberdeen in the UK. Their work shows for the first time that a low masculine voice is important for both mate choice and the accuracy of women's memory. The research is published online in Springer's journal, Memory & Cognition. Join over 190,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via…
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10 Things That You Need To Know About Sex
You can probably tell how sexual a woman is just by looking at her. 2) In fact, you can probably tell how orgasmic she is by how she walks. 3) And if she is more sexual, she's also more likely to be bisexual. 4) So few women pay for online porn that a female name on a credit card used to subscribe to a site gets the submission flagged as fraudlent. 5) Is this going by quickly? Time flies when you're reading…
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Being Compassionate Reduces Stress
more compassionate: The present study examined the role of compassion for others and social support in physiological stress reactivity. In this experiment, participants who had previously completed an online assessment of compassion experienced a social stress task in front of either two supportive or neutral evaluators, while their blood pressure, cortisol, high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), and liking for the evaluators were monitored. Participants’ compassion for others interacted with social support condition to buffer their physiological reactivity to…
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What trick can women use on dates to make men more interested?
cent studies have found that mimicking the verbal and nonverbal behavior of strangers enhances their liking of the individual who mimicked them. An experiment was carried out in two bars during six sessions of speed dating for which young women confederates volunteered to mimic or not some verbal expressions and nonverbal behaviors of a man for 5 minutes. Data revealed that the men evaluated the dating interaction more positively when the woman mimicked them, and that mimicry was associated with…
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