5 things you didn’t know about your brain:
u make up your mind about someone in as little as 100 milliseconds. Humor is the brain rewarding us for finding errors and inconsistencies in our thinking. You can tell if someone will get dementia by looking at their face and the size of their head. Amazing sex can cause amnesia. There are a number of other rules the brain works by. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.
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5 things you didn’t know about tattoos:
ople with tattoos may have better than average genes. Having tattoos doesn't mean someone is more likely to engage in deviant behavior or be a criminal... unless they have four or more tattoos. Highly visible tattoos are associated with deviant behavior as well. You can tell which criminals are likely to reoffend by looking at their tattoos. College students prefer professors who have tattoos. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.
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5 things you didn’t know about apologies and forgiveness:
ing reminded of times when they did something wrong makes people more likely to accept apologies and forgive. The best way to apologize is not to apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong. Forgiving yourself can help you stop procrastinating. Women apologize more than men because they find more things offensive than guys do. Apologizing to the police can help you get out of a speeding ticket. Join 45K+ readers. Get a…
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Can being sedentary make you stupid?
tended bed rest resulted in lower scores on tests of cognitive function. This may be directly related to a lack of aerobic physical activity: Introduction: Executive functions are high-order aspects of cognition heavily dependent upon the prefrontal cortex. Both prefrontal cortex activity and executive function task performance are enhanced by participation in aerobic physical activity, suggesting that a lack of such activity during the bed rest model of prolonged weightlessness might induce executive function deficits. Methods: Twenty-four healthy males (ages…
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Does the female “g spot” really exist?
ientists have not found an actual anatomical structure for the "g spot" but there's a lot of evidence that the area may be highly sensitive: Introduction. The existence of an anatomically distinct female G-spot is controversial. Reports in the public media would lead one to believe the G-spot is a well-characterized entity capable of providing extreme sexual stimulation, yet this is far from the truth. Aim. The aim of this article was to provide an overview of the evidence both…
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Are people getting less creative?
nce 1990 IQ scores have risen but creative thinking scores have significantly decreased: The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) was developed in 1966 and renormed five times: in 1974, 1984, 1990, 1998, and 2008. The total sample for all six normative samples included 272,599 kindergarten through 12th grade students and adults. Analysis of the normative data showed that creative thinking scores remained static or decreased, starting at sixth grade. Results also indicated that since 1990, even as IQ scores…
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Is the value of an MBA in the skills you learn or that it signals intelligence?
bsp; It's mostly about signaling smarts: Panel data on MBA graduates is used in an attempt to empirically distinguish between human capital and signaling models of education. The existence of employment observations prior to MBA enrollment allows for the control of unobserved ability or selection into MBA programs (through the use of individual fixed effects). In addition, variation in the amount of pre-MBA work experience allows for a test to distinguish between the models. In particular, a predominant signaling view…
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Can seeing a briefcase make you more competitive?
eing briefcases or other business-related items made people think and act more competitively. Via Stanford: Wheeler and three other researchers, including Aaron Kay and Lee Ross from Stanford's psychology department, carried out a number of studies in which they exposed individuals to objects common to the domain of business, such as boardroom tables and briefcases, while another group saw neutral objects such as kites and toothbrushes. They then gave all of the participants tasks designed to measure the degree to…
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