What does the music you like say about your personality?
a Rob Brooks' interesting book Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World: In a series of studies, Rentfrow, Gosling and their colleagues show that musical tastes powerfully predict people's personalities... By analysing the preferences of almost two thousand people, they found four major dimensions along which musical tastes vary: 1) Reflective and Complex tastes for music, such as the blues, jazz, classical and folk music, tend to indicate that a person is Emotionally Stable,…
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What three things can help you get over a break-up?
bsp; 1) Focusing on someone new: The present research demonstrates that focusing on someone new may help anxiously attached individuals overcome attachment to an ex-romantic partner, suggesting one possible motive behind so-called rebound relationships. A correlational study revealed that the previously demonstrated link between anxious attachment and longing for an ex-partner was disrupted when anxiously attached individuals had new romantic partners. Two experiments demonstrated that this detachment from an ex can be induced by randomly assigning anxiously attached individuals to…
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What determines whether a marriage succeeds or fails?
vorce may have less to do with an increase in conflict and more to do with a decrease in positive feelings. Via Psychology Today: First, contrary to popular belief, Huston found that many newlyweds are far from blissfully in love. Second, couples whose marriages begin in romantic bliss are particularly divorce-prone because such intensity is too hard to maintain. Believe it or not, marriages that start out with less "Hollywood romance" usually have more promising futures. Accordingly, and this is…
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Do rockstars really live fast and die young?
e rumors are true. Via Rob Brooks' interesting book Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World: Mark Bellis at Liverpool John Moores University and his colleagues recently showed that between three and 25 years after first becoming famous, performers from all-time Top 1000 albums in rock and pop music are more than 1.7 times as likely to die as North Americans or Europeans of the same age. They died from problems related to drugs…
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What can Dilbert teach us about happiness?
lbert creator Scott Adams listed his tips for happiness and I was surprised how much they lined up with the research. Links included below to show the connections. Via Dilbert blog: Food - "...I suspect that anger is evolution's way of telling you to go kill something so you can eat. Exercise - "...If you think of exercise in its usual way, as one component of health, or as a way to lose weight, it's easy to skip your hour…
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Do we like people more if they move the way we do?
s. People who move in sync with us seem more similar and that makes us feel closer to them: Although evidence has suggested that synchronized movement can foster cooperation, the ability of synchrony to increase costly altruism and to operate as a function of emotional mechanisms remains unexplored. We predicted that synchrony, due to an ability to elicit low-level appraisals of similarity, would enhance a basic compassionate response toward victims of moral transgressions and thereby increase subsequent costly helping behavior…
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Can you tell if a surgeon is prone to malpractice suits by the sound of their voice?
m said you should listen to the doctor carefully. Here's an unintended reason why she was absolutely right: BACKGROUND: Interpersonal aspects of care, such as the communication behaviors of physicians, are often cited as central to patients' decisions to initiate malpractice litigation. Relatively little is known, however, about the impact of the communication behaviors of surgeons. In the current study, we investigated the relationship between judgments of surgeons' voice tone and their malpractice claims history. METHODS: We examined the relationship…
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Does someone’s blog accurately tell you about their personality?
atever you think I'm like, this study says there's a good chance I'm like that: This research examined the accuracy of personality impressions based on personal websites, a rapidly growing medium for self-expression, where identity claims are predominant. Eighty-nine websites were viewed by 11 observers, who rated the website authors’ personalities. The ratings were compared with an accuracy criterion (self- and informant reports) and with the authors’ ideal-self ratings. The websites elicited high levels of observer consensus and accuracy, and…
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