Could good-looking staff be bad for business?:
ve you ever walked in to a shop, taken one look at the gorgeous assistant wearing the clothes you were about to try on and quickly decided to leave? Apparently if you're a woman you're not alone. Research from the University of South Australia may give retailers cause to rethink their strategy of hiring good-looking young women as sales staff. PhD researcher Bianca Price decided to investigate, after being intimidated while she was out shopping. Her findings were published in…
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Great illustration of US daily data consumption:
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Are we more sympathetic when people’s problems are due to a disease?:
1997, Prof. Sheila Mehta from Auburn University Montgomery in Alabama decided to find out if the “brain disease” narrative had the intended effect. She suspected that the biomedical explanation for mental illness might be influencing our attitudes toward the mentally ill in ways we weren’t conscious of, so she thought up a clever experiment. In her study, test subjects were led to believe that they were participating in a simple learning task with a partner who was, unbeknownst to…
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Afraid of roller coasters? You’re more likely to get brain damage from a pillow fight:
other paper compared head motions that occurred in 4 participants when they rode 3 different roller coasters at Six Flags, drove bumper cars, and had a pillow fight (Pfister et al., 2009). What are the implications for brain injury? they asked. The 18 mph (8.1 m/s) car crash simulation resulted in the highest measurements of linear acceleration, linear velocity, and rotational velocity of the head. The highest level of rotational acceleration was measured during the pillow fight. Interestingly, the pillow…
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Why are some more concerned with sexual fidelity and others with emotional fidelity?
a psychologicalscience.org As the scientists reported on-line in the journal Psychological Science this week, avoidant types—those who prize their autonomy in relationships over commitment—were much more upset about sexual infidelity than emotional infidelity. And conversely, emotionally secure volunteers—including secure men—were much more likely to find emotional betrayal more upsetting. But here’s the interesting twist. Just like all the earlier studies, Levy and Kelly found clear evidence of a gender difference in jealousy style. In other words, men are indeed preoccupied with…
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Psychological profile of a terrorist:
a nytimes.com Despite the lack of a single terrorist profile, researchers have largely agreed on the risk factors for involvement. They include what Jerrold M. Post, a professor of psychiatry, political psychology and international affairs at George Washington University, calls “generational transmission” of extremist beliefs, which begins early in life; a strong sense of victimization and alienation; the belief that moral violations by the enemy justify violence in pursuit of a “higher moral condition;” the belief that the terrorists’ ethnic,…
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Why Americans hate their jobs:
re and more Americans are miserable in their jobs. The Conference Board research group found that only 45 percent of people are satisfied at work, the lowest percentage since the survey started in 1987 (when the figure was 61 percent). The Conference Board's Linda Barrington says the results are "not about the business cycle or one grumpy generation," but rather point to "something troubling about work" in this country. What does it mean that most Americans now hate their jobs?…
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How online life distorts privacy rights for all:
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