Harvard study examines people’s motivations and usage patterns of Facebook and Twitter:
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Why companies should have unlimited vacation days:
cation policies are one of those class of policies that, while designed to set a floor under something–attendance at work in this case–become a ceiling as a practical matter. If employees can’t save up their vacation days from year to year, they try to make sure they use them. In some cases, they do this even they didn’t particularly want or need to use them. The psychology becomes, “They’re mine, after all. I’m entitled to them.” Consider in this context the…
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How to easily improve your ability to detect lies:
micry facilitates the ability to understand what other people are feeling. The present research investigated whether this is also true when the expressions that are being mimicked do not reflect the other person's true emotions. In interactions, targets either lied or told the truth, while observers mimicked or did not mimic the targets' facial and behavioral movements. Detection of deception was measured directly by observers' judgments of the extent to which they thought the targets were telling the truth and…
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A must-read article about health care in America:
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Does power make you hypocritical?
a sciencedaily.com "According to our research, power and influence can cause a severe disconnect between public judgment and private behavior, and as a result, the powerful are stricter in their judgment of others while being more lenient toward their own actions," he continued. To simulate an experience of power, the researchers assigned roles of high-power and low-power positions to a group of study participants. Some were assigned the role of prime minister and others civil servant. The participants were then presented…
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Do mobile phones deter kidnappings?
a economist.com MOBILE phones have allowed African farmers to check the market price of their crop and migrants to send cash back home. Might one of their less familiar benefits be the foiling of kidnappings in Colombia? That is the claim made in a new paper* by Santiago Montenegro and Álvaro Pedraza, two economists linked to Bogotá’s University of the Andes. Colombia suffered a surge in kidnappings, peaking first in the early 1990s and then at a higher level at…
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Is Tetris an effective treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
ashbacks are the hallmark symptom of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Although we have successful treatments for full-blown PTSD, early interventions are lacking. We propose the utility of developing a ‘cognitive vaccine’ to prevent PTSD flashback development following exposure to trauma. Our theory is based on two key findings: 1) Cognitive science suggests that the brain has selective resources with limited capacity; 2) The neurobiology of memory suggests a 6-hr window to disrupt memory consolidation. The rationale for a ‘cognitive vaccine’…
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The business behind illegal drugs in Mexico:
a online.wsj.com Today, the world's most successful drug trafficking organizations are found in Mexico. Unlike Colombian drug gangs in the 1980s, who relied almost entirely on cocaine, Mexican drug gangs are a one-stop shop for four big-time illicit drugs: marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamines and heroin. Mexico is the world's second biggest producer of marijuana (the U.S. is No. 1), the major supplier of methamphetamines to the U.S., the key transit point for U.S.-bound cocaine from South America and the hemisphere's biggest…
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