Are men better gamblers when accompanied by a woman?
od and Audience Effects on Video Lottery Terminal Gambling. J Gambl Stud. 2009 Nov 17. [Epub ahead of print] Mishra S, Morgan M, Lalumière ML, Williams RJ. Little is known about the situational factors associated with gambling behavior. We induced 180 male participants (mean age: 21.6) into a positive, negative, or neutral mood prior to gambling on a video lottery terminal (VLT). While gambling, participants were observed by either a male peer, female peer, or no one. Induced mood had…
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Who tips more, men or women?
cording to studies published by Professor Michael Lynn, an expert on tipping at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, tip percentages are only weakly related to customers’ ratings of the service quality they received. For restaurant diners in particular, other factors influencing tip percentage include the size of the dining party, whether or not the customer pays by credit card, and the sex of both the customer and the waiter. Lynn’s research found that men left larger tips than…
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Killing grandma:
dicare spent $50 billion last year to care for patients in the last two months of their lives. As "60 Minutes" pointed out on Sunday, "that's more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education." It means we give liver transplants to the terminally ill, defibrillators to those with untreatable cancer. It means we use lots of money and resources, as if we have an endless supply of both, in order to briefly delay…
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$25,000 > $35,000
til you earn about $40,000 a year, you’re pretty much stuck in poverty, an economists’ numbers show. In fact, until you get past $40,000 a year, any raise or higher paying job you get might actually sink you deeper into poverty. Take a look at this story from economist Jeff Liebman, who now works in the Obama Administration. The poverty trap is still very much a reality in the U.S. A woman called me out of the blue last week…
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What your Facebook page says about you (Video):
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You know what they use for money in some prisons? Mackerel.
a online.wsj.com When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, "I had a stack of macks." "It's the coin of the realm," says Mark Bailey, who paid Mr. Levine in fish. Mr. Bailey was serving a two-year tax-fraud sentence in connection with a chain of strip clubs he owned. Mr. Levine was serving a nine-year term for drug dealing. Mr. Levine says he…
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How to tell if somebody is lying:
are there any reliable indicators of mendacity? Tics - fidgeting, stuttering - are mistakenly attributed to cheats across many societies (psychologist Charles Bond has noted this belief in 63 countries) without recourse to scientific proof. Ditto the avoidance of eye contact - dropping your inquisitor's gaze is often given anecdotally as confirmation of guilt. "Eye contact has been proven the least accurate thing to watch for," says Stan Walters, author of The Truth About Lying. "Most reliable cues typically…
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Men often treat their friends better than women do:
o's more "sociable," men or women? Common sense says it's women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to share intimate information with each other than men. But is that really the whole story? There is also research suggesting that men have larger social networks than women do, and that male-male friendships last longer than female-female ones. A team led by Joyce Benenson conducted…
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