How To Kiss Ass The Smart Way
ientific research on how to kiss ass like a pro Yes, kissing ass can help you get ahead. But there aren't many places where you can learn how to kiss ass effectively. Studies have also shown that when it's obvious it can backfire. Ithai Stern and James Westphal did a study revealing the seven techniques you can use to kiss ass that are most effective in moving you up the corporate ladder without making you look like a kiss ass:…
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5 things you didn’t know about kissing:
bsp; Men and women kiss for different reasons. "Males tend to kiss as a means of gaining sexual favors, or as a means of affecting reconciliation... Females kiss more as a mate-assessment device." The odds a woman will kiss her partner on their first date are 1 in 1.85, or about 54%. Most people naturally turn their head to the right when kissing, whether they're left or right handed. Kissing is healthy. Couples instructed to kiss more "experienced improvements in…
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Are publicly visible résumés on Linked In more honest than paper ones?
bsp; Publicly visible résumés on Linked In are more honest for the information that counts: This study explores how Linkedin shapes patterns of deception in resumes. The general self-presentation goal to appear favorably to others motivates deception when one's true characteristics are inconsistent with their desired impression. Because Linkedin makes resume claims public, deception patterns should be altered relative to traditional resumes. Participants (n=119) in a between-subjects experiment created resumes in one of three resume settings: a traditional (offline) resume,…
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Does it make any sense for women to go to medical school?
bsp; If we're talking about financial sense -- maybe not. Most female doctors don't recoup the significant upfront cost of their education: Recent literature has documented that women earn significantly lower returns than men to investing in professional degrees. However, these papers have not addressed the question of whether this gap is large enough to render professional degrees poor financial investments for women. To study this, we examine whether becoming a physician is a positive net-present-value investment for women. We…
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Which emotion increases salaries: sadness or anger?
bsp; Anger. Via The Science of Sin: The Psychology of the Seven Deadlies (and Why They Are So Good For You): One possibility is that expressing anger only brings benefits to those already in a position of power. In another study, Tiedens again showed participants one of two video clips, but this time the clips were of a regular person being interviewed for a job. 27 The interviewee in these videos, a male, talked about various things, including a challenging…
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Does making work seem fun motivate everyone?
bsp; No. For fun-loving slackers, it works just fine. For people who are hard-working strivers, framing a task as fun makes them perform worse. Via Brain Trust: 93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!: So making a fun-motivated person aware of an achievement context makes this person do even worse than he would naturally do. You can’t push a slacker to succeed. The reverse is true too: “If you frame a…
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How can you buy happiness?
bsp; Michael Norton is a professor at Harvard. His book is Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: What are seven things that can make you happier in seven seconds? 10 things you need to know to be happier 8 ways that money can buy happiness
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What 5 things can you do to increase happiness?
a Martin Seligman's book, Authentic Happiness. Here's what to consider doing: Live in a wealthy democracy, not in an impoverished dictatorship (a strong effect) Get married (a robust effect, but perhaps not causal) Avoid negative events and negative emotion (only a moderate effect) Acquire a rich social network (a robust effect, but perhaps not causal) Get religion (a moderate effect) And here's what you don't need to worry about: Make more money (money has little or no effect once you…
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