How much does a woman’s breast size matter to men?
bsp; Researchers artificially increased a woman's bust size over the course of an evening and tracked how many men asked her to dance: A cup: 13 men B cup: 19 men C cup: 44 men Via Richard Wiseman's excellent book 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute: The woman (who, according to the experimental report, was selected because she had an A-cup bust size and had been rated by male students as having average physical attractiveness) was asked to…
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10 ways to create an environment where people are kind to each other:
eing kindness makes others more kind. Play music with positive lyrics. Scent can be powerful. Clean smells and the odor of cookies both make people behave better. Remind people of their childhood. Keep the area warm. Might want to encourage them to read fiction. Mention god. And religious people in particular are nicer on Sundays. Across the board, people behave better when they feel they are being watched, whether it's an image of a pair of eyes, a security camera…
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5 research based tips for creating an online dating profile that gets results:
Post a photo of yourself with a hot ex: Via Jena Pincott: Both male and female volunteers rated faces as more attractive, desirable, and dateable when paired with hot exes than when featured solo. 2) Guys, a picture of you next to an awesome car helps too: We manipulate the resources of a target male by placing him in an identical position next to three cars of vastly different monetary values that implies ownership of each car. Our results…
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How big is the US trash bag economy?
a Dan Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future: As business writer Polly LaBarre notes, “The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything. In other words, the receptacles of our waste cost more than all of the goods consumed by nearly half of the world’s nations.” Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: What 10 things should you do every day to improve your life?…
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Does discussing abortions and STD’s make for a better first dates?
rcing daters to discuss interesting but more controversial topics made for more enjoyable conversations: Via Dan Ariely: We limited the type of discussions that online daters could engage in by eliminating their ability to ask anything that they wanted and giving them a preset list of questions and allowing them to ask only these questions. The questions we chose had nothing to do with the weather and how many brothers and sisters they have, and instead all the questions were…
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Is awe the cure for feeling time-strapped and depressed?
bsp; Yes. Might be time to visit the Grand Canyon or take in an amazing sunset. Via Wray Herbert: Psychological scientists think so, too, and indeed there has been burgeoning interest in this powerful but neglected emotion. One team of scientists—Melanie Rudd and Jennifer Aaker of Stanford and Kathleen Vohs of Minnesota—have come to believe that experiencing awe may have all sorts of tonic effects, including a better sense of perspective on time and priorities, more patience and charity toward…
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Does rhyme make ideas more profound?
a Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow: Put your ideas in verse if you can; they will be more likely to be taken as truth. Participants in a much cited experiment read dozens of unfamiliar aphorisms, such as: Woes unite foes. Little strokes will tumble great oaks. A fault confessed is half redressed. Other students read some of the same proverbs transformed into nonrhyming versions: Woes unite enemies. Little strokes will tumble great trees. A fault…
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12 things you didn’t know about men:
bsp; Men are better at parking than women. Being too rich and good-looking can actually hurt a man. Then again, marriage may be a bad deal for handsome guys. You can predict how many women a man has slept with by how funny he is. Yes, most TV commercials make men look like morons. Companies pay women more if a male CEO has a daughter. Poor and hungry men prefer heavier women. Rich and full guys like skinny girls. Attractive…
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