Are our snap decisions more ethical?
Several theories, both ancient and recent, suggest that having the time to contemplate a decision should increase moral awareness and the likelihood of ethical choices. Our findings indicated just the…
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What’s a quick and easy way to improve learning?
The gestures children spontaneously produce when explaining a task predict whether they will subsequently learn that task. Why Gesture might simply reflect a child’s readiness to learn a particular task.…
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Research Shows Trying To Look Smart Makes You Seem Stupid
Most texts on writing style encourage authors to avoid overly-complex words. However, a majority of undergraduates admit to deliberately increasing the complexity of their vocabulary so as to give the…
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Is artwork of higher quality when we’re not paid to create it?
Via Daniel Pink's very interesting book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Teresa Amabile, the Harvard Business School professor and one of the world’s leading researchers on creativity, has…
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Can you tell which criminals are more likely to reoffend just by looking at their tattoos?
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between prison tattoos and the criminal lifestyle and recidivism. Participants consisted of 81 male inmates with prison tattoos (i.e., prison-themed…
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Are angry people more creative than sad people?
Anecdotes and introspective reports from eminent scientists and artists aside, a systematic test of the putative creativity-enhancing effect of anger is missing. This article fills this void with three experiments…
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What’s a quick trick to help you spend less money?
Via Journal of Consumer Research: To examine consumers‟ feelings of constraint, Spiller assigned study participants to a monthly budget group or a weekly budget group and gave them the opportunity to make…
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What improves performance more: envy or admiration?
Four studies tested the hypothesis that the emotion of benign envy, but not the emotions of admiration or malicious envy, motivates people to improve themselves. Studies 1 to 3 found…
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