Can job insecurity harm your health?
Economic recessions, the industrial shift from manufacturing toward service industries, and rising global competition have contributed to uncertainty about job security, with potential consequences for workers’ health. To address limitations…
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Should you trust your gut when deciding whether a neighborhood is safe or not?
Via Science Daily: It's an unfamiliar neighborhood and you find yourself in the middle of a bunch of streets and buildings you've never seen before. Giving the environment a quick…
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Good Grooming Can Increase Your Income
It is well understood that personal grooming provides an important source of communication about individuals, their values and personalities. From an economic point of view, grooming is a non-market activity.…
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Is “tit-for-tat” the best way to deal with people?
A recent episode of the consistently excellent Radiolab explored the idea, covering the work of Robert Axelrod. Turns out the age old cliche can be an incredibly powerful way to…
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How To Reduce Worry And Increase Performance On Challenging Tasks
Via Eurekalert: Students can combat test anxiety and improve performance by writing about their worries immediately before the exam begins, according to a University of Chicago study published Friday in…
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Here’s How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With
The New York Times has an interesting article on the subject but the takeaway is here: In what was the longest sleep-restriction study of its kind, Dinges and his lead…
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Is expecting others to be selfish a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Via Eurekalert: The expectations people have about how others will behave play a large role in determining whether people cooperate with each other or not. And moreover that very first…
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Do positive expectations and fantasies help you achieve goals?
Positive expectations do. Positive fantasies don't: Two forms of thinking about the future are distinguished: expectations versus fantasies. Positive expectations (judging a desired future as likely) predicted high effort and…
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