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Do our tastes in the opposite sex mature as we do?
pe: We conducted three studies to (1) investigate individuals’ beliefs about change in mating desires over the course of emerging adulthood and (2) determine whether those beliefs reflect actual variation in mating desires among emerging adults of varied ages (late teens through twenties). In Study 1, 103 men and women gave their thoughts on how college students change, if at all, in what they most desire in a relationship and relationship partner as they move from being incoming freshmen to…
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Will people respond to Christmas cards from senders they’ve never met?
.researchers sent Christmas cards to people they’d never met, then waited to see what they’d do. To make things more interesting, the scientists made some cards look as if they’d come from senders of high status. (In case you were wondering, they accomplished this via the time-tested method of inserting “Dr.” into the sender’s name.) In both studies, a significant number of people actually responded by sending cards, letters, or photos back, often with a personal note saying how much…
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Does America thrive because the poor don’t vote?
e noted management guru Michael E Porter identifies seven unique competitive advantages for the U.S. economy to explain the country’s pre-eminence; they range from (among others) its environment for entrepreneurship, its institutions of higher learning, its technology and innovation machine, to its commitment to competition and free markets. In this article, I argue that there is another critical competitive advantage exclusive to the U.S. that arises from its electoral system characterised by consistently low levels of voter turnout in national…
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Are men better at everything?
ll, no. However, this paper from Harvard Business School shows looking at gender stereotypes might lead you to believe that: Three studies demonstrate how culture shapes the contents of gender stereotypes, such that men are perceived as possessing more of whatever traits are culturally valued. In Study 1, Americans rated men as less interdependent than women; Koreans, however, showed the opposite pattern, rating men as more interdependent than women, deviating from the "universal" gender stereotype of male independence. In Study…
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Are there too many psychopaths in corporate America?
, this isn't going to be some anti-capitalist, internet crank rant. Not all psychopaths are running around stabbing people. Some are quite successful: Despite increasing interest in psychopathy research, surprisingly little is known about the etiology of non-incarcerated, successful psychopaths. This review provides an analysis of current knowledge on the similarities and differences between successful and unsuccessful psychopaths derived from five population sources: community samples, individuals from employment agencies, college students, industrial psychopaths, and serial killers. An initial neurobiological model…
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What do you learn when you analyze the lyrics of the Beatles?
e musical group the Beatles had a profound impact on Western culture during their time together between 1960 and 1970. The three songwriters, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, together and separately evolved in their lyrical styles over time. Using a new generation of computer text analyses, the Beatles' lyrics were analyzed to address how the group changed as a unit over time, how the various members changed in their writing styles, and the overlap in lyrical styles from…
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You just committed murder. What should you do now?
u may want to know how long it takes to dissolve a body. Some insight on how to reduce that aggression level of yours could be useful and along those lines, guys, you should definitely stay away from guns -- unless you use them a lot, that is. (Honestly, there may not be much you can do; you and your family may all have serious brain problems. I'm guessing you were probably a pretty fearless kid.) Now there are some…
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Are women more risk-averse than men? If so, why?
peated studies have shown males are less risk-averse than females, and this difference seems to be part of the reason for the male-female wage gap: We use a Colombian TV game show to test gender differences in competitive behavior where there is no opportunity for discrimination and females face no gender specific external constraints. Each game started with six contestants who had to answer general knowledge questions in private. There were five rounds of questions and, at the end of…
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