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People pick gifts that will ‘wow’ rather than satisfy recipients
Gift givers tend to focus on the “big reveal,” leading them to choose whichever gift is more likely to surprise […]
Category Archives: Life
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Found: A destructive mechanism that blocks the brain from knowing when to stop eating
An international team of researchers has uncovered a destructive mechanism at the molecular level that causes a well-known phenomenon associated […]
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Beauty is Simpler, and Less Special, Than We Realize
Beauty, long studied by philosophers, and more recently by scientists, is simpler than we might think, New York University psychology […]
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16 going on 66: Will you be the same person 50 years from now?
Research suggests personality is both stable and malleable across the lifespan. How much do your personality traits change between high […]
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How people use, and lose, preexisting biases to make decisions
New Columbia research shows that the human brain employs precise, mathematical logic to decision-making, revealing new insight into the brain […]
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Forget the bling: High status-signaling deters new friendships
When it comes to making new friends, status symbols actually repel people from making friends with us, according to new […]
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Our perceived birth status can affect our adult relationships
“You could have learned about your birth status from your parents or sibling, you could have heard it from someone […]
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Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study
The march toward always on technology may hinder groups’ ability to solve complex problems More than a decade after the […]
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Rude to your coworker? Think of the children
When people are rude to their coworkers or treat them badly, they probably don’t realize the unintended victims in that […]
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Why we’re susceptible to fake news, how to defend against it
Thinking and beliefs developed in childhood makes people vulnerable, researchers say Thought processes and belief systems that people develop early […]