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From Heavens to Hells to Heroes

... detectors,” a sense of awareness of things that don’t fit, are out of place in this setting, that don’t make sense to you. It means asking questions, getting the information ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... preparing food for storage, child-rearing. Although humans don’t live in bands in the modern world, we should still expect to see some ... and are relatively easy to modify. While modern urban humans don’t live in bands or macrobands anymore, we do have crosscutting groups of ... / more

Are Blonds Really Dumb?

... merely based on their group membership. Of course, we don’t like to think of ourselves as prejudiced. We believe in equality ... always aware that there is something to counteract and hence don’t. Researchers from New York University (Bargh, Chen, & Burrows, ... / more

High Maintenance Interaction

... 2 a.m. yesterday, listening to that whiny ex-classmate I don’t even like. Tasks that require self-regulation are in general ... reasoning. Easy tasks, like memorizing simple syllables, don’t require self-regulation . Most research regarding ... / more

Not Again! I’m Looking for a Job but I Don’t Know Why It Is Taking So Long!

Job hunting is probably the type of experience we all have to face more than once in our life time. Intuitively we can think of the things that influence getting a job; we can blame our communicative skills, ... / more

Engagement: A Source of Value, Quality of Life, or Both?

... , 2000). Easy and simple as this seems, many people don’t actually make use of such rituals, because they think they have too little time to lose or don’t know what they could do during breaks. Even calling a close friend or ... / more

The curse of lovely: How to break free from the demands of others and learn to say no

... and feel like you can talk the whole night or you don’t, which is when you try to move to another table. Regarding Jacqui ... / more

Re-thinking how we think about conformity

... a society, it is in people’s interest to make sure they don’t ruffle feathers; if someone is offended that they didn’t get to ... / more

CEO’s, morality, and minds: How good and bad guide our perceptions of others

... also harm the environment.”   The CEO responds, “I don’t care at all about harming the environment.  I just want to make as ... help the environment.”  The CEO responds, “I don’t care at all about helping the environment.  I just want to make as ... / more

Being rational and emotional are not (necessarily) contradictions

... not saying that other goals, outside of moral motivations, don’t play a role in our political decisions. It seems likely that there are ... are irrational. At the end of the day, I agree that I don’t want my political decisions influenced by disgusting garbage on the way ... / more