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Recognition
The New Yorker: One Sunday night in March, 1985, Michele Murray, a sophomore at Texas Tech University, tried to find a parking space near her dorm. In the preceding months, four women had been raped on or near the Texas Tech campus, in the small plains city of Lubbock; local newspapers speculated about a “Tech rapist,” but the police had no solid leads. As Murray parked in a church lot, a man wearing a yellow terry-cloth shirt and bluejeans approached the car. She felt a pang of fear, but at second glance the man seemed harmless—not particularly tall or muscular, with gaunt cheeks and bulging eyes. She rolled down the window. ...
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: The Evolutionary Basis of Honor Cultures Andrzej Nowak, Michele J. Gelfand, Wojciech Borkowski, Dov Cohen, and Ivan Hernandez In honor cultures, people often fight to defend their reputation, even if doing so is personally risky or costly. Under what circumstances is this type of behavior likely to arise?
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Speed Reading Promises Are Too Good to Be True, Scientists Find
There is little scientific evidence to suggest that speed reading offers a shortcut to understanding lots of text.
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Here’s proof you’ll be spending more money in 2016
Wired: Digital wallets have long been considered to be an ideal of modern life. Apple Pay, Android Pay and the other, similar, platforms available in 2016 will mean that we will deal less with cash -- we will be freer, more flexible, spend less time on managing our money, and have a much clearer understanding on what we spend our money on. A sort of utopian era of technological bliss. The queue at Starbucks will be shorter. We won't have to wait to sign the credit-card receipt at the end of a nice dinner. We won't miss the Tube while trying to top up our Oyster cards. And that is just the start.
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Valuing your time over money may be linked to happiness
CNN: Would you prefer a more expensive apartment with a shorter commute or a less expensive apartment with a long commute? That's one of the many real world questions researchers at the University of British Columbia asked more than 4,600 participants in the latest study on happiness. The questions aim to get to the heart of what people value more: time or money. New research that was collected over a year and a half and published by the Society of Personality and Social Psychology suggests valuing your time rather than pursuing money may be linked to greater happiness. Read the whole story: CNN
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Long Before Learning ABCs, Tots Recognize Words Are Symbols
ABC: Celebrate your child's scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognize that a written word symbolizes language in a way a drawing doesn't — a developmental step on the path to reading. Researchers used a puppet, line drawings and simple vocabulary to find that children as young as 3 are beginning to grasp that nuanced concept. "Children at this very early age really know a lot more than we had previously thought," said developmental psychologist Rebecca Treiman of Washington University in St. Louis, who co-authored the study. ...
