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Have and Have Not: The Widening Gap
The Huffington Post: The late Peter Drucker is widely viewed as the inventor of modern corporate management, although before his death he was discouraged by the short-sightedness of many business leaders. He was especially concerned about the widening pay gap between CEOs and the average worker -- a trend he had observed with alarm for decades. As far back as 1984, Drucker had warned that the pay gap should not exceed 20-to-1. Anything beyond that, he believed, would foster mistrust and resentment and erode the kind of teamwork needed for long-term growth. The actual pay gap today is 354-to-1. So why aren't workers marching and picketing and otherwise complaining about this inequity?
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The Science of Fatherhood
MPR News: Parenting is hard work - we've always known that. There are major biological and life changes that occur when you welcome a baby into your home. Social scientists, however, have been taking a new look at the experience of parenthood. In an article Dr Eli J Finkel in The New York Times, he said the biological changes that a man faces when he becomes a father have long been overlooked: Although many parents happily take to their new role, millions every year respond with despair.
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Here’s One Weird Trick For Identifying Narcissists
Newsweek: How do you identify a narcissist? It might be as simple as asking "Are you a narcissist?" according to a study published today in PLOS ONE. Researchers at Ohio State University, Indiana University-Purdue University and Gettysburg College conducted 11 different experiments, with more than 2,200 subjects, to determine whether it's possible to identify a narcissist by asking a person: “To what extent do you agree with this statement: ‘I am a narcissist.’ (Note: The word ‘narcissist’ means egotistical, self-focused, and vain.)” Participants then rated their narcissism on a scale of 1 (“not very true of me”) to 7 (“very true of me”). Read the whole story: Newsweek
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These Are Twitter’s Biggest Secrets
TIME: What makes us follow, fave, share and—most importantly—keep coming back When I choose someone new to follow, when I compose a new tweet, when I share and favorite an update, I seldom think about the why. My following sessions would probably seem haphazard to an outsider, and my favoriting technique comes and goes from one strategy to another. ... I’ve hit more than my fair share of Twitter wormholes—minutes that turn to hours as I find more and more tweets to read and share. Does that sound familiar to you, too? I figured there was a psychological reason behind the draw of Twitter.
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Poco sonno induce falsi ricordi (Little sleep inducing false memories)
La Stampa: La vita frenetica vi costringe a dormire sempre meno? Sappiate che stanchezza, debolezza e nervosismo potrebbero non essere gli unici problemi cui potreste incappare.Secondo una recente ricerca pubblicata su Psychological Science – una rivista della Association for Psychological Science – non dormire a sufficienza potrebbe aumentare la probabilità di avere falsi ricordi.Per arrivare a tali conclusioni, lo psicologo Steven J. Frenda della University of California ha privato del sonno un centinaio di volontari che hanno partecipato allo studio.
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Brains At Play
NPR: This week at NPR Ed, our series Playing To Learn will explore questions about why people play and how play relates to learning. Why do we humans like to play so much? Play sports, play tag, play the stock market, play duck, duck, goose? We love it all. And we're not the only ones. Dogs, cats, bears, even birds seem to like to play. What are we all doing? Is there a point to it all? The scientist who has perhaps done more research on brains at play than any other is a man named Jaak Panksepp. And he has developed a pretty good hypothesis. In a nutshell, he, and many others, think play is how we social animals learn the rules of being social.
