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Spoiler alert: Spoilers don’t ruin stories, after all
Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s dad. Rosebud is a sled. Soylent Green is PEOPLE. Kristin shot J.R. Maggie shot Mr. Burns. And Bruce Willis, a.k.a. child therapist Malcome Crowe? You guys, he was dead the whole
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Narcissists’ Self-Interest Makes Them Bad Leaders
LiveScience: Narcissists may think they’d make for good bosses, but a new study shows that their preoccupation with themselves hinders their performance in teamwork situations. Although narcissists have leadership-related qualities, such as confidence, authority and
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Spoiler Alert! Knowing the End of a Story Makes It Better, Study Finds
TIME: We might have to change the name of “spoilers” to “giveaways.” They may not be that bad after all. A recent study shows that people enjoy movies, books and other stories when they know
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Spoiler Alert: Stories Not Ruined if Ending Revealed
ABC News: Spoiler alert: This story has a happy ending. If it were a suspense novel, would knowing that make you enjoy it less? To their surprise, psychology researchers found that people rated stories higher
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How The Visual System Constructs Moving Objects: One by One
Although our eyes record the word as millions of pixels, “the visual system is fantastic at giving us a world that looks like objects, not pixels,” says Northwestern University psychologist Steven L. Franconeri. It does
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Surprise! Spoilers don’t spoil stories: Study
Toronto Sun: With so many sources of information available to us every day, it’s hard to avoid finding out who won the hockey game you PVR’d last night or how the last Harry Potter book
