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Gratitude is good for your wealth
CBS News: Market pundits have long lamented the devastating impact that impatience has on your wealth. Whether it’s chasing the performance of last year’s hot funds, overspending on credit cards, or simply going for the
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Oxytocin Boosts Dishonesty
The Scientist: The hormone oxytocin is usually associated with positive traits like trust, cooperation, and empathy, but scientists have now found that it can make people more dishonest when their lies serve the interests of
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3 Emotions at the Root of Success
Inc.: Yesterday, the final piece of a puzzle fell into my lap, a puzzle I’ve been working on for the past 10 years. I’ve been trying to build a model for how emotions create success
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Feeling Grateful Makes You A Better Saver And Investor, Study Shows
Forbes: How were you feeling the day you had to turn in the form telling your benefits department what percent of your salary you wanted to set aside for your 401K? Or the time you
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Why do humans laugh? (Hint: It’s rarely because something’s funny.)
Slate: On Jan. 30, 1962, three schoolgirls started giggling in a boarding school classroom in the northeastern corner of what is now Tanzania—and touched off a very strange epidemic. The three couldn’t stop laughing—and soon
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Can Gratitude Reduce Costly Impatience?
The human mind tends to devalue future rewards compared to immediate ones — a phenomenon that often leads to favoring immediate gratification over long-term wellbeing. As a consequence, patience has long been recognized to be
