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A Gender-Biased Metric Guides Funding Decisions in Psychology Research
How do psychologists gauge scientific impact? One way is the so-called “journal impact factor,” or JIF, a ranking of a journal derived from the number of citations by other authors to all of the articles
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Majority Doesn’t Care Whether Boss Is Male or Female
Forbes: It’s not all Devil Wears Prada out there in the workplace. A recent study showed that “fewer and fewer Americans care whether the boss is a man or a woman. A 1953 Gallup poll
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Il linguaggio dell’amore esiste
La Stampa: Il linguaggio dell’amore esiste, eccome. E non solo esiste, ma sembra essere persino un elemento predittivo di un rapporto felice e duraturo, affermano alcuni psicologi. A quanto pare sia gli uomini che le
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Gender And Humor: Was Christopher Hitchens Right When He Said Women Aren’t Funny?
Huffington Post: Celebrated polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who passed away last month, never lacked targets for his writerly ire: Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal — even Mother Teresa was not immune. But in a polarizing
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Never mix business with pleasure: How the office ogler takes a toll on your work rate
Daily Mail: Being ogled by the office lothario probably makes most women feel uncomfortable. Now, it seems, it might also affect their work performance. A study has found women who were subjected to an ‘objectifying
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Män inte så heta som de tror
TV4 Sverige: Vill hon… eller vill hon inte? Antagligen inte. Män överskattar nämligen sin sexuella attraktionskraft, medan kvinnor underskattar den. Men även om många män är ute på tunn is, är strategin inte så dum
