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Powerful People Feel Taller Than They Are
After the huge 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the chairman of BP referred to the victims of the spill as the “small people.” He explained it as awkward word choice by a
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Week in Ideas
The Wall Street Journal: Psychology Big Shots The figurative big man on campus may think he’s a literal big man, too. To study the effects of power on perception, researchers measured the height of 100
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Why natural leaders are too self-obsessed to be good bosses
Daily Mail: Their swaggering arrogance and natural authority can make it seem like they were born to lead. But, though dominant individuals frequently make it to the top of the career ladder, their self-obsession often
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Better Angels at Work
Huffington Post: In his new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that the world is becoming less violent because of an increase in intelligence and
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2012 Society of Psychologists in Management Conference
The 2012 SPIM Conference and Institutes will be held February 23-26, 2012 in Charleston, South Carolina. For more information visit: http://www.spim.org/conference.htm
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Behind a visionary: The science of Steve Jobs
msnbc: The death of Apple’s Steve Jobs on Wednesday triggered an outpouring of mourning and celebration. As newspaper obits remembered Jobs as a “visionary” and the “Henry Ford of the computer industry,” fans converged on
