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Why It Really Is Better to Give Than to Receive
The Wall Street Journal: The Beatles famously sang money can’t buy love. But can it buy happiness? Satisfaction? Appreciation? These questions surfaced in my mind the other day as I raced to finish—um, I mean
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Babies Picky About Who They Imitate
LiveScience: Babies are famous for copying adults, but a new study shows that little ones carefully choose whether to imitate an adult’s actions based on how credible they think the adult is. For example, if
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Psychopaths are just misunderstood… and they could even be cured, researchers say
Daily Mail: The public perception of psychopaths has been shaped by characters such as Alex in A Clockwork Orange or Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. While they are portrayed as charming, dishonest, guiltless, and in
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Michael Tomasello Honored for Influential Cooperation Research
On December 2, 2011, Michael Tomasello was awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in a ceremony held at the University of Zurich. The prize included an endowment of 1.2 million Swiss francs, which will
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For Creative People, Cheating Comes More Easily
NPR: Five months after the implosion of Enron, Feb. 12, 2002, the company’s chief executive, Ken Lay, finally stood in front of Congress and the world, and placed his hand on a Bible. At that
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Impatient People Have Lower Credit Scores, Research Finds
LiveScience: While patience may be a virtue, a new study is showing that it can also help your credit score. According to research by two economists at Boston’s Federal Reserve Center for Behavioral Economics and