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Creative thinkers ‘more likely to cheat’ as they can dream up more imaginative defences
Daily Mail: Creative thinkers are more likely to cheat as they can come up with elaborate explanations to justify their actions, researchers claim. The psychologists tested a range of students and found that those with
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Michael Gazzaniga: “Who’s in Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain”
The Diane Rehm Show: Recent research in neuroscience suggests that much of what we do is hard wired.It’s tempting to believe that further research will eventually demonstrate that physical properties of the brain fully control
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How to handle an angry boss
CBS News: New research from a team of Stanford researchers shows that the state of mind in which a person listens to an angry outburst has a big effect on whether or not they actually
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Statisticians can prove almost anything, a new study finds
National Post: Catchy headlines about the latest counter-intuitive discovery in human psychology have a special place in journalism, offering a quirky distraction from the horrors of war and crime, the tedium of politics and the
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Dietary Supplements Instill Illusion of Invincibility
LiveScience: Imagine a pill that can make you invincible to the dangers of smoking, overeating or other hedonistic pursuits? Some people might think such a pill exists at the local pharmacy in the form of
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What’s the best way to phrase requests for maximum compliance?
Business Insider: Men’s Health covers a study in Psychological Science: If a direction seems final, people just accept it, explains researcher Kristin Laurin, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Waterloo. But if there is
