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The male paradox
Calgary Herald: Disturbing male-oriented crime stories were all over the news in 2011. So-called honour killings in Ontario. An Edmonton filmmaker convicted of a lethal luring that mimicked his film script. The allegations of torture
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We’re not like chameleons copying everything everybody does
Yahoo India: It’s common for people to pick up on each other’s movements – scratching your head, crossing your legs – but we don’t copy everything like chameleons, according to a new study. It says
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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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People Mimic Each Other, But We Aren’t Chameleons
It’s easy to pick up on the movements that other people make—scratching your head, crossing your legs. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that
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Workzone: I know what he said, but what did he mean?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Civil society demands a certain amount of diplomacy — even if those rude co-workers in the comic strip “Dilbert” are pretty funny. But planes have crashed and patients have misunderstood diagnoses as a
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How the weather affects us
Wired UK: The weather doesn’t just determine if we should be wearing a thick coat or not — it can have profound effects on the way we behave. You’re warmer and colder towards people depending
