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The Rehash Hangover
Oprah.com: Symptom: You can’t stop talking about what happened with your stubborn husband/boss/mother. Causes: This habit is called “co-ruminating,” says Amanda Rose, an associate professor of psychological science at the University of Missouri. She has
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How Raising Prices Can Increase Your Sales
Forbes: It’s every business executive’s worst nightmare: you raise your prices, only to alienate your customers and decimate your bottom line. But what if the reverse were true? Social psychologist Robert Cialdini suggests that in
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Why attack ads? Because they work
Los Angeles Times: In poll after poll, Americans say they don’t like negative campaigning. Yet in the final week of the Florida primary, more than 90% of the ads broadcast were attack ads. That’s not
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The search engine for love
The Sydney Morning Herald: It’s easy to play Cupid when both parties are motivated to find love, writes Nicky Phillips. In the winter of 1959, two Stanford University students used the institution’s room-size IBM 650
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All About Online Love
When Dan Ariely was a teenager, he suffered burns so severe that he spent three years in the hospital. Ariely worried about how his injuries would affect the way he fit in socially — especially
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Numeracy: The Educational Gift That Keeps on Giving?
Cancer risks. Investment alternatives. Calories. Numbers are everywhere in daily life, and they figure into all sorts of decisions. A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological