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Why We Compete
The Atlantic: It’s said that when chased by a bear, you don’t need to outrun the bear; you just need to outrun your friend. Similarly, to win a championship, a promotion, or a date, you
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Is Modern Dating the Worst?
Science Friday: In 1967, 76 percent of women said they would marry someone they didn’t romantically love. This is a figure that shocked comedian Aziz Ansari while working on his book, Modern Romance. He teamed up
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Longer Acquaintance Levels the Romantic Playing Field
Partners who become romantically involved soon after meeting tend to be more similar in physical attractiveness than partners who get together after knowing each other for a while, according to new findings published in Psychological
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Men Strive To Give More To Charity When The Fundraiser Is Cute
NPR: We donate to charities for lots of reasons: because we’re generally magnanimous people, because we care deeply about certain issues or because it’s the only way to get Meg to stop talking about the
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Software to Sharpen Your Stats
The last few decades have witnessed the growth of SPSS as the statistical software of choice across a wide range of academic disciplines. Its pedigree reaches back as far as the 1960s, when SPSS was
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Just Feeling Like Part of a Team Increases Motivation on Challenging Tasks
New research finds that just the sense that we’re working together with others can dramatically increase our motivation to complete difficult tasks—even when we’re actually working alone. Across five experiments Stanford psychological scientists Priyanka B.
