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C. Nathan DeWall
University of Kentucky, USA www.uky.edu/~njdewa2/home.html What does your research focus on? My research emphasizes the pervasively social nature of human beings, a nature that includes a powerful motivation to form and maintain social connections, a
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Joe Magee
New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service & Stern School of Business, USA http://wagner.nyu.edu/magee What does your research focus on? I study the influence of social hierarchy on thought and behavior, and how
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Better Angels at Work
Huffington Post: In his new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that the world is becoming less violent because of an increase in intelligence and
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How to find true friends (and love) in 45 minutes
WIRED UK: Can you make someone become intimately close to you — even fall in love with you — in less than an hour? Just ask Arthur Aron. Dr Aron — known to friends as
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Can romance be reduced to pronouns?
Edmonton Journal: People have struggled for years to figure out what makes a good relationship. Is it common interests? Argument styles? Face shapes? Now, a Texas psychologist says his study shows how pronoun use and
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How Social Is Social Networking?
I like Facebook. I’ve been signing into the site fairly regularly for a couple years now, and it has become my large extended family’s primary form of communication. It also keeps me connected with friends
