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Beautiful people more productive: study
Sydney Morning Herald: A new book written by an economics professor at the University of Texas-Austin concludes that beauty brings many real benefits. Daniel S Hamermesh has studied the economics of beauty for about 20
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Cranking Up Your Private Pep Rally
The Wall Street Journal: To summon the “calculated explosiveness” he felt he needed to clinch a motorcycle jump at this past summer’s X-Games, Travis Pastrana cranked up AC/DC’s “For Those About to Rock” before revving
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Greater Performance Improvements When Quick Responses Are Rewarded More Than Accuracy Itself
ScienceBlogs: Last month’s Frontiers in Psychology contains a fascinating study by Dambacher, Hübner, and Schlösser in which the authors demonstrate that the promise of financial reward can actually reduce performance when rewards are given for
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Förderliche Neugier
ScienceBlogs: Neugier ist lästig (“Lass mal sehen, was du da hast”), Neugier ist störend (“Was schreibst du gerade?”), Neugier ist indiskret (“Weißt Du, warum der M. neuerdings immer so früh nach Hause geht?”) Kein Wunder
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Wat maakt een briljante schaker?
Metro Netherlands: Wat onderscheidt een goede van een briljante schaker? Moet je aanleg hebben of is het een kwestie van oefenen? Als we de bestseller auteur Malcolm Gladwell moeten geloven hoef je geen geniaal brein
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Curiosity Doesn’t Kill The Student
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it’s good for the student. In fact, personality traits like curiosity seem to be as important as intelligence in determining how well students do in school.
