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Researchers: Gossip May Have Some Benefits (Even in Schools)
Education Week: Pass it around: A new study shows that while not all gossip is good, some gossip yields real societal benefits. The study, done by researchers from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley
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For Infants, Stress May be Caught, Not Taught
Babies not only pick up on their mother’s stress, they also show corresponding physiological changes, research shows.
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Do the Poor Have More Meaningful Lives?
The New Yorker: Jonathan Safran Foer, in the first chapter of “Eating Animals,” recounts a conversation he once had with his grandmother, in which she described the combination of fear and hunger that haunted her
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When Doing Good Means You’re Bad
TIME: Want to know a sure way to be seen as immoral, unethical and unlikable? Raise $1 million for charity. Want to know how to have people think a lot more favorably of you? Raise
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Besudelter Altruismus (Tainted Altruism)
Suddeutsche Zeitung: Das Leben genießen und gleichzeitig die Welt verbessern, wäre das nicht großartig? Bier trinken und die Umwelt schützen zum Beispiel. Was spricht denn schon dagegen, sich einen Kasten Bier von einer Brauerei zu
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Psychologists: Getting Liberals to Agree Really Is Like Herding Cats
Scientific American: When he was President, Bill Clinton famously (and perhaps apocryphally) complained that getting Democrats to agree on a course of action was like herding cats, while the Republicans didn’t seem to have this