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Being single might now be classed as a disability for this unexpectedly amazing reason
We know being single can be a beautiful, amazing, and uplifting thing. Likewise, it can be a difficult, hard, and lonely thing,…
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This new study suggests something so offensive about women with tattoos
This new study suggests something so offensive about women with tattoos (Photo: Stocksy)
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Internet Searching Might Make People Feel Smarter Than They Actually Are
Google makes it easy to pull up just about any information that’s available, but some psychological researchers think it comes with a cost. The “Google effect,” as one team dubbed it, is our tendency to forget information that can be easily looked up. Now a new study adds a new layer to the question of what effects our endless Google-searching might have on us: There’s a chance it’s making us overconfident about stuff we don’t know as well.
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A New Study Suggests That Sleeping on a Decision Might Not Do Much
Related: Knowing How You Decide Is As Important As the Decision The authors, led by Uma R. Karmarkar of Harvard Business School, conducted two experiments in which they brought in volunteers and showed them a bunch of different attributes about laptop satchel bags, each displayed alongside a photo of the bag — some of them positive, some of them negative. The participants were told that all of the information they were viewing was real and that they’d eventually be tasked with actually choosing
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The Two Types of People Who Come to Work Even Though They’re Sick
(Photo: Jamie Grill/Tetra Images/Corbis) During a given day at the office, some people are their normal work-selves, typing away productively (well, arguably), while other people are home sick. Then there’s the third, murky category researchers called “presenteeism” — coming to work even though you’re sick and therefore not likely to be particularly productive. Researchers are curious about which pressures lead people to do this, since there are obvious ramifications both for public health (espe
