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THE CONFIDENCE GAME In much the same way, a strong, enthusiastic, confident speaking style has a power that transcends mere rationality—a power the psychologist Stephen Ceci demonstrated in an ingenious ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

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mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Mlodinow, Leonard [Mlodinow, Leonard]

AT A QUARTER to eight on the evening of September 26, 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy strode into the studio of the CBS affiliate WBBM in downtown Chicago.26 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Carl Hart

Getting ready to go out and party in England while in the air force. In 1986, in the United States there were isolated protests against Reagan—and in the United Kingdom, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Dan Ariely

I KNEW IT ALL ALONG I give a considerable number of lectures about my research to different groups, from academics to industry types. When I started giving talks, I would ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Barash, David P. & Lipton, Judith Eve [Barash, David P.]

Thus far in this chapter, we have tried to make the case that a solid line—based on the Three Rs—runs through revenge to feuding, through the personal to the social, ...

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426 IV. SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES Jensen, L. A. (2005). Through two lenses: A cultural- developmental approach to moral psychology. (Available from Lene Jensen, Department of Psychol- ogy, Clark University, Worcester, MA) ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Norenzayan, Ara [Norenzayan, Ara]

We’re among Friends and Family (and Sometimes a Few Strangers) Why are interventionist and moralizing Big Gods rare in the supernatural worlds of the Hadza, the San, and most other ...

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Figure 9.13. In the famous Müller-Lyer illusion two lines of equal length appear to differ in length. In figure 9.13 the top horizontal line appears to be longer than the ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Barash, David P.

Gossip and “Theory of Mind” Turning now from the visual to the narrative arts, another practical teaching payoff may derive from its role as a vehicle for sharing social information, ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Stefan Klein

Free Rider Game. Four players get to decide how much they want to pay into a common pot. The sum of the contributions is tripled and divided evenly among all ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Elizabeth Svoboda [Svoboda, Elizabeth]

Having a prosocial vision is one thing, but securing the financial backing needed to carry it out is quite another. Zimbardo devotes huge amounts of time to what essentially amounts ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Joseph T. Hallinan [Hallinan, Joseph T.]

Superstition Breeds Confidence AND that, in a nutshell, is the chief value of superstition—it helps us hold on. Whenever we find ourselves buffeted by doubt and uncertainty, a belief in ...

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