Psychologists oftentimes encourage athletes and team sports players to talk to and encourage themselves, in order to boost their performances. In a new study, scientists demonstrate that this type of pep talk is best directed towards the team as a whole, rather than any individual member. Doing so helps boost both pe... |
21 October 2011
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Studies conducted on the influence on personality on happiness have revealed that those who tend to focus on positive experiences are more likely to experience greater personal happiness. In a new study, scientists provide an explanation for why this connection exists. Popular wisdom has it that people who tend to fo... |
3 May 2011
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For the average American, freedom of choice is one of the most fundamental rights. But a group of scientists has determined that having this ability may in fact be a very bad thing for individuals and societies alike, due to the type of behavior it promotes in people. The new study, conducted by social psychologists,... |
30 March 2011
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Investigators propose that part of the reason why we take altruistic actions is to minimize the physical effort we would have to make to coordinate our behaviors with others. This finding suggests a hidden, more practical agenda that makes us behave.This type of motivation is oftentimes unconscious, say experts with ... |
10 March 2011
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For a long time, scientists have been saying that making an apology is the first step in the reconciliation process between two people. But a new investigation shows that most individuals are not very good at predicting how they will react to an apology, and how much value they will put on it. This type of investigat... |
24 January 2011
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In a new study, researchers discovered that the way people dance holds clues to some long-standing personality traits that are unique to each individual. In this sense, one may be able to tell a lot about a person by simply watching them dance. The research was built on previous investigations, which showed that the ... |
24 November 2010
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that even slight changes in the social behavior patterns of animals can eventually led to the appearance of massive migrations.Experts say that the variations may arrange themselves in such a manner that they trigger a cascade of events that eventually leads to spe... |
17 September 2010
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Scientists have recently managed to discover a way of calculating the evolution of forces that are exerted inside a crowd, providing new hope that one day large groups of people will not kill some of their members via crushing.This is not an uncommon phenomenon, experts say. Numerous incidents have been reported when... |
17 August 2010
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Some of the cruelest, most unjust actions that groups of people have performed over the centuries have been attributed by various scientists and their theories to what is known as “group think.” This common psychological phenomenon is used to account for the actions that individuals take while inside the ... |
25 March 2010
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According to new data, it would appear that people tend to be fair and trusting in strangers for reasons that are different than the initially-suspected ones. In previous studies, it has been proposed that individuals tend to trust people they've just met on account of the fact that they unconsciously transferre... |
19 March 2010
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Language is one of the things that constantly change, and not over the years, but several times in the course of an average life span. The engines behind these changes are the people, a researcher proposes, saying that the process through which language changes to reflect daily routines and actions is very similar to... |
27 November 2009
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Each and every one of us has thought at some point that the things we hold dear are among the most interesting out there in and of themselves, and that the hobbies and interests that other people have are somehow not that interesting, or straight-out boring. In other words, we view things from a different perspective... |
26 October 2009
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Despite the popular belief that labels the decisions made by large groups of people with traits such as “herd mentality,” “angry mob,” or “mass hysteria,” recent scientific and psychological studies have revealed that larger numbers of individuals actually seem to give more accurat... |
11 March 2009
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