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...driven by survival, perhaps it owes to differences in women's fertility. "Variations in reproductive success still exist among humans, and therefore some traits related to fertility continue to be shaped by natural selection," Stearns says. That is, women who have more children are more likely to pass on certain traits to their progeny. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
According to co-author Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, society relies on incentives, in the form of rewards and punishments, to encourage people to conform to certain standards of behavior. "Economists and even psychologists haven't been paying much attention to the fact that small changes in our environment can have dramatic effects on behavior. We underemphasize these subtle environmental cues," he says...
...moral transgression made people feel less guilty about it. Other researchers have also tackled the issue of morality and smell, but from the opposite end of the spectrum. A paper published last year in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin revealed that people are more critical and judgmental about certain moral issues when exposed to the vapors of a - ahem - fart-scented spray...
...character of this White House, and every White House, in certain ways, reflects the character of the person who sits in the Oval Office,” said Axelrod...
...feel lucky,’ or they think they have a read on someone when they really don’t,” Ian says. “They’re going to see someone like Phil Ivey [commonly known as the Tiger Woods of Poker] do certain things, not realizing that there might be 50 hands before, leading up to what he’s doing. But they just see this one hand and go,’I can do that.’ And they can?...