by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 5, 2016 | Love
“Attractive people are often perceived as more intelligent, but we wanted to investigate how individuals can change their perceived intelligence, regardless of their attractiveness. The solution seems to lie in subtle differences in a resting facial expression...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 28, 2016 | Narcissism
Narcissism lies on a continuum from healthy to pathological. Healthy narcissism is part of normal human functioning. It can represent healthy self-love and confidence that is based on real achievement, the ability to overcome setbacks and derive the support needed...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 22, 2016 | Emotion
Happy people are healthier; they get sick less often and live longer. Happy people are more likely to get married and have fulfilling marriages, and they have more friends. They make more money and are more productive at work*. Wanna be one? Move to Denmark. Just...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 6, 2016 | Attention
Remove the perception of choice and you’re in fact more likely to recoil from cooperation and go a different direction altogether*. Who doesn’t know this? Who doesn’t use it? Many of us. Much of the time. Except my mother, who said about my father: “I always made him...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 26, 2016 | Play
Our ancestors lived in small, cooperative social groups that lived by hunting and gathering. In this world, your life depended on others valuing you enough to give you and your children food, protection and care. The more you are valued by the individuals with whom...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 22, 2016 | Play
From Face Reading to Right Action in No Time At All. When I wish to find out how wise, or how stupid, or how good, or how wicked is any one, or what are his thoughts at the moment, I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 17, 2016 | Play
From Anxiety to Excitement in Work, Play, Love, Life… Have you ever paid to be afraid? Unless you’ve never been to an amusement park, actually you have. Malcolm Burt researched why people around the world ride roller coasters, to the tune of $12 billion a year...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 9, 2016 | Decisions
Not What You May Think… Maybe you think that the harder the decision, the more time you should take making it? Think again. Better yet, you may want to quit that endless thinking, thinking, thinking altogether. Too much thinking. Not just you. It’s what we do....
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 3, 2016 | Narcissism
…and How Not to Be One Yourself Yale researchers conducted a game theory study in which people would either be helpful or selfish, using intuition or deliberative thought to decide which way to go. Bill Hathaway of Phys.Org sums up the results this way: People...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 26, 2016 | Sleeping
And You May be Surprised… How do you feel when you don’t get enough sleep? Okay tired, what else? Maybe guilty (that you will let down your kids, coworkers, boss, clients…). Maybe worried (that your whole day will be wrecked). The Buddha said there were two arrows....
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