According to the U.S. Department of Education, despite having earned higher college GPAs in every subject, young women will take home, on average across all professions, just 80 percent of what their male colleagues do. What’s worse is that a Harvard study found that women who demand higher starting salaries are perceived as “less nice,” [...]
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When given a choice, older people prefer to read negative news, rather than positive news, about young adults, a new study suggests. In fact, older readers who chose to read negative stories about young individuals actually get a small boost in their self-esteem, according to the results. And what about younger people? Well, they just [...] It was an old yellow Lab named Maverick that helped Tom Chiarella through the darkest days of his divorce. Not a soul-searching therapy session or devil-may-care trip to Vegas, but daily, ritualized walks with Maverick who, as it happens, didn’t even belong to Chiarella. “I told my friend, ‘I see you walking your dog by [...] New research by faculty at Rice University, the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) and the University of Minnesota finds that men’s conspicuous spending is driven by the desire to have uncommitted romantic flings. And, gentlemen, women can see right through it. The series of studies, “Peacocks, Porsches and Thorstein Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption as a Sexual [...] Perhaps the single greatest source of mental energy is positive interaction with others. Even if you were the class nerd in high school, it’s never too late to achieve social success. You can develop social confidence by following a few simple steps. Schedule your social life: To hone your social skills you have to invest time [...] We all have our ups and downs-a fight with a friend, a divorce, the loss of a parent. But most of us get over it. Only some go on to develop major depression. Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological [...] |
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