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The first study of what encourages and deters people from bullshitting suggests people bullshitted more when they felt more obliged to give an opinion, and when their audience was not knowledgeable. Social obligation is more potent, causing people to bullshit even when they know audience knew more.
The first study of what encourages and deters people from bullshitting suggests people bullshitted more when they felt more obliged to give an opinion, and when their audience was not knowledgeable. Social obligation is more potent, causing people to bullshit even when they know audience knew more.
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The first study of what encourages and deters people from bullshitting suggests people bullshitted more when they felt more obliged to give an opinion, and when their audience was not knowledgeable. Social obligation is more potent, causing people to bullshit even when they know audience knew more.
Study suggests your adulthood self-esteem has its roots in the way you were raised as a child - The higher the quality of home environment when aged between 0 and 6 years (warm and responsive parenting; cognitive stimulation; and safe), the higher their self-esteem many years later in adulthood.
Study suggests your adulthood self-esteem has its roots in the way you were raised as a child - The higher the quality of home environment when aged between 0 and 6 years (warm and responsive parenting; cognitive stimulation; and safe), the higher their self-esteem many years later in adulthood.
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Study suggests your adulthood self-esteem has its roots in the way you were raised as a child - The higher the quality of home environment when aged between 0 and 6 years (warm and responsive parenting; cognitive stimulation; and safe), the higher their self-esteem many years later in adulthood.
Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health - Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body's large, leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles.
Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health - Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body's large, leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles.
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Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health - Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body's large, leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles.
Our most enduring regrets may concern not living up to our ideal selves (i.e. not becoming the person we wanted to be), as opposed to not living according to our “ought selves” (the person we should have been based on our duties and responsibilities), finds new research across six studies.
Our most enduring regrets may concern not living up to our ideal selves (i.e. not becoming the person we wanted to be), as opposed to not living according to our “ought selves” (the person we should have been based on our duties and responsibilities), finds new research across six studies.
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Our most enduring regrets may concern not living up to our ideal selves (i.e. not becoming the person we wanted to be), as opposed to not living according to our “ought selves” (the person we should have been based on our duties and responsibilities), finds new research across six studies.
Actualism is a widely-held view in the metaphysics of modality, which represents the philosophical position that everything there is must exist. This is in contrast with Possibilism, which states that there are things that do not exist, but which could have existed.
Actualism is a widely-held view in the metaphysics of modality, which represents the philosophical position that everything there is must exist. This is in contrast with Possibilism, which states that there are things that do not exist, but which could have existed.
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Actualism is a widely-held view in the metaphysics of modality, which represents the philosophical position that everything there is must exist. This is in contrast with Possibilism, which states that there are things that do not exist, but which could have existed.
TIL that there are walls in Scotland that people made during the Iron Age using heat to melt rocks together, but the specific methodology is unknown and continues to baffle scientists. They are the Vitrified Walls of Scotland but can be found in other European countries as well.
TIL that there are walls in Scotland that people made during the Iron Age using heat to melt rocks together, but the specific methodology is unknown and continues to baffle scientists. They are the Vitrified Walls of Scotland but can be found in other European countries as well.
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TIL that there are walls in Scotland that people made during the Iron Age using heat to melt rocks together, but the specific methodology is unknown and continues to baffle scientists. They are the Vitrified Walls of Scotland but can be found in other European countries as well.