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Edge of Thorns 3 - Pt 45Part 45There was no way... he had to be lying. He couldn't bring Marni back. Nathan didn't want to believe it, didn't want to hope it could be true. Yet, at the same time, he knew the angel wasn't lying. Raphael couldn't lie. But... could it really be true?"I don't understand," Nathan breathed, shaking his head, trying not to let his words shake him. He looked up and met his gaze. "How?"Raphael seemed to relax while he held his hands open to him. "I, like Gabriel, am Death. I can undo what has been done. It is as simple as that. I do not know for certain why Gabriel has not told you this, but I can guess that it has to do with your test. Losing Marni is what has challenged your will to live. Promising to return her to you makes it all too easy to forget why you are really being tested.""They didn't even want to tell me that before." Nathan rubbed his temples. "The only reason I know why I'm being tested is because Alton got hurt, and Gabriel let it slip. I don'
Echoes - Episode 12: The SpyEpisode 12: The Spy"Alistair."Parker was so shocked, it was all he could do to utter his name. His legs felt weak, and he barely managed to keep himself steady as he sank to the ground. "I... I thought you were my friend...""Yeah? Well, so did I," the conman quipped back. "Up until recent events proved me wrong."The wizard was stunned into silence, unable to cope with this sudden treason. Artemis, however, readily stepped forward, eyes narrowed and sword drawn. "You realize you're giving me ample reason to kill you now."Alistair laughed. "So? As if you haven't been working on reasons already...""Why?"Snow's query was so soft, it could have gone unheard, but she stared at him so desperately it was impossible not to notice. Parker might have been shocked, and Artemis angry, but she was hurt, and seeing him beside the very warlock they'd been tracking... all she could do was mutter her question again. "Why?"The smile seemed to twitch ever so slightly, but it didn't fade as
Edge of Thorns 3 - Pt 44Part 44Not now. God, please, not now..."Not now," Nathan muttered, shaking his head. "Not now, Susan. Please, I don't want to talk about it...""Don't want to talk about it?" Susan snapped back, her voice cracking. "This is the first thing you should have talked about! You could have at least been upfront about it from the start so I didn't even bother...""I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!"He didn't give her a chance to recover from his sudden outburst, jumping to his feet and rushing out of the auditorium before anyone could stop him. Nathan ran as fast and as far as his feet would carry him, not caring where he was going or who would try to follow him. He hoped no one would follow him. He didn't want to answer any questions about anything, but especially not about Marni. When he was at last out of breath, he crouched down and buried his head in his hands. It was only while he slowly began to calm that he realized what he had done."I'm sorry," Nathan brea
Edge of Thorns 3 - Pt 43Part 43I don't want to hurt her feelings, but I don't want her to get the wrong impression by going out to lunch with her alone...Nathan rubbed his neck again, but then reached over and gave Susan's shoulder a gentle squeeze. "If we leave for lunch, we might miss the announcement," he said, trying to soften the blow. "Let's let Rita order this pizza and wait it out. And besides, if she's willing to pay...""PIZZA FOR EVERYONE!"It had only taken that one note of approval from the writer to have Rita standing on a chair, making her announcement. Her declaration was met with a mixture of confusion and mild applause as she hopped down and set about placing the large order. Susan, for her part, sighed and sat down, propping her elbows on her knees. Nathan knew she was disappointed."Hey..." He sat down next to her and turned her way, even though she still looked at the ground. "Susan, I know you wanted to go out, but...""It's not that." Her cheeks darkened as she lifted he
Edge of Thorns 3 - Pt 42Part 42Better see what's going on. There has to be a reason she's here again.Rubbing his hand across his face, he looked around to see if anyone had noticed before he got up from his seat and went over to the woman, sitting down beside her. "What are you doing here, Avaritia?" Nathan asked, his tone hushed. "I thought Lumiel locked you away.""He did," she told him with a wide, bubbly smile while she bounced in her seat. "But he said he needed me here, so I'm here!""That doesn't make any sense...""Hey!" She pouted at him and poked him in the chest. "I don't make the rules. I just play by them. If my sisters are becoming too much for him to control...""Why would he enlist one of them?" Nathan cut in, looking back at her. "Alton's not stupid (or at least I hope he isn't). When your sisters are working against him, why would he trust you to help him?"The Sin sighed and crossed her arms. "I don't know. It's not like I have any motives against him. Maybe th
Edge of Thorns 3 - Pt 41Part 41I should at least go to the auditions with her. She knows I'm not busy."Alright," Nathan agreed with a chuckle. "Just let me get dressed. And really, don't worry about lunch. I'm fine without it.""Oh. Okay." Susan giggled nervously. "I'll meet you in front of your apartment in a few?""Sounds like a plan."A few minutes later, as promised, Susan arrived in her car. She'd dressed in a pair of skinny jeans and a black and purple striped top the fell loosely over her shoulders, and she gave Nathan a shy smile as he hopped in on the passenger's side, carefully tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. "So, you're sure you don't want to do lunch after? There's a really nice pizza place within walking distance of the theater.""I'm good, thanks," he said, trying not to disappoint her, but really not wanting to go. He was getting nervous just going to this audition, even though he wasn't the one trying out. "So, you're trying for a back-up singer in Enya's band, huh? Ev
Creepypasta x Half Wolf!Reader [Part 8]"I never would have thought that a girl would be good at this," BEN mumbled, tossing a handful of popcorn into his mouth. He cast a sideways glance to the young female beside him, who was staring at the TV screen with a triumphant look. "I mean, we got up to round 47," he continued. "I usually can't even get past 10."[Your Name] turned her head and smiled happily at him. "I really like games like this," she giggled. "I've always found them really fun!""So have I," he commented. "And you know... We would have survived if you had just came over and revived me when I was down--"The young girl frowned. "It's not my fault if you die every ten seconds and there's a huge-ass swarm of zombies behind me.""Ten seconds?" BEN repeated. "I do believe that I survive longer than that.""BEN.""What?""You died in the first round.""IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT I LIKE TO DIVE DOWN STAIRCASES. IT WASN'T MY FAULT THAT THERE WAS LIKE FIVE OF THEM ZOMBIES WAITING FOR ME EITHER.""It was rather amusing to wa
Observers- BBC Sherlock x Reader Chpt. 5It was only a couple of hours before John looked up from his computer to find you dozed off, pencil in hand, the activities of the day finally catching up with you. He slid the sketchbook off your lap, glancing briefly at your work- an array of sketches of him, Mrs. Hudson, the head, and quite a few of Sherlock- before setting it and the pencil on the table beside you.You stirred when he did, groggily mumbling, "Just let me sleep here," as you pulled yourself into a ball around your hand and shifted to rest your head on the arm of the chair."You could take my room." John offered, to which you grunted and rolled so your back was to him.He gave a half smile, ever since you were a kid you had liked to sleep curled up in an armchair because you felt safe in the small space. He covered you with a blanket and then went to bed himself, leaving you in his chair and Sherlock on the couch with his eyes closed.Once John was gone his eyes snapped open and he examined yo
Coincidences- Bruce x Reader Chpt. 3While Bruce processed this, you hip bumped Tony, "Mind if I set up Eva?"Tony grinned, "I think Jarvis would find a way to murder me in my sleep if I said no.""That is a fair assumption sir." came the AI's response.You laughed, pulling a small tablet from your shoulder bag to flick at its screen happily.Bruce looked between you and Tony, hundreds of questions crowding his brain, "I didn't know that you have a sister."Tony gave a secretive smirk, "Not many people do. Shame really. Would you look at how adorable she is? She's like a female version of me."You rolled your eyes, "I'm much prettier than you Tony."Your brother's eyes narrowed, " Because you've had a rough day and I am so excited that you're here, I'm going let that one slide.Bruce spoke up again, "How did she end up in England and not here with you?"You answered this time, try
Observers- BBC Sherlock x Reader Chpt. 7You followed your brother closely as the three of you walked through the police station, trying not to get distracted by all the things there were to see. It was ridiculously difficult so you tried focusing on the people that you came upon as you walked instead of the stationary things that were tempting to stop and look at.You were examining a woman with a mess of curly hair that was giving off a rather bitter vibe when John stopped in front of you and you ran straight into his back at full speed. You tumbled backwards to the floor, holding a hand over your nose as you softly cursed, "Merde… of all the bloody…"Sherlock was looking down at you in an unamused way as John extended a hand. You blushed bright red and shook your head, getting up by yourself to examine the floor, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to embarrass you in front of… well everyone."Sherlock's face softened and John wrapped an arm around you with a frown,
Kaoru's Crazy Fan Pt. 1"Thank you, come again." Rose said with a bow as an elderly couple left the diner she worked at. She had long red slender hair that twisted around and rested on her left shoulder and she wore a simple waitress outfit consisting of a black shirt with a white apron with a blue skirt with nude pantyhose and comfy flat shoes."Your shift is up Rose." A man yelled out behind a counter as Rose gave a long relieving sigh."Thanks Jim." She said whipping off her dirty apron and grabbed her purse along with something to eat. Not wanting to wait till she got home, Rose made her way into the nearby court house to watch a trial as she ate her sandwich. She slipped inside the court room and stay to the back to not draw attention to herself as she began to nibble away at her ham and cheese.As she waited for things to get going, her mind wondered off when she would find someone special to share her time with, something to look forward to when she got home instead of a empty house. She was currently
realidad sin cadenas--Capitulo 19- Fiole - fanficcapitulo 19 : El laberinto de Marshall Lee-¡Marshall! ¡Estás sangrando mucho!- decía una voztodo se volvió confuso y negro , marshall sintió que un cansancio le invadía el cuerpo, pero lo que sintió que mas le pesaba , era el dolor sobre su alma.Había una pesada presión en su pecho. Casi no podía respirar. Pensó que el dolor repentino en su corazón ya no podía ser más desgarrador de lo que ya era. Le dolía muy profundamente y no podía gritar.entonces ,sintió una sombra que la rodeaba. Tenía miedo; intento correr por su vida, pero antes de que pudiera escapar una mano fría alcanzó su muñeca y finalmente dio un alarido.¡ FIOOOOOOOOOOONNAAA! – gritó Marshall despertando de su pesadilla – sus mejillas estaban cubiertas de lágrimas y su pecho le dolía como nunca antes. -
Observers- BBC Sherlock x Reader Chpt. 6You came back burdened with glorious groceries, carefully balancing around a third of them on the forearm connected to your injured hand so it could still be useful but not actually have to do any of the work.No sooner than you had stepped through the door with a huff, your phone let out a cry for attention and you spun slightly in its direction as if that would free your hands so you could retrieve it from you pocket.You scrunched up your face and hoped John was close since Sherlock wasn't likely to move from the couch to get it for you, "JOHN!"He popped his head out from the kitchen, his eyes widening slightly at the mass amount of things you had, and you let out a relieved sigh, "Oh good. Would you please get my phone? It could be important."He approached you, hands hovering hesitantly as he tried to locate it before determining where it was and pulling it from you pocket to quickly answer it. He gaped at the pace the person on the other end started
dark France x reader my precious *teacher's pet*13"what?" you all said when you heard Mr. Kirkland, "are you joking?" one of them said, not taking the matter seriously."I'm afraid not, the last time they were seen by their parents was after school, their parents got worried because they went to their rooms and they weren't there, they were grounded so their parents thought they just escaped to go and hang our with friends but they never came back home after hours of waiting they called the police, and this morning they called the school and talked to us about it asking us if we knew something, I don't know if you being their classmates talked to them yesterday or saw them, so we are here to ask you if you know anything, we are sorry for have to come and tell you this, in this way but they're missing sense yesterday at 5:00Pm so, I think if anyone has something to say, please come to my office ok?" he said deadly serious."yes Mr.Kirkland" you all said."good, I will be on my office if
BBC Watson x Reader Chpt. 33- Three Little WordsYou were contently encircled by John's arms under the covers of his bed, both of you just quietly enjoying the presence of the other and the feel of skin against skin, when he suddenly spoke, "Is it safe to assume you won't be sleeping on the couch anymore?"You nodded."Do you still want to move out?" he followed up.You shook your head, "And miss out on waking up to your adorable face every morning? I think not."He chuckled, squeezing you to him so he could kiss your forehead, "Good."It went quiet again for a minute and then you turned to rest your chin on his chest so that you could look at him, "John?"He brought his chin down so he could see your face and panicked slightly, tightening his grip on you. The expression on your face was similar to the one from when he'd kissed you for the first time, the one that you'd had just before you went completely logic crazy."(F/n) whatever it is we ca


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By Jason Hensel February 14, 2013
Not every company has an Iron Man, but many have a Tony Stark—a highly powerful, intensely-focused individual who often ignores risk in order to achieve his or her goals.
That's usually a good thing—as long as companies make sure to also hire a Pepper Potts to keep their powerful leaders grounded, according to new research co-authored by a Brigham Young University (BYU) business professor.
"Organizations need to anticipate the tendency of their most powerful members to leap without looking," said study co-author Katie Liljenquist, a professor of organizational leadership at BYU's Marriott School of Management. "The remedy is to surround them with people who can see other angles, or can play a devil's advocate role to point out risk. Interestingly, it is the low-power members of the organization who are best equipped to do this."
The study, appearing online ahead of print in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, found that powerful people are less likely to see constraints in pursuing their goals. Meanwhile, their low-power counterparts are more aware of the risks around them.
Liljenquist says the phenomenon mirrors the animal kingdom: Predators have evolved to have an extremely narrow eye focus for tracking prey, but this compromises their peripheral vision. Meanwhile, prey animals sacrifice such visual focus for more sensitive peripheral vision that tracks movement and potential threats in the surrounding environment.
"In business settings you need both," Liljenquist said. "You need the people with that unfettered confidence and optimism and the willingness to take big risks, but you need those low-power individuals who say, 'Hey wait a second. Let's identify the pitfalls.'"
Donald Trump is a perfect example of a leader whose confidence guides business decisions. During the first season of his reality show, The Apprentice, Trump offered the winner a chance to manage the construction of the Trump Tower in Chicago—even though the tower hadn't been fully approved yet.
"Trump didn't even have clearance to build that tower yet," said study lead author Jennifer Whitson. "It was that incredible confidence. He didn't have all his ducks in a row yet, but he acted—and it worked out for him."
Liljenquist says that failure to consider constraints can carry weighty repercussions, such as the housing market crises and bank failures of 2008 that caused the worst economic recession since the 1920s.
"Although blindness to constraints may make the powerful more willing to pursue their goals, their willingness to leap before they look may also sow the seeds of their own fall and the fall of those who depend on them," she said. "Power often perpetuates itself and can lead to great things, but when powerful people are blind-sided by unexpected challenges, they may crash and burn."
The 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster is a classic example of how power can be blinding. On that fateful day, powerful individuals doggedly pursued launch while ignoring the low-power employees who tried to be a voice of warning about the possibility of mechanical failures.
The study was led by Whitson, an assistant professor of business at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business. Other contributing researchers are from Columbia University, New York University, Stanford University and the University of Colorado-Boulder.
(Story materials and images from BYU.)
Tags: leadership management professional development research risk social psychology
By Jason Hensel June 08, 2012
A new study has found that when we fantasize about dream vacations before they are possible, we tend to overlook the negatives—thus influencing our decision-making down the line.
"We were interested in the effects of positive fantasies—what happens when people imagine an idealized, best-case-scenario version of the future, compared to when they imagine a less idealized version," said Heather Barry Kappes of New York University, co-author of the study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. "This is one of the first papers to examine selective information acquisition at this early stage, before people are seriously considering a possibility."
For example, imagine that you would like to take a trip to Australia this year but think you are very unlikely to do so—you have no more vacation time left, cannot afford it or would rather save up for a new car. But you still daydream about how nice it would be to see the Australian Outback and relax on the beaches, perhaps without thinking about the long plane ride there or the poisonous animals. Those daydreams, Kappes says, have powerful effects.
To test those effects, Kappes and co-author Gabriele Oettingen asked people to imagine a particular future about one of three topics: wearing glamorous high-heeled shoes, making money in the stock market or taking a vacation. To induce positive fantasies for each topic, the study participants were prompted to think about how great it would be to do each activity. In the control condition, participants also imagined experiencing the future, but were prompted to think about the negatives as well, with questions like "Would it really be so great?" In both conditions, participants wrote down what they were thinking for the researchers to ensure they were engaged in the imagery.
After that exercise, the researchers offered the participants a choice of different types of information. For example, participants could browse a website describing the positive and negative health consequences of wearing high heels, and researchers noted how much more time they spent reading about positive versus negative consequences. Or, they could choose which of five (fictitious) Tripadvisor.com reviews they wanted to read, and researchers recorded whether they chose one that was more pro-trip (i.e., five stars) or con-trip (i.e., one star).
Kappes' team found that for each topic, imagining the idealized version made people prefer to learn about the pros rather than the cons of the future event.
"These effects are pronounced when people are not seriously considering pursuing a given future," Kappes said.
The work has important implications for even the most deliberate of decision-makers.
"When people are seriously considering implementing a decision like taking a trip, they often engage in careful deliberations about the pros versus cons," Kappes said. "Our work suggests that before getting to this point, positive fantasies might lead people to acquire biased information—to learn more about the pros rather than the cons. Thus, even if people deliberate very carefully on the information they've acquired, they could still make poor decisions."
People need to be aware of these effects to ensure that they acquire balanced information before it is time to make a decision, she says. The study also contributes to a larger body of research about the powerful consequences of mental imagery—and shows that positive thinking may not always be best.
"Although there are benefits to imagining a positive future, there are also drawbacks, and it's important to recognize them in order to most effectively pursue our goals," she said.
(Story materials provided by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology)
Tags: decision making professional development science social psychology vacation
By Jason Hensel September 16, 2011
We recently shared with you news that ambition drives happiness. Now a new study shows that an inflated belief that we can easily meet challenges or win conflicts is actually good for us.
Researchers have shown for the first time that overconfidence actually beats accurate assessments in a wide variety of situations, be it sport, business or even war.
However, this bold approach also risks wreaking ever-greater havoc. The authors cite the 2008 financial crash and the 2003 Iraq war as just two examples of when extreme overconfidence backfired.
A team from the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, San Diego used a mathematical model to simulate the effects of overconfidence over generations. It pitted overconfident, accurate and underconfident strategies against each other.
A paper published in Nature shows that overconfidence frequently brings rewards, as long as spoils of conflict are sufficiently large compared with the costs of competing for them. In contrast, people with unbiased, accurate perceptions usually fare worse.
The implications are that over a long period of time the evolutionary principal of natural selection is likely to have favoured a bias toward overconfidence.
Therefore people with the mentality of someone such as boxer Muhammad Ali would have left more descendants than those with the mindset of film maker Woody Allen.
The evolutionary model also showed that overconfidence becomes greatest in the face of high levels of uncertainty and risk. When we face unfamiliar enemies or new technologies, overconfidence becomes an even better strategy.
Would you say you're an overconfident person? Has it helped or harmed you?
(Story materials provided by the University of Edinburgh.)
Tags: confidence executive education management social psychology
By Jason Hensel September 13, 2011
According to a new study, women remember deeper male voices more than higher toned voices. Oh, wow, that sounds like a study straight out of the 1950s, but really, there's some truth to it. Also, it doesn't have to be just females remembering male voices. I still remember 15 years later my friend Ron Heck's voice, whose tone was deep and warm like a late-night radio DJ's voice.
In a series of two experiments, David Smith and colleagues from the University of Aberdeen in the U.K. showed that memory in women is sensitive to male voice pitch, a cue important for mate choice because it can indicate genetic quality as well as signal behavioral traits undesirable in a long-term partner. These could include antisocial traits and lack of emotional warmth for example. In order to evaluate potential partners, women appear to rely on their memories to rapidly provide information about the attributes and past behavior of potential partners.
In the first experiment, 45 women were initially shown an image of a single object while listening to the name of the object spoken either by a high or low pitch male or female manipulated voice. They were then shown two similar but not identical versions of the object and asked to identify the one they had seen earlier. The women were also asked which voice they preferred.
In the second experiment, as well as manipulated voices, the researchers used real male and female voices to test how 46 new women rated the voices and how they scored on object memory.
In both cases, the authors found that women had a strong preference for the low pitch male voice and remembered objects more accurately when they have been introduced by the deep male voice.
"Our findings demonstrate that women's memory is enhanced with lower pitch male voices, compared with the less attractive raised pitch male voices," Smith said. "Our two experiments indicate for the first time that signals from the opposite-sex that are important for mate choice also affect the accuracy of women's memory."
The research is published online in Springer's journal, Memory & Cognition.
Think about it: Do you remember deeper voices more often then higher voices?
Tags: gender networking social psychology women
By Jason Hensel September 12, 2011
It seems like we're all drawn to ourselves, because if we're not sitting next to people that look like us, then we're convinced that a member of a group looks like, well, ourselves.
A recent study illustrated this by asking, "What does a typical European face look like according to Europeans?" It all depends on which European you ask. Germans think the typical European looks more German; Portuguese people think the typical European looks more Portuguese. That's the conclusion of the study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science. The results show how people think about groups they belong to.
Other studies have found that when people choose typical characteristics for a group they're in, they'll pick characteristics more like themselves. But that research was done using words. Roland Imhoff and Rainer Banse of the University of Bonn, Ron Dotsch and Daniël H.J. Wigboldus of Radboud University Nijmegen and Mauro Bianchi of the University Institute of Lisbon chose to take a different approach: pictures.
The researchers recruited two sets of participants in Germany and Portugal. Each person sat in front of a computer for about 20 minutes looking at pairs of pictures—770 pairs in all. Every picture was based on the same composite photograph of a man, but each had been computer-manipulated in a different way to introduce noise, distorting the picture and the man's features. Each time, the participant was supposed to pick the picture they thought looked more European. The researchers averaged the pictures that were chosen in each group to come up with one average picture for the Portuguese group and one for the German group.
The average picture created from the Portuguese participants' opinions looks darker, with wider-set eyes. The face created by the Germans has lighter hair and looks more German. The researchers had other people rate the two pictures and found that these observations held up—Germans had come up with a "typical European" face that looked more German, while Portuguese people thought of the "typical European" as more Portuguese-looking.
It may also be that this is just a sort of a mental shortcut people use to think of an abstract concept, such as "European" or "America," Imhoff says. It may also be that people are expressing a kind of subtle belief that they think their group is better than others.
"It has been claimed that I can elevate my own group by claiming it's particularly typical," Imhoff said.
This could have implications for racial profiling. For example, if a white police officer thinks of "British" as someone who is white like him, he may be more suspicious of someone who doesn't look like that. Much more research is needed to find out if that's true, Imhoff says.
(Story materials provided by the Association for Psychological Science.)
Tags: culture groups social psychology
By Christa Schelter September 09, 2011
Recent research out of the University of California-Riverside suggests that ambition drives happiness.
Assistant marketing professor Cecile K. Cho concluded that consumers who set ambitious goals have a greater level of satisfaction compared to those who set conservative goals.
Two experiments were conducted to compare people who set ambitious goals to those who set conservative goals. They focused on situations in which goals were achieved, and measured the level of satisfaction with the achieved goals.
In the first experiment, 134 participants were asked to set a target rate of return that they would be satisfied with and asked to pick from a percentage range of 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 or 20. Low goal setters were defined as those who set the rate at 14 percent or lower. High goal setters were those who set the rate at greater than 14 percent.
Participants were then asked to allocate their US$5,400 budget by picking three of 20 fictitious stocks presented to them. After a 10-minute filler task, participants received the return of their stock portfolio, handwritten by the experimenter so it matched their goal. Participants were led to believe their stock allocation had been entered into a database to get actual returns.
The experimenters then concocted three feedback scenarios.
In the first one, only the stock performance information was provided. This is called the "default" condition of interest. In the second one, the participants were first told the typical return of stocks was 6 percent to 20 percent and then told how their stocks performed. In the last scenario, participants were first reminded what their goal was and then told how their stocks performed. Participants were then asked to rate their satisfaction on 9-point scales.
Of interest is whether all participants, who achieve their goals, are similarly happy. Existing research would predict that those who achieve their goals should be satisfied. Results suggested otherwise.
In the first "default" scenario, high goal setters average satisfaction was 7.85 while low goal setters were at 6.53.
In the third scenario, where the range of possible outcomes was reiterated, a similarly large gap occurred between high-goal setters (8.57) and low goal setters (6.98).
In the second scenario, where participants were reminded of their goal, the gap in happiness level between the two groups disappeared, with high goal setters at 7.72 and low goal setters at 7.46.
This suggested that when people set goals, they don't necessarily recall this goal to evaluate their performance, but recruit a higher comparison point to do so. This upward comparison process likely negatively impacts their satisfaction with the performance of their portfolio.
A second experiment involving puzzles found similar results.
"The moral of the story is don't sell yourself short," Cho said. "Aim high."
(Story materials provided by the University of California-Riverside.)
Tags: goals satisfaction social psychology
By Jason Hensel August 15, 2011
Hey jerkface! What? You don't like my tone? I'm just trying to increase my income, so don't hate.
Research presented during the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in San Antonio, Aug. 14-16, finds that agreeable workers have considerably lower incomes than less agreeable ones, and that the gap is especially wide among men. Nice women may not earn quite as much as less-nice women, but, when it comes to men, disagreeable men simply leave agreeable ones in the dust.
"Nice guys do not necessarily finish last, but they do finish a distant second in terms of earnings," said the study's authors, Beth A. Livingston of Cornell University, Timothy A. Judge of the University of Notre Dame and Charlice Hurst of the University of Western Ontario. They find that "men who are one standard deviation [roughly 20 percentage points] below the mean on agreeableness earn an average of 18.31 percent (US$9,772) more than men one standard deviation above the mean on agreeableness. Meanwhile, the 'disagreeableness premium' for women was only 5.47 percent ($1,828). Thus, the income premium for disagreeableness is more than three times stronger for men than for women."
The professors concede the finding to be a bit puzzling.
"Given the increasing reliance of organizations on teams, it would seem that people high in agreeableness would have at least a slight economic advantage over those low in agreeableness," the wrote.
Why, then, have scholars not "offered more than a minimal explanation" for its absence? To a significant extent, the study suggests, because they have not fully appreciated the powerful effect of masculine stereotypes on men's earnings.
"Disagreeable men reap a double benefit," the professors write. "Their disagreeableness helps them better translate their human capital into earnings advantage, and the same behavior conforms to expectations of 'masculine' behavior."
By the same token "agreeable men are disproportionately disadvantaged" because their agreeableness "conflicts with social norms of masculinity."
Not that this anomaly provides an opportunity for women to greatly close the earnings gap between the sexes.
"Seen from the perspective of gender equity, even the nice guys seem to be making out quite well relative to either agreeable or disagreeable women," the professors wrote. "Thus, exhortations for women not to be nice might be overblown. Nice girls might not get rich, but 'mean' girls do not do much better. Even controlling for human capital, marital status and occupation, highly disagreeable women do not earn as much as highly agreeable men."
Since men are most affected by the business world's continuing prejudice against agreeableness, how should they respond to the study?
"Certainly nice guys should forswear any wholesale personality makeover, even if such a thing is possible," Livingston said. "What would obviously make sense is to maintain their good nature without compromising their self-interest. For example, suppose they contribute significantly to the success of a project. Agreeable people sometimes have a tendency to hide their light under a bushel. But there are ways to make sure that one's contribution is recognized without being disagreeable about it.
"In the end, agreeable folks may make less money than they deserve, but even disagreeable people know that money isn't everything," she continued. "Leo Durocher could certainly be disagreeable, but even he insisted he didn't really mean that nice guys always finish last."
Okay, then. Sorry about saying jerkface. You're actually a really nice person!
(Story materials provided by the Academy of Management.)
Tags: careers gender management social psychology workplace
By Jason Hensel August 11, 2011
Narcissistic qualities—confidence, dominance, authority and self-esteem—can make someone a good leader, as many people believe. Is this a valid belief?
"Our research shows that the opposite seems to be true," said Barbora Nevicka, a Ph.D. candidate in organizational psychology, describing a new study she undertook with University of Amsterdam colleagues Femke Ten Velden, Annebel De Hoogh and Annelies Van Vianen.
The study found that the narcissists' preoccupation with their own brilliance inhibits a crucial element of successful group decision-making and performance: the free and creative exchange of information and ideas. The findings will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The study recruited 150 participants and divided them into groups of three. One person was randomly assigned to be the group's leader. All were told they could contribute advice, but that the leader was responsible for making the decision. Then they undertook a group task: choosing a job candidate. Of 45 items of information about the candidate, some were given to all three and some to only one of the participants.
The experiment was designed so that using only the information all three were privy to, the group would opt for a lesser candidate. Sharing all the information, including what each possessed exclusively, would lead to the best choice. Afterwards, the participants completed questionnaires. The leaders' questions measured narcissism; the others assessed the leaders' authority and effectiveness. All checked off the items among the 45 that they knew—indicating how much the group had shared—and rated how well they'd exchanged information.
Experimenters tallied the number of shared items, noted the objective quality of the decision and analyzed these data in relation to the leader's narcissism.
As expected, the group members rated the most narcissistic leaders as most effective. But they were wrong. In fact, the groups led by the greatest egotists chose the worse candidate for the job.
"The narcissistic leaders had a very negative effect on their performance," Nevicka said. "They inhibited the communication because of self-centeredness and authoritarianism."
Narcissism can sometimes be useful in a leader, Nevicka says. In a crisis, for instance, people feel that a strong, dominant person will take control and do the right thing, "and that may reduce uncertainty and diminish stress."
But in the everyday life of an organization, "communication—sharing of information, perspectives and knowledge—is essential to making good decisions. In brainstorming groups, project teams, government committees, each person brings something new. That's the benefit of teams. That's what creates a good outcome." Good leaders facilitate communication by asking questions and summarizing the conversation—something narcissists are too self-involved to do.
Nevicka says the research has implications beyond the workplace—for instance, in politics.
"Narcissists are very convincing," she said. "They do tend to be picked as leaders. There's the danger that people can be so wrong based on how others project themselves. You have to ask: Are the competencies they project valid, or are they merely in the eyes of the beholder?"
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There are many people in the world who argue that life is a game, a constant exchange of status. For validation of this belief, look no further than the hospitality industry.
"When we think about a service context in a high-end hospitality industry such as a spa, a luxury hotel or a cruise, the image that comes to our mind is a serene, peaceful setting with numerous friendly, empathetic service providers working hard to take care of the customers," wrote authors Tuba Üstüner (Colorado State University) and Craig J. Thompson (University of Wisconsin–Madison) in a new study about status exchange in the Journal of Consumer Research.
In this imagined world, satisfied, happy customers treat service providers with respect and reward them with generous tips. However, the reality behind that idyllic vision is quite different, the authors explain.
The authors interviewed consumers and employees in the hairdressing industry in metropolitan regions of Turkey, which caters to affluent and secular clients. Hairdressers are often young men, who come from rural, religiously conservative areas.
"Hairdressing is regarded as a working-class trade, and hence, its labor pool is largely constituted by rural migrants, squatters, and other members of the urban underclass," the authors said.
What happens when these men (most of whom did not advance beyond primary school) are called upon to serve middle- or upper-middle-class women? Turkish salons can include valet parking, music and food and beverages. The salon's employees spend up to three hours pampering each client. But class roles are strictly enforced, and consumers set the boundaries for conversation and interaction.
"These service interactions are a performance, much like a theatrical one where each party has its roles to play," the authors wrote. "But the scripts are not neutral; rather, they reflect the customers' desire to reenact their class-based dominance over their hairdressers."
However, service workers are not powerless in these situations.
"On the contrary, the game that is being played is what we call an interdependent status game, where customers are as much dependent on the service providers as service providers are on customers," the authors conclude.
How often do you play the status game?
(Story materials provided by the University of Chicago Press Journals.)
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By Jason Hensel July 30, 2011
In human relationships, mimicry can act as a kind of social glue and foster rapport in subtle ways. If, for example, Amy and Ted are engaged in a conversation, Amy might mirror some of Ted's mannerisms, leading Ted to like Amy more, trust her, and think of Amy as more similar, even though both are unaware that any mimicry took place. All this has been confirmed by much of psychological research, leading to a popular perception (and advice) that imitating is good for you. New research, though, suggests that mimicry may not always lead to positive social outcomes. In fact, sometimes not mimicking is the smarter thing to do.
In a study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychological scientists Piotr Winkielman and Liam Kavanagh, along with philosophers Chris Suhler and Patricia Churchland at the University of California, San Diego, noted that there are often observers to the mimicry that takes place in dyadic relationships. This led them to wonder whether there might be certain situations in which mimicry comes at a reputational cost. That is, are there some cases in which an observer might think less of a person for mimicking the behavior of another, even when the mimicry is not consciously noticed by the observer? After all, Winkielman argues, mimicry is a crucial part of social intelligence and "social intelligence is not only knowing how to mimic, but also when not to mimic."
Participants in the study were asked to watch several videotaped interviews staged by the experimenters. Some participants saw videos in which the interviewer was cordial and other participants saw videos in which the same interviewer was condescending. Importantly, in some videos the interviewee mimicked the interviewer's simple, innocuous mannerisms, such as chin-touching or leg-crossing, and in other videos the interviewee showed no mimicry. After watching each video, participants evaluated the interviewee on general competence, trustworthiness and likability.
Despite the fact that the participants reported no awareness of mimicry, it still influenced their evaluations of the interviewee. Critically, participants judged the interviewee who mimicked the condescending interviewer to be less competent than the non-mimicking interviewee. In other words, in the eyes of the outside observers, the imitator of the undesirable model incurred reputational costs—their mirroring was seen as an error.
Interestingly, an additional experiment showed that visually obscuring the interviewer in the same videos eliminates the negative effects of mimicry, showing that observers use alignment in body language to make their judgments. Furthermore, the reputational cost of mimicking a condescending interviewer disappeared when participants first read positive information about his character, suggesting that the observers care about the deeper aspects of the person.
Winkielman says that this research indicates that mimicry is more nuanced than previously thought. Our social lives are incredibly complex and in order to build or maintain relationships we have to keep in mind "who is competent, high status, trustworthy, who is friends with whom." We can make these determinations partly by observing who imitates whom. As such, the benefits of mimicry depend very much on the social context.
"It's good to have the capacity to mimic, but an important part of social intelligence is knowing how to deploy this capacity in a selective, intelligent, context-dependent manner," Winkielman said. "Sometimes, the socially intelligent thing to do is not to imitate."
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Cherokee Nation Honors Three Veterans in January
This month the Cherokee Nation honors its Veterans from World War II and Vietnam-era with the Cherokee Medal of Patriotism.
Virgil Lee Carter, 86, of Tahlequah; Michael Allen Smith Sr., 60, of Tahlequah; and Darryl England, 62, of Talihina, each received a medal and plaque from Principal Chief Bill John Baker and Deputy Chief Joe Crittenden, acknowledging their service to the country.
"I appreciate it very much being honored this way," said Carter, a World War II Veteran. "We did what we could."
Virgil Lee Carter was born Dec. 23, 1926, to Houston and Elizabeth Carter in Park Hill. In 1944, Carter was inducted into the U.S. Army, but since he was still in high school, he deferred until June 1945. He completed basic training at Fort Chaffee, Ark., with additional training at Camp Fanning in Texas. Carter and his company joined with the 49th Infantry Division in Italy during the end of World War II. The 49th Infantry Division spent a year in Italy gathering and destroying ammunition and weapons. In 1947, Carter received an honorable discharge and returned home. After completion of his service, he attended Northeastern State University and earned both a bachelor's and master's degree. He then received his doctorate in education at the University of Arkansas. Carter now lives in Tahlequah. He has a son, six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Michael Allen Smith Sr. was born in 1952 to Allen and Colleen Smith in Flagstaff, Ariz. In 1972, Smith was drafted into the U.S. Army and completed basic training at Fort Ord in California. He was assigned to the 9th Infantry Division and served as a truck driver and light wheel vehicle mechanic. Smith served briefly overseas in Germany and received an honorable discharge in 1975. After being discharged, Smith reenlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves for six years. For his service, Smith received the Marksmanship Badge and 9th Infantry Badge of Service in addition to other medals. Smith is now retired and lives with his wife, Debra, near Tahlequah. The couple has four children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Darryl England was born in 1950 to Dan and Mary England in Claremore. In 1970, England enlisted in the U.S. Navy and completed training in Orlando and San Diego. During his service, England advanced rank quickly and served different positions on submarines. In 1978, he helped the U.S. Secret Service provide security for President Jimmy Carter during the 1978 National Democratic Convention.
"It was pretty interesting to tell high powered senators they needed the right credentials," he said. "This is a tremendous honor to be recognized by the tribe."
In 1979, England was honorably discharged after nine years of service. He received a National Service Medal, a Good Conduct Medal and various service pins. England is now retired and spends time with his two children and four grandchildren.
Each month the Cherokee Nation recognizes its service men and women for their sacrifices and as a way to demonstrate the high regard in which all veterans are held by the tribe. Native Americans, including Cherokees, are thought to have more citizens serving per capita than any other ethnic group, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. To nominate a Cherokee Nation veteran, please call 918-453-5541 or 800-256-0671, ext. 5541.
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I'm proud of these three gentlemen. Funny, Virgil Lee Carter was born on same day as I was, just some years before me. I to joined in Air force back in 1979. air Force would not let me stay in, due to medical reasons. I do agree our government doesn't recognize our fellow Native Americans. I may not be a high percentage of Native American cause I haven't been able to find out, but It runs through me... the feeling are there. God Bless all three gentlemen for the awards they are receiving. God Bless all Native American who struggle and seek truth.Mary


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Montana officials didn't want the animals on state land. They also turned down requests for the animals from a Wyoming state park and at least two Indian reservations.
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Mark Smith wrote:The fish coming into the hobby as C. ornatus have been indicated by the collectors in Columbia and the importers here in America as having been collected from the San Juan River in Columbia. If this is true, then this fish is C. gephyrum and not C. ornatum, since only C. gephyrum is found in the Dagua and San Juan Rivers in Columbia; while C. ornatum is found in an entirely different river system, namely the Patia River basin in Columbia and Durango and St. Javier Rivers in norther Equador.
Darrell Ullisch wrote:It should be noted that Jeff is NOT selling them as ornatum, but cf. ornatum, because he was unsure of the ID due to coming from a different river system. Too many people are not paying attention to the cf. and just calling them ornatum, which is not what they were sold as.
It should also be noted that just because gephyrum is known from the same river system as this new fish, doesn't make the new fish gephyrum any more than it makes it ornatum. It would be necessary to compare specimens to the description and the types before placing such an ID on it.
Alden wrote: I was wondering what "cf" meant. Does it mean captive found? I do agree thought that just because a fish is found in a particular river system doesn't by default guarantee it must be gephyrum.
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What Is Pet Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation?
Physical rehabilitation for pets is the use of therapeutic exercises and range-of-motion therapy combined with additional treatments (see the list below for examples) to improve the recovery of patients with acute or chronic health conditions. Physical therapy may be recommended for pets recovering from fractures, orthopedic surgery (including cranial cruciate ligament repair, total hip replacement or spinal surgery) and neurologic events (such as spinal injury).
Why might my pet need physical therapy?
Physical rehabilitation can help restore, maintain and promote proper functioning and mobility for your pet. It can also enhance recovery after surgery, reduce pain, increase circulation, and improve coordination and range of motion. It can help keep geriatric pets more comfortable and provide a last-chance option for those who have not had success with other treatments.
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Happy birthday, Beyoncé! The 32-year-old has had quite the year; from show-stopping performances and sunny vacations to her directorial debut, whatever she's doing, Beyoncé knows how to wow. Since having daughter Blue Ivy in 2012, the singer has been hard at work on looking and feeling her best. In fact, when she debuted her postbaby body at a concert just a few months after Blue's birth last year, she even acknowledged how hard she's been sticking to her strict diet and exercise regime. "I had to lose 60 pounds. They had me on a treadmill. I ate lettuce!" she told the crowd. Of course, it's a lot more than that. Here's how Beyoncé's philosophy has evolved throughout the years to help her stay healthy and fit.
She's realistic: "I can't eat what I want, and I can't not go to the gym," Beyoncé told Self. She also has the right outlook; she knows that there isn't a quick fix when it comes to a healthy lifestyle. "The truth is, it's a lot of sacrifice. It's more about your mental strength than physical strength. You have to push yourself. It doesn't matter what trainer you have. And it doesn't matter what program you're on. You have to be healthy and make the right choices," she said.
She saves time: Beyoncé is a fan of celebrity trainer Marco Borges, who trains her using his signature Power Moves philosophy. This system helps Beyoncé save time since it relies on exercises that work several muscle groups at once. She also saves time by interval training, alternating between sprinting and running while on the treadmill, to burn more calories in a shorter amount of time.
She seizes every exercise opportunity: She may be busy, but when Beyoncé has a few minutes, she knows that she can fit in a few extra calorie-burning moves, like squats, lunges, and planks, no matter where she is. Get Beyoncé's five-minute do-anywhere workout here.
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She has fun with her exercise: Learning those dance moves burns major calories, and luckily, Beyoncé has fun while she's doing it. "For me, dancing is what keeps me active," she told Shape.
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Neniam kredas ĉio ke vi legas!
Much is made about the accuracy of Wikipedia, but normal books can be a challenge, especially if they're written for grade school students.
I was looking at the third version of a book written in 2000, "The Euro for Europe" last week. It was meant to be a High School introduction to the Euro as it came into existence. One of the things it gave was a small history of attempts at combined European currency.
The first illustration the book gave was "An Appeal by Esperanto users for a single currency in Europe." It showed a photograph of a completely readable postcard. Underneath the postcard it says, "Translated from Romanian, this reads:" It then gives an accurate English translation of the postcard.
How do I know its an accurate translation? every single word on the postcard, with the exception of most of the handwritten address, is in perfect Esperanto. There is not a single Romanian word on the entire card. The address is in French, with the exception of the recipient's title, which is Esperanto.
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Gxustan gramatikon, mi petas!
"Neniam kredas ĉio ke vi legas!"
. . . should be . . .
"Neniam kredu ĉion, kion vi legas!"
"kredi" is used as a command, so -u ending.
"ĉio" is is the direct object of "kredu" (subject understood as "vi")
"ke" can be translated as "that," but in a phrase like "I know that he is tall." (Notice you can't substitute "which" in this sentence.)
In the above case preferably start with the English "which" rather than "that" which is more exact and results in using "ĉio". Then add the direct object "-n" since what is being read is the direct object of "legas."
I added the comma for clarity (to separate the two phrases), but it is often left out in informal Esperanto.
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1 year 28 weeks ago
I already politely corrected
I already politely corrected his title by giving the correct title as the title of my reply. I thought that that was quite sufficient. (I saw no need to hit him over the head with the details, which I was sure, given the correction, he could easily figure out for himself.) Your later correction, which itself contains two errors, reminds me of the joke about the best background to have for someone wanting to become an editor: to have been one of those people who come down out of the hills after the battle to shoot the wounded.
Evidently, the title was meant to be a translation of, "Don't believe everything you read." – so changing "Neniam" to "Ne" is part of the correcting that needs to be done, which you neglected. Also, you assert that "which" is "more exact" than "that", but in fact they are, strictly speaking, different animals. It is true that the distinction between them is often ignored, and it is true that the provisional substitution that you mention is helpful; still, it is well to bear in mind their different roles, which is best illustrated by example:
"That was his third presentation, which was well-received." (His first two presentations were duds.)
"That was his third presentation that was well-received." (All three presentations were well-received.)
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by Mike Jones,
1 year 28 weeks ago
Ne kredu ĉion kion vi legas!
Reminds me of a famous joke about Esperanto, in which person A, an opponent of Esperanto, seeking to refute the notion that Esperanto sounds like a natural language, asks person B, a renowned Esperantist, to sing something in Esperanto. Person B then sings something, and person A says to everybody standing around listening to this exchange, "See how ugly it sounds!" – at which point person B points out that he (person B) did not sing something in Esperanto, but instead a famous refrain from a much-loved Italian opera.
I forget where I saw this, but if I had to guess I would say it was in Funamenta Krestomatio de Esperanto. Maybe someone else can pin down the source.
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by Mike Jones,
1 year 28 weeks ago
the famous joke is retold elsewhere on this blog
See Don Harlow's comment here
I think you're right, though, I had read it somewhere else before, though possibly in Don's online Esperanto book.
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by Ted Alper,
1 year 28 weeks ago
And there's another joke
And there's another joke along this same line, which I do believe I saw in Fundamenta Krestomatio: A young man, puzzled why people should waste their time on Esperanto, asks his physician, who, unknown to the young man, happens to be an Esperantist, how it is that people come down with this madness for Esperanto. The good doctor replies that the bacillus causing people to become interested in Esperanto is carried by the Sun's rays, and to remain safe from this malady, the young man should remain forever in darkness.


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A reader wrote me a question the other day and asked, "What if you were trying to tone down pink undertones in a pink-beige tiled bathroom? Would you still want to use a pink undertone beige if you didn't want a "pink" bath?"
I thought it was an excellent question and I actually am hearing the same question more and more often. The average homeowner just does not have the expendable money right now for big purchases, like flooring, so we will have to keep our pinky beige tiles/carpet/furniture for now. So what other color works great with pinky beige?
Beautiful neutral blue.
Blue and pink/red beige work beautifully together:
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