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How do the powerful handle situations differently than the powerless?
x studies examined how power affects responses to situational affordances. Participants were assigned to a powerful or a powerless condition and were exposed to various situations that afford different classes of behavior. Study 1 examined behavior intentions for weekdays and weekends. Studies 2 and 3 focused on responses to imaginary social and work situations. Study 4 examined planned behavior for winter and summer days. Finally, Studies 5 and 6 examined behavior and attention in the presence of situation-relevant and irrelevant…
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Does performance pay increase job satisfaction?
is paper investigates the influence of performance-related pay on several dimensions of job satisfaction. In cross-sectional estimates performance-related pay is associated with increased overall satisfaction, satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with job security and satisfaction with hours. It appears to be negatively associated with satisfaction with the work itself; yet, after accounting for worker fixed effects the positive associations remain and the negative association vanishes. These results appear robust to a variety of alternative specifications and support the notion that performance-related…
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Is being a quitter good for your health?
ree studies examined associations between goal disengagement and goal reengagement tendencies and indicators of physical health (e.g., health problems, cortisol rhythms, sleep efficiency). Based on research showing that goal adjustment tendencies are associated with subjective well-being, the authors predicted that people who are better able to disengage from unattainable goals and reengage with alternative goals also may experience better physical health. Across the three studies, the findings demonstrate that the ability to disengage from unattainable goals is associated with better…
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Are people who disagree with you inherently evil?
t really, but it seems that's what we believe. When others disagree with our opinions we're likely to attribute negative motives to them: The research explores the tendency for people to attribute negative motives to others who hold an attitude position that is discrepant from their own. In Studies 1 and 2, American and Canadian respondents indicated their perceptions of U.S. President Bush’s motives for initiating war in Iraq. Consistent with the proposed bias, respondents who disagreed with the war…
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Is having a small penis really that bad?
it isn't bad on it's own, having a small penis is correlated with erectile dysfunction: Introduction. With the increase in penile augmentation procedures it becomes important to assess what is the normal erect penile size in both potent men and men with erectile dysfunction (ED). Aim. The aim of this work is to define the average stretched penile size in normal men and ED patients. Main Outcome Measures. Penile length and girth. Methods. This study included 1,027 adult men…
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How accurate are lie-detectors?
obably the most comprehensive look at polygraph accuracy is a 2003 report from the National Academy of Sciences. After examining 57 polygraph studies the NAS concluded: "In populations of examinees such as those represented in the polygraph research literature, untrained in countermeasures, specific-incident polygraph tests can discriminate lying from truth telling at rates well above chance, though well below perfection." Their analysis of the 30 most recent polygraph data sets showed an overall accuracy of 85 percent, and an analysis…
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Why you might want to ignore everything I post on this blog, part 2:
posted before about why you might want to ignore everything I post on this blog. Here's a fun study that shows how connections can be drawn between silly or impossible things: Objective To investigate whether "network effects" can be detectedfor health outcomes that are unlikely to be subject to networkphenomena. Design Statistical analysis common in network studies, suchas logistic regression analysis, controlled for own and friend’slagged health status. Analyses controlled for environmentalconfounders. Setting Subsamples of the National Longitudinal Study…
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Does Part-time Work Make the Family Happier?
king into account interdependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and family wellbeing. We use panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We find that part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women, and that women's life satisfaction is increased if their partners work full-time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but is increased if they themselves are working full-time. Our results…
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