Apparently: Height trends since World War II are analyzed using the most recent NHANES survey released in 2006. After declining for about a generation, the height of adult white men and women began to increase among the birth cohorts of c. 1975-19…
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Are women held to higher standards than men at work?
Sure seems like it: Using archival organizational data, the authors examined relationships of gender and type of position (i.e., line or staff) to performance evaluations of 448 upper-level managers, and relationships of perform…
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Who becomes a smoker?
Hello? HELLO?! Are you paying attention? If not, you might be more likely to smoke: The authors examined the prediction from inattention to tobacco use among 2 cohorts (ages 7 and 13) of a community sample followed to young adulthood. Changes in s…
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Does how you move affect whether people like you?
Yes. It’s well established that mimicking others improves affiliation. This study takes it further, timing affects connectedness as well: The tendency to mimic and synchronize with others is well established. Although mimicry ha…
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