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Want to know how sports teams get their cheerleaders to look more attractive? Besides short skirts and sultry dance routines? They hire a bunch of ‘em. That’s right, people are seen as more attractive in a group than they are alone, and it’s called the cheerleader effect. A study published … Read More
Everyone lies, right? Sure, but according to new research, a small percentage of people do most of the lying, while the rest of us are actually pretty honest. For a study published in Human Communication Research, researchers conducted a survey of 527 people to find out how often they’d lied … Read More
We know you’ll be shocked to read this, but: attractive people are more likely to proceed to the second round of job interviews. A study in Italy (pdf alert) had researchers send out 11,000 fake resumes for 1,542 real job vacancies across Italy. Each vacancy was sent eight applications: four … Read More
We’re sorry to depress you, but here it goes: according to some senior citizens who’d better damn well be lying, all the most important memories of your life are made by the time you’re twenty-five. Well, according to the seniors and the psychologists researching them, anyway. Their study, published in … Read More
How do you feel when you cheat, but don’t think anyone is hurt? Chances are, you like it. According to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, most people don’t feel bad after cheating, and if we think that no one was hurt, we like … Read More
