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“Stop bragging. It annoys people.” –Science

You Call It “Self-Exuberance”; I Call It “Bragging”

[P]eople overestimate the extent to which recipients of their self-promotion will feel proud of and happy for them, and underestimate the extent to which recipients will feel annoyed…Because people tend to promote themselves excessively when trying to make a favorable impression on others, such efforts often backfire, causing targets of self-promotion to view self-promoters as less likeable and as braggarts

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A ‘Learning’ Attitude Helps Boost Job Search Success

PAFF_060315_LearningAttitudeSuccess_newsfeatureFor most jobseekers, the job hunt is no picnic — disappointment, rejection, and desperation seem to have become hallmarks of the typical job search. It’s common to hear stories of job hunters who have submitted hundreds of applications before getting a single interview.

No one will argue that looking for a new job isn’t stressful, but new research finds that the way people manage and channel this stress could have a big impact on their ultimate success.
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How can you tell if someone is prejudiced? By looking at the shape of his face, of course…?

Facial width to height ratio indicates high level of endorsement of prejudicial beliefs.
Facial width to height ratio indicates high level of endorsement of prejudicial beliefs.
Narrow face, clearly not a bigot

Facial Structure Is Indicative of Explicit Support for Prejudicial Beliefs

Eric Hehman, Jordan B. Leitner, Matthew P. Deegan, and Samuel L. Gaertner       

Can you tell whether someone has prejudicial beliefs based on their facial structure? In the last of three experiments, White and Black participants were shown pictures of White male faces and were asked to rate how prejudiced they thought each target was. Not only were pictures of targets with greater facial width-to-height ratios (fWHR) judged to be more prejudiced, but participants’ ratings of the targets correlated with the targets’ reported endorsement of prejudicial beliefs. Greater fWHR has been found to be related to higher levels of dominance and testosterone in men. It could be that men with a greater fWHR are less inhibited and are therefore more willing to report their racial prejudices.