Context

When It Comes To Attraction, Context Matters

Sam Sommers | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Physical Attraction, Love and Relationships, Love, Mate-Choice Copying, Facial Expressions, Context, Situations Matter, Human Nature, New Research, Male Attractiveness, Attractiveness Psychology, Physical Attractiveness, Emotional Intelligence, Female Attractiveness, Facial Attractiveness, Video, Healthy Living News
Sam Sommers

What makes someone attractive to you? Specific physical features? A particular personality type? A certain indefinable quality of character or depth of soul? All reasonable answers, sure, but there's another critical influence on who you're attracted to: context.

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Context, Gender, and Why Riley's Right to Be Pissed Off About Toys

Sam Sommers | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Halloween Costumes, Viral Videos, Newborns, Youtube, Sex Differences, Gender, Daughters, Happy Meal, Star Wars, Fast Food, Mars and Venus, Speed Dating, Context, Math, Situations Matter, Stereotype Threat, Video Games, Video, Parents News
Sam Sommers

Behavioral science has now shown us that many of the gender differences we habitually chalk up to biology or evolution aren't as set in stone as we assume.

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What You Don't Know About People

Sam Sommers | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Personality Types, Situations Matter, Curriculum, Context, Personality, Kindergarten, Crowds, Airlines, Customer Service, Human Nature, Negotiation, Gender Differences, Mars and Venus, Gym, Sex Differences, Attraction, Gender, Arousal, Dating, Internet Dating, Video, Culture News
Sam Sommers

You've been lied to. Or, at the very least, misled. It's simply not true that everything you need to know about life you learned in Kindergarten.

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'Tis the Season to Notice Situations

Sam Sommers | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Gift List, Holidays, Holiday Season, Routine, Thanksgiving, Childhood Home, Situations Matter, Shopping Mall, Greeting Cards, Context, Human Nature, Social Norms, Lord of the Flies, Unwritten Rules, Dunkin Donuts, Scattergories, Family, Video, Books News
Sam Sommers

While we tend to view ourselves and others around us in terms of predictably consistent personality types, time and time again behavioral science demonstrates that how we think and what we do varies dramatically by simple situational considerations like where we are.

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Book Review: Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little

George Mocharko | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Linguistics, Twitter, Books, Writing, Context, Poetry, Minimalism, Authors, Social Media, Internet, Advertising, Internet Advertising, Marketing, Branding, Communication, Books News
George Mocharko

Through status updates, instant messages, and "tweets," we have all had to adopted new ways of getting the word out as briefly and as memorable as possible.

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A Context for Cheating: Great Neck, USA

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Sat, Cheating, Childhood, Context, College, Bullying, Parents, Great Neck, Education News
Carol Smaldino

Anyone who lives in this neck of the woods, the "great" neck so to speak, knows just how huge the competition and pressures are to get into college, let alone the college of one's choice.

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Pain? What Pain?

Sam Sommers | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Rain, Pain, Jogging, Placebo, Cycling, Placebo Effect, Exercise, Sports, Sports Illustrated, Athletes, Amputations, Situations Matter, Context, Running, Sports News
Sam Sommers

The idea that there's a mental component to pain is hardly an unfamiliar one. But the more you learn about it, the full extent to which our experience with pain depends on situations is surprising.

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Twitter, What Is It Good For?

Dyane Jean François | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Television, Multitasking, Youth, Twitter, Context, Social Networks, Technology News
Dyane Jean François

Getting mad at Twitter for not being efficient at fostering relationships is like asking your television to talk back.

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Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Timeline

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

I have wondered why the White House hasn't been making some political hay over the success of the withdrawal timetable in Iraq. But I now see they wanted to roll this news out when people were actually paying attention.

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12-Step Program for America: Step 3

Jim Selman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Constitutional Democracy, Recovery, Context, America, 12-Step Program, Surrender, Faith, Politics News
Jim Selman

The road to recovery for any addict--whether we are speaking of an individual or a nation--happens one day at a time.

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Glenn Beck and Jim Wallis Meet to Discuss Social Justice (VIDEO)

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dialogue, Vacation, April Fools, Video, Social Justice, Jim Wallis, Civil, April Fools Day, Jesus, Good Friday, Civil Dialogue, Miracle, Movie, Rush Limbaugh, Context, Mobilization, Holy Week, Easter, Political Climate, Best Medicine, Good News, Christ, Youtube, Fox News, Justice, Poverty, Love, Christian, Glenn Beck, Reconciliation, Meaning of Social Justice, Comedy News
Jim Wallis

Though many think I'm on vacation with my family this week, footage has been obtained of a top secret meeting between me and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck!

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Biblical Social Justice and Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

Glenn Beck says Christians should leave their social justice churches, so I say Christians should leave Beck. Beck attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show.

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