In their 2011 book Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind, Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Reginald B. Adams, Jr. explain the tight link between brain development and humor that cognitive neuroscientists have found.
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[T]he people around us are not who we think they are, and we usually fall into the trap of thinking we know their inner workings better than we really do.--From review of Situation Matters According to Professor Sam Sommers, we are not very... Delete the scoop?
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Character traits determined genetically? Genes may hold the key to a life of success, study suggests
Genes play a greater role in forming character traits -- such as self-control, decision making or sociability -- than was previously thought, new research suggests. More on CHARACTER: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=character Delete the scoop?
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Physiognomy "is the assessment of a person's character or personality from their outer appearance, especially the face." Although one might think of physiognomy as an outdated pseudoscience, along with its brethren craniometry and phrenology, facial phenotyping has undergone a resurgence of interest. Most recently, a study by Wong et al. (2011) looked at facial width and financial success in male CEOs: Delete the scoop?
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