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  Personalized Leadership Key for Keeping Globally Distributed Teams on Task

  April 29, 2013 — Companies with employees located around the globe can mitigate their isolation by taking a relationship-based approach in the form of a "leader-member exchange," professor ... > full story
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  Reading Wordless Storybooks to Toddlers May Expose Them to Richer Language

  April 29, 2013 — Researchers have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to a picture-vocabulary ... > full story
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  Mediterranean Diet Linked to Preserving Memory

  April 29, 2013 — A new study suggests that the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes consuming foods that contain omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, chicken and salad dressing, and avoiding saturated fats, meat and ... > full story
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  Do You Obsess Over Your Appearance? Your Brain Might Be Wired Abnormally

  April 29, 2013 — New research has discovered that people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have abnormal connections throughout their brain. BDD is a disabling but often-misunderstood psychiatric condition in which ... > full story
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  Engaging Online Crowds in the Classroom Could Be Important Tool for Teaching Innovation

  April 29, 2013 — Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators say, even when the quality of the feedback provided by online sources doesn't always match the ... > full story
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  Pathological Gambling Caused by Excessive Optimism

  April 29, 2013 — Compulsive gamblers suffer from an optimism bias that modifies their subjective representation of probability and affects their decisions in situations involving high-risk monetary ... > full story
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  Do You Fear You Are Missing Out?

  April 29, 2013 — Does checking Twitter and Facebook to see what your friends are up to make you feel like you are missing out on all the fun? Researchers have come up with a way of measuring the modern day concept of ... > full story
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  Visitors and Residents: Students' Attitudes to Academic Use of Social Media

  April 29, 2013 — Research has shown that university students behave very differently when using social media as part of their academic ... > full story
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  Competing Pathways Affect Early Differentiation of Higher Brain Structures

  April 26, 2013 — A new study shows how the strength and timing of competing molecular signals during brain development has generated natural and presumably adaptive differences in a brain region known as the ... > full story
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  Poor Parenting -- Including Overprotection -- Increases Bullying Risk

  April 25, 2013 — Children who are exposed to negative parenting -- including abuse, neglect but also overprotection -- are more likely to experience childhood bullying by their peers, according to a meta-analysis of ... > full story

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