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Are you shy ? Uncomfortable in large gatherings, like parties, or meetings at your office?  In the past, it may have made you want to stay away. But now a new study says that introverts perform nearly as well in social settings as extroverts , according to newswise.com. " The networking event is a time-honored ritual in the business world. It’s a place where buyers and sellers, employers and job seekers, innovators and investors, get to know one another in the hopes of long-term mutual benefit," the web site reports. But some people thrive in these situations, while others, well, wither. The  Johns Hopkins Carey Business School ’s Erik Helzer, an assistant professor of management and organization and an expert in social psychology, wanted to know the answer to that question, which has important implications for people throughout the business world, newswise. notes, so Helzer and a team of colleagues recently published a study examining this important milieu and its...

Have you ever felt comfortable complaining to God ?   I don't know about you but I was brought up to fear His wrath if I didn't do anything other than thank Him.  But now a new study says grieving and complaining  when you pray   can actually make you feel more spiritual . “Denial leads to holding grudges, fear, and festering wounds. That is not faith,” newswise.com quotes W.H. Bellinger Jr., Ph.D., chair of the department of religion in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences and The W. Marshall and Lulie Craig Professor of Bible. Experts have studied how  expressing griefs, complaints and even anger at God can help people grow rather than become spiritually stagnant, according to the web site. I've had my moments with God.  When I struggled for years with infertility (getting pregnant twice and then losing the baby), I couldn't get over my anger at the situation.  I was careful not to blame God, but I wondered where He was, in all ...

So here's an interesting question.  Do sadists ever feel sad after inflicting pain? According to newswise.com, b y definition, a sadist is, "A person who derives pleasure from inflicting pain or humiliation on others."  Instinctively, the web site points out, "When one thinks of sadists, they think of serial killers. However, we all know sadists." David Chester tells the web site sadists are everywhere to varying degrees. In fact, sadists are commonly considered bullies . "Sadistic tendencies are impulses that people have to experience pleasure from inflicting harm on others," he says. "These impulses exist in many people, not just violent criminals." A new  study  authored by Chester, who graduated with a doctorate in experimental  psychology  in the  College of Arts and Sciences  from the University of Kentucky, delves deeper into sadistic tendencies and aggressive behavior, according to newswise - more specifically, the emotio...

Let's face it.  Life is always easier when you have a smooth ending to things.  A good-bye party when you leave a job.  In the old days, exchanging telephone numbers when you parted at school.  A tweet to break up a relationship. Anyway, a new study has found that life's transitions are easier with a sense of a "well-rounded ending," according to newswise.com. The web site notes that w e are more likely to have positive feelings about transitioning from one stage of life to the next if we have an ending marked by a sense of closure —says a team of psychology researchers. “Starting a new life phase in a positive and constructive way is often challenging, so we examined methods that could help people find a good start to a new job, a new relationship, or a new home,” explains Gabriele Oettingen, a professor in New York University’s Department of Psychology and the senior author of the study, at  the web site . “We observed that  how  people end ...

I knew it was probably a risky thing to do.  But I hadn't been paid, and kept getting the runaround, so when I went over my boss's head, and his boss told me he'd look into it the following week, what I'd been hearing all along, I kind of went a little nuts and said, "Please don't take this the wrong way but I feel like I'm getting the runaround again." And, poof!  They fired me. So how do we talk ourselves into rationalizing bad choices ? I had every right to get paid.  But most likely I should have known the guy had a thin skin and I should have been more careful.  Even my son, 16 at the time, told me I should have not done it. "When a reward is tempting enough, people will break their own moral codes to gain the desired prize," says newswise.com. "Afterward, they’ll tell you exactly how they were justified: 'It wasn’t as if anyone was harmed,' “I was only borrowing …,” 'My boss told me too,' or 'It’s our ...

Did you know that there's only a small difference between cooperation and egotism , or extortion ? According to a new study, a strategy has been developed that alternates between cooperation and egotism, newswise.com reports.  And apparently it is difficult for us to resist. "The extortion strategy is especially effective when there is strong competitive pressure - that is if there can be only one winner," the web site explains. "Extortioners often come across as friendly colleagues. They reciprocate friendliness with friendliness, making their competitors feel as though it must be a misunderstanding, if they are taken advantage of again and again. They are forced to play along to avoid loosing even more. This seemingly friendly yet extremely tough exploitation strategy is rewarded with additional gain," points out Manfred Milinski from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen.  Together with Lutz Becks at the University of Konstanz, he...