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I once heard a sermon -- at Easter, of all times! -- that had actually been presented by another pastor. Essentially, it was a counterfeit sermon! Now a new study says that something as simple as a repeated anecdote can make speakers less authentic , according to newswise.com. The website reports that a mainstay of the political campaign trail is the heartfelt, homespun anecdote. It helps politicians build rapport with voters and establish themselves as appealing and relatable. But new research from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business suggests those well-traveled anecdotes could be sabotaging that quest for connection , newswise explains. The website points out that research conducted by Rosanna K. Smith, an assistant professor of marketing at UGA, and her co-author Rachel Gershon, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of California San Diego, shows that witnessing people repeat a story or anecdote leads their audience to view them as less au...

Blondes are always stupid.  Men aren't as empathetic as women.  Women are worse drivers than men. Strong convictions .  But are they always correct?  Strong convictions can blind us to information that challenges them, according to a new study reported by newswise.com. When people are highly confident in a decision, they take in information that confirms their decision, but fail to process information which contradicts it, finds a University College London brain (UCL)imaging study. The study, published in  Nature Communications , helps to explain the neural processes that contribute to the confirmation bias entrenched in most people's thought processes, the website notes. It's called bias, and "Our study found that our brains become blind to contrary evidence when we are highly confident, which might explain why we don't change our minds in light of new information," newswise quotes lead author, PhD candidate Max Rollwage (Wellcome Centre for Human Ne...

Are you surprised?  Turns out women tell are told more  white lies than men in evaluations.   Newswise.com reports that white lies, while important when judging someone's haircut, or how your spouse looks in jeans,  can cause problems in the workplace, where honest feedback, even when it’s negative, is important. Women are more likely to be given i naccurate performance feedback , says new research by Lily Jampol, Ph.D. ’14, and  Vivian Zayas , associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. Though bosses may do it to be nice,  underperforming women are given less truthful but kinder performance feedback compared to equally underperforming men. White lies are told to preserve relationships, avoid harming the other person or to present one’s self in a positive light, among other reasons, the website quotes Jampol says. Though they often reflect benign intentions, in some contexts they can be proble...

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One of the best things about me is that I'm pretty much always prepared . Now a new study is saying that might not be such a good thing. According to newswise.com, if you are, " you may bring that sense of confidence into other parts of your life for which you might not be nearly so prepared." In three studies, the website reports, researchers found that feelings of preparedness in one area made people more confident in their beliefs about something completely different – whether those thoughts were positive or negative.  The findings suggest that people may sometimes feel confident about a belief or decision for totally unrelated reasons, newswise quotes  Patrick Carroll , lead author of the study and associate professor of  psychology at The Ohio State University  at Lima. "For example, you may have been leaning slightly toward support of one candidate in a local election when you started preparing for a job interview. Once you’re prepared for the inter...