Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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environmental influences and that 30‚000 genes were too few to explain human nature‚ whereas 100‚000 would have been enough. As one scientist put it to me a few weeks later‚ just 33 genes‚ each coming in two varieties (on or off)‚ would be enough to make every human being in the world unique. There are more than 10 billion combinations that could come from flipping
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter Steven Johnson’s argument in “Watching TV Makes you Smarter” that television increases intellectual and enhances our cognitive faculties‚ therefore making us smarter Johnson’s states that‚ “For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common- denominator standards‚ presumably because the “masses” want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that
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SMARTPHONES COULD BE MAKING US DUMBER Mobile phones nowadays have been taking over our society so much‚ that we can’t even live without it. Even children have a smart phone today‚ is it right at this age to have one? What will be the consequences on a kid that started so young using this gadget? There are lots of advantages and disadvantages of using mobile phones. Firstly‚ the main usage of phones is to call or to text someone‚ but with the upgrade of technology‚ phones have changed completely
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Hall-Evans 1 Susan Hall-Evans S. Fong English 1a 09/25/2014 What Makes You Happy? Advertising is tricky. The challenge facing most advertising groups is creating the allure to get the consumer to buy their products. In advertising the lay out is just as important as the context of the ad. The advertisers use all forms to entice us: color‚ typography‚ catch words‚ and of course things that appeal to our vulnerabilities. These catch words are words which are
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Dumber Than a Doornail Stereotypes are assumptions made about a group of people based on commonalities shared among that group. These assumptions normally have to do with religion‚ ethnicity‚ cultural values‚ and even outward appearances. One of the common reasons stereotypes exist is that it is easy to identify individuals without interacting with them. A person can identify a face and immediately categorize him or her based on information derived from upbringing‚ past experiences‚ and the media
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What makes an American an American? Is it the accent‚ the clothing‚ the fact that you can speak the English language‚ or is it the fact that you were born on American soil? I believe it’s certain characteristics that set us apart from other countries. The fact we are self-reliant‚ and competitive‚ and the compassion we bring to others are some‚ of many‚ American characteristics that help set us apart. These are the three characteristics that I have chosen to write about. Our self-reliance
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Do television advertisements make consumers want to make changes in their lives? Some advertisements can make young people feel insecure about their physical appearance. They can also create a need for young people to be attractive which could lead to a result of insufficient funds. In short‚ advertisements today encourage adolescents to spend more time and money on products that will help make them the “perfect human”. Television advertisements may use skinny models‚ which can give young women
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What Makes You Beautiful In the article “Marketing New Inventions” by Robert Rodriguez he states the various amounts of competition when it comes to different‚ or even the same‚ kind of products. Even when that product takes a rise‚ someone will always be watching you to make sure that whatever product they decide to invent‚ that it over powers yours or any other invention in their range. The article also states that in order to survive the marketing world an entrepreneur must be market savvy‚ develop
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buy you everything your heart wishes. With money you would be able to live a comfortable life with everything you wanted around. You can have flat screen TV’s to expensive jewelry‚ the sky is the limit when you’re spoiling with the benefits of your hard work. But does that necessarily make you happy? Would having everything be as great as it seems? There is nothing like the feeling of shopping with no limit. When you can have everything you want and are fortunate enough to buy anything you want
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