Word: confidental
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What's more, Bailenson's research suggests that the qualities you acquire online - whether it's confidence or insecurity - can spill over and change your conduct in the real world, often without your awareness. Bailenson has found that even 90 seconds spent chatting it up with avatars is enough to...
One problem is that no one knows how long the incubation period for facial tumor disease is. But every week that passes without Cedric falling sick makes Woods sleep better: "I'm quite confident now that he's immune." Hamish McCallum, the University of Tasmania ecologist coordinating the scientific effort...
What about Facebook? According to a study conducted at Penn State, people with higher friend counts seem cooler, more attractive, and more confident. Given the bizarrely circular nature of celebrity, in which you can become known simply by being known, Facebook seems like an ideal tool. In a culture where...
“Men have unrealized potential for self-cultivation, self-direction, self-understanding, and creativity. It is this potential that we regard as crucial and to which we appeal, not to the human potentiality for violence, unreason, and submission to authority,” the Students for a Democratic...
Upstairs at the Karacaahmet Sultan shrine, an Alevi leader named Muharrem Ercan sits behind his desk in his smoke-filled office. He's confident, he says, that the Alevi are on the winning side. "We solved the issue of whether Islam could be tolerant 750 years ago," he says. "It...