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...reluctant to revise our self-judgment, especially for the better. In 1994, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published a paper showing that when people get feedback that they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. If you try to tell your dim friend that he has the potential of an Einstein, he won't think he's any smarter; he will probably just disbelieve your contradictory theory, hew more closely to his own self-assessment and, in the end, feel even dumber. In one fascinating 1990s experiment demonstrating this effect - called cognitive dissonance in official...
...Alexei Polikarpov, head of the Dyuna Nesting Doll Co., also based in the Nizhny Novgorod region, shares Korotkov's dim view of the government plan. "Realistically, I'm not sure that the funds will reach all of the factories," he says. But even if they do, not all of the country's handicrafts are produced in the small factories that dot rural Russia. In Sergiyev Posad, the historic home of the nesting doll, many people still paint dolls in their living rooms and kitchens. While the government says it aims to save a traditional Russian art form, the artisans...
...Florida's and Southern California's. Aéropostale has won because of price. So if teens are shopping at cheaper places or permitting their parents to buy clothes from these outlets, does that mean teens, like, get it? Are they fully aware that their summer-job prospects are dim, that their parents' employment prospects may be dimmer and that it's unfair to guilt Mom and Dad into spending money on expensive clothes? Are kids these days actually acting responsibly? "More than ever, we're seeing that teens are responding to value," says Jeffrey Klinefelter, an equity-research analyst...
...Time and again and around the world - from as recently as Tibet in 2008, to Egypt in 2005, to Tiananmen in 1989 - the prospects of reform dim considerably without international support. In fact, we know of no modern democratic evolution or revolution that has succeeded without some support and pressure from the west...
...upset over his hair! When we had dinner, everything was really dim, because he had bad hair. Toupees. Boy oh boy - it got so hard to do anything because of his hair. If he couldn't get his hair right, he'd say, 'I don't feel good.' " - Ronnie Spector, lead singer of the Ronettes and Spector's former wife, on his obsession with his hair, which later took form in a series of increasingly odd wigs (New York Post, March...