Word: gray
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Psychology graduate student Kurt J. Gray found that people who chose to donate a dollar rather than keep it had greater physical endurance...
...Gray stopped random passersby in Harvard Square and put a weight in their hands, asking them to hold it for as long as they could. He then handed them a dollar and told them they could either keep it or donate it to charity. After he gave them the weights again, those who donated the dollar were able to hold the weight longer than those who did not donate the dollar...
...variation of the first study, Gray gave a weight to passersby and told them to hold it for as long as they could in one hand while writing a story with their other hand about themselves doing something heroic, neutral, or evil...
...shouldn’t have to choose between those two categories,” he said. “It would be nice if there were more honest discussion of the gray areas...
...depends on whether you like hanging with undergraduate students, because if you do it’s a sweet deal and it’s personally kind of rewarding,” said Currier House resident tutor Kurt J. Gray. “And if you don’t it would be hell...