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...cheese sandwich • On a potato chip • On a window pane • On a pancake • On a piece of burnt toast • On a tree trunk • On a Cheeto • On a waffle • On a spoon • On a frying pan • On a cinnamon roll • On a danish (this may be the same as the aforementioned cinnamon roll. Unclear) • On a fish stick • On a cat • On a moth • In an ultrasound (creepy) • In some salsa • On a grape • In a cellphone pic • On a turtle...
...about an experience in which they felt they had control over other people, and another group to write about a time they felt out of control. The third group wrote nothing. All of the students were then given dice and told that if they correctly guessed the number they rolled, they would win $5. They were also given the choice of rolling the dice themselves or having someone else roll for them...
...results were striking. One hundred percent of the students who had written about being in charge rolled the dice themselves, compared with only 58% of the students who had written about someone else having power over them. Sixty-nine percent of the control group chose to roll. There may be nothing quite as random as a roll of the dice, but the students on a power high appeared to believe they could do it better. (Read "Does Power Corrupt? Absolutely...
...Choosing to roll the die represents an illusory sense of control," the researchers write. "[But] the outcomes were uncontrollable...
...Reader's Digest, even as the company is preparing to either undergo financial restructuring or file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. "If we touched just 1% of Evangelicals in America," Alston continues, "that's 900,000 members." (The publisher printed 400,000 copies of the premiere issue and plans to roll out half a million copies of future editions...