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Sam Sommers: Going With Your Gut in the Voting Booth

No, this is not another blog post about the benefits (or costs) to being beautiful, though attractiveness certainly is a characteristic that can impact an election. Just ask Richard Nixon. But I'm not talking about physical attractiveness per se.

Sam Sommers: Study: The Context Dependence of Hot Guys (and Girls)

What makes someone attractive to you? Specific physical features? A particular personality type? A certain indefinable quality of character or depth of soul? All reasonable answers, sure, but there's another critical influence on who you're attracted to: context.

Book folks predicted speed-reading explosion

What will the book world be like in the 21st Century? How will books be published and what will be their contents? Will literature concern itself with much the same subjects as it does today? What will plays be like and the theater?

Can Ugly People Have Presence?

Popular culture tells us that innate qualities like attractiveness, extroversion, height, or gender give people more presence than others. But when you consider that presence is about building connection and influence over time -- rather than first impressions -- it's more of an equal opportunity trait than you might think.

One of the best known fictional depictions of business is Arthur Miller’s 1949 play,

Death of a Salesman , which tells the story of a traveling salesman who has reached the end of his road. Several fine films have been made of this drama, and in 1984 Dustin Hoffman starred in an acclaimed revival of it.