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New Study Shows Reputation Trumps Money
Whether it’s an attempt to increase recycling rates, reduce energy consumption or cut carbon emissions, conventional wisdom says the best way to get people to do the right thing is to make it worth their while with financial incentives.
But a new study shows that there may be an easier — and cheaper — way: by boosting people’s reputations through the use of peer pressure.
“When people know it’s a cooperative effort, they feel peer pressure to take part,” Rand explained. “They think, ‘If I don’t do this, I’m going to look like a jerk.’ But if it’s not observable, then there’s no problem with not participating.”
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cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over 600 more.
I need feminism in the US, too.
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A map of different countries fitting inside of the massive Australia. Large version: How Big is Australia?
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29 of the world’s largest bike-sharing programs at the same scale in one map
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Adulting: Still applicable: Do not comment on things people are, comment on things they do.
(a re-print inspired by all these responses. Also, please, can no one ever again utter a variant of the phrase “Wow, for an [inherent characteristic] you are certainly [adjective]!” That is never, ever going to go well.)
The simplest example of this is not telling a tall person that they’re…
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”Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.
What we think, we become.
My father always said that… and I think I am fine.― Margaret Thatcher (via coolcatteacher)
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New Study Shows Reputation Trumps Money
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kabul, afghanistan. may 2, 2013. photo massoud hossaini
