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FaceTime, the newly launched marketing body for the live events industry has unveiled the findings from the industry’s first-ever psychological study of the power of live. Using new research techniques, the findings explain how live events work and reveal the unique attributes of going face-to-face with customers as part of a sales and marketing strategy. |
ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2010) — Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process.
The findings are published in the current issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine.
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SEE ATTACHED PDF ABSTRACT We have conducted a study of meetings to gain an understanding of how conversation is affected by computer use. We videotaped five workplace meetings, noting the disruptions that occurred, and recording people’s disengagements when they performed tasks with paper or with laptops. We saw evidence that people preferred these disengagements not to exceed 10 seconds. When tasks were performed on laptops, disengagements were more likely to exceed this |
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SEE ATTACHED PDF EXCERPT: Over the last century, advances in technology have massively expanded our choice of ways to connect to each other. Nevertheless our original means of communicating – talking face to face – persists as the most immediate, natural, and universal means we have of communicating. Conversing face to face, we have at our disposal not only the full richness of our spoken language, but also a nonverbal vocabulary that includes |
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Despite the common association of "right" with life, correctness, positiveness and good things, and "left" with death, clumsiness, negativity and bad things, recent research shows that most left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become an interesting case in which conceptual associations as a result of a sensory-motor experience, and conceptual associations that rely on linguistic and cultural norms, are contradictory. |
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A free mini-course in presentation skills. http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/ppt_submit.html ... |
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) — Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why languages differ throughout the world. The study argues that human languages may adapt more like biological organisms than previously thought and that the more common and popular the language, the simpler its construction to facilitate its survival. |
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Chris and Charlotte Martins discover the costs of sleep deprivation during residential conferences, and find that the industry is awakening to the problem A Daily Telegraph report on January 3 notes that better sleep can ‘wake up your mind and increase your brain power’, and that sleep deprivation will ‘affect decision-making and the ability to absorb and adapt to new information.’ |
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