Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

Interested in human nature. Sharing what I learn. | PhD candidate | BS | Veteran | Newsletter:

Cambridge, England
Joined March 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 Dec 2019

    The best books I read in 2019 1. The Social Leap by "At least since the steamship, people have traveled the globe with relative ease. Yet no one thought to put wheels on a suitcase until 1970, and they didn't catch on until 1987"

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    2 hours ago

    Hot off the JEP:G press: Lying to Appear Honest When people obtain extremely favorable outcomes, they downplay their own performance in order to appear honest, even at a financial cost.

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    “[R]eading outside our boundaries can produce epiphanies when we find that an argument, a metaphor, an analogy from an intellectual stranger, or even an enemy, might find new life in our thought.”

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  4. "Men are made most attractive by displaying pride and least attractive by displaying happiness, whereas women are made most attractive by displaying happiness and least attractive by displaying pride...for younger women, male shame tends to be more attractive than male happiness"

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  5. “President Kennedy had to wear a back brace because he tore a muscle during a sex orgy at the White House..When Oswald’s first bullet struck, the brace prevented the president from ducking to avoid later shots..sexual escapades led indirectly to his death”

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  6. "appearance is inextricably linked to self-esteem. For adolescents the relationship between appearance and global self-esteem is very high (r= 0.65). Physical appearance takes precedence in predicting global self-esteem, followed by peer social acceptance"

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    Feb 1

    A great way to realise the sheer quantity of information our 🧠 seamlessly processes when we do a “simple” task like driving a car. This is what the Tesla autopilot sees using a neural network which took 70,000 GPU hours to train. ht

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  8. “What happens when records of our life are accessible...our future leaders selected for whether they were willing to be boring in their 20s, no recorded indiscretions that might derail a Senate confirmation. Are these the people we want to be governed by?”

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  9. “A 2015 study with more than 1,000 participants looked at lying....Children initially have difficulty formulating believable lies, but proficiency improves with age. Young adults between 18 and 29 do it best.”

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  10. “And if you’re inviting somebody out to lunch, or scheduling a meeting, offering one or two concrete proposals that they can accept or decline is a good starting point.”

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  11. “Significantly more men (44%) than women (37%) said they regard performing oral sex as having sex...About 7% of the time, when a man and a woman engage in oral sex, he will count that as sex whereas she will not”

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    Feb 2

    Do you feel like you have an internal monologue?

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    Feb 2

    (7) My observations fit with Moral Foundations Theory, by et al., that some people feel highly loyal to an ingroup, such as their country, while for others this is hard to comprehend. The theory was replicated recently across many countries.

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  14. Feb 2

    Just sent out my fifth newsletter If you signed up but didn’t receive it, check your spam/junk folder For everyone else, sign up here:

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  15. Feb 1

    Percentage who report that they are certain their partner has been faithful: 45% of women, 36% of men Percentage who report that they are certain their partner has cheated: 41% of women, 28% of men Percentage who are unsure: 14% of women, 36% of men

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    29 Dec 2019

    "obesity has as strong, or even stronger, an association with chronic medical conditions and physical health-related quality of life, as poverty, lifetime smoking history, or recent heavy drinking"

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    30 Dec 2019

    “A man is likely to mind is own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.”

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  18. Feb 1

    I don't want to get banned from Twitter So I share the more interesting stuff about human nature on my newsletter Sign up here:

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  19. Feb 1

    Percentage of women and men who prefer to be asked out on a date Women: 93% Men: 16% Percentage who prefer to ask someone on a date W: 6% M: 83% "more men preferred to be asked out (16%) than there were women who preferred to do the asking (6%)"

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  20. Jan 31

    "people report high authenticity when they do what is socially valued, rather than being true to what one is actually like inside...the guiding “true self” is not what one’s inner traits embrace but what the external world values"

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    Shoutout to the pain, that gave me understanding

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