Matthew Hertenstein
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“People who look others in the eyes, especially when speaking, appear to be, and actually are, more intelligent than their gaze-averting counterparts.”
― The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
― The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
“Indeed, the researchers found that wide-faced men perceived themselves as powerful, and this contributed to their unethical behavior.”
― The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
― The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
“Controlling for a host of factors, such as the severity of the crime, the courts condemned the defendants with more stereotypical Afrocentric features to death more frequently, but only if the murder victim was white; 24 percent of the men with the least stereotypical Afrocentric features received death sentences, as opposed to 58 percent of the men with the most stereotypical features. That is more than double.”
― The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
― The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― The Descent of Man
― The Descent of Man
“It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.”
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