Posts Tagged ‘shame’

Shame and honour increase cooperation: UBC study informs future strategy for tackling global challenges

Jun. 1, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: , , , ,

onour and shame work equally well in encouraging social cooperation, according to a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

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Happy guys finish last, says new study on sexual attractiveness

May. 24, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new University of British Columbia study that helps to explain the enduring allure of “bad boys” and other iconic gender types.

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Nationalism – are the Games giving us permission to be loud, proud and Canadian?

Feb. 18, 2010 | Filed under: Media Advisory | Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

UBC has a number of experts ready to comment on the phenomena of “strategic nationalism” – where hockey fever can induce patriotism – the lightning quick mood changes within social media and the different faces of pride, from authentic to hubristic.

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