By Tres, on Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:36pm PDT
You want to know certain
things about the person you're sleeping with — have they ever
robbed a bank, hurt a kitten or tipped less than 15 percent for
good service. But the debate around whether or not you should ask
for (or disclose) the number of partners you've had? I
don't get it.
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By Tres, on Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:38am PDT
Season three of
Mad Men
starts this Sunday, and we're counting down the days until
it's 1960-something — we don't even know what year it will
be! The show jumps from 1960 in season one to 1962 in season two,
so it's likely that a year or more will have passed.
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By Tres, on Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:30am PDT
OK, that sounds a little
creepy, but it has been verified in research that
people like others more when they mirror their mannerisms or
actions. In other words, imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery, and we like to be flattered. Research has shown that
waiters get bigger tips if they repeat the exact words back to
customers who are ordering food, and participants in one study were
even more altruistic after they were mimicked. (They were more
likely to pick up pens for the researcher who dropped them if
they’d been imitated earlier.)
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