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  • The teams that did best rated high in social sensitivity: their members interacted well, took turns speaking and included more females than groups that did poorly. The study is in the journal Science. [Anita Woolley et al., citation to come.]

  • part of the value of social networking sites and microblogging is that you feel connected to the person even though they are not real-time online at that point.
Oct
20
2010

  • humans are successful as a species precisely because of our nurturing,  altruistic and compassionate traits
  • One recent study found compelling evidence that many of us are genetically  predisposed to be empathetic.
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Sep
9
2010

  • Faculty members who want to create a hybrid course should use social media systems such as blogs or wikis rather than an LMS. An LMS is good for a fully online course, but requires needless administrative time for a hybrid course.
Mar
16
2010

  • "Disaster films convey completely the wrong view of how most people behave in these kind of situations," he says. "Hollywood shows people panicking, but my research shows that 9.9 times out of 10, people don't turn into crazed individuals, but behave quite rationally. They tend to help each other, too."
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