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Jargon Can Put People Off Science

The Horizons Tracker

It found that when people were bamboozled by complex jargon on science, they felt they were less good at the topic and less qualified to talk about it. In total, they analyzed around 20 different topics across both politics and science, with the same results appearing across them all.

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How to Talk Politics at Work Without Alienating People

Harvard Business Review

Next, we invited subjects to participate in an online experiment. We asked subjects to watch a video of someone who strongly agreed with their point of view (one version with the actor using skills, the other without) – and asked them to judge the actor. ” Struck by the results, we tested another condition.

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China Still Isn’t Ready to Be a True Global Leader

Harvard Business Review

What does it mean when Canada has had so many rich Chinese apply for citizenship that it has recently attempted to limit their immigration ? The concept of the “7 Nos” — a list of topics to steer clear of discussing with students — was articulated. They could not talk about universal human rights.

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Examining Columbus’s Complicated Leadership Legacy

Harvard Business Review

How to overthrow a leader, shift an authority structure, or (from an opposing perspective) quell a menacing mutiny, are among its principal topics. Christopher Columbus is the subject of the seminar’s first case (Ferdinand Magellan, Sebastian Cabot, and Henry Hudson are the others).

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Information About Climate-Inducted Migration Affects Attitudes Toward Migrants

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Migration information According to a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan, reading about the phenomenon of climate-induced immigration has had an unexpected consequence: it has fueled negative and nativist attitudes among individuals toward the migrants affected by these circumstances.

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My Office Is Full of Both Conservatives and Liberals. Here’s How I Keep Us Focused on Work

Harvard Business Review

Any group discussion on this topic could become combustible as it veered toward immigration policy, since my staff has a range of opinions on this subject. For example, we have been examining how changing demographic trends in the U.S. may influence consumer tastes, regional economic growth, housing values, and so on.

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AI Helps Us Understand The Changing Feelings Towards Immigrants

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It’s perhaps tempting to think that the current hostility to immigration is a modern phenomenon. A recent paper from Stanford highlights how this isn’t really the case, and society’s response to immigration has fluctuated throughout the last century or so. ” Hostile attitude. . ” Hostile attitude.

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