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refutaram afirmativas da sociobiologia quanto a serem inatas a poligamia masculina e a monogamia feminina.

A professor of finance and a student are strolling across the Chicago campus. The student stops and exclaims, “Look! There’s a five-dollar bill on the ground!” The professor replies, “It can’t be a five-dollar bill or someone else would have picked it up already.”

men are inclined to act on impulse, whereas women are often cool and calculating.

One last point: economists tend to be skeptical of any attempt to change people’s behavior that doesn’t change their incentives. For example, a plan that calls on manufacturers to reduce pollution voluntarily probably won’t be effective because it hasn’t changed manufacturers’ incentives.

“Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy.” As Summitt spoke, Tennessee had won five NCAA Championships, but only once when they were favored to win. “On

First, compared to the two other approaches, the strategy of starting with an extreme demand and then retreating to the more moderate one produced the most money for the person using it. This result is not surprising in light of the previous evidence we have seen for the power of larger-then-smaller-request tactics to bring about profitable

Research by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson shows that even checking a box to indicate your race or sex can trigger the stereotype in your mind and lower your test score.

girls who did not drop out because of the cash transfer were also less likely to become pregnant.

The way price discrimination usually works is that in order to get the lower price, the consumer has to do something,