Results

Harvard professors examined what observers thought of individuals who deviate from the norm in a workplace and retail setting. They asked store clerks and customers to rate what they thought of others who walked into luxury stores wearing gym clothes. The customers said, “That person seems out of place.…

Micah wrote, “I will make a...mourning as the owls” (1:8). Better to be God’s hoot owl than the devil’s mockingbird! Pepper ‘N Salt, Vance Havner, page 119

An Irishman came to America and lived here for a year before his wife came to join him. “Don’t these people talk funny?” she remarked when she arrived. He replied, “If you think they talk funny now, you should have heard them when I came over a year ago! We grow accustomed to conditions, and Christians…

The real estate salesman said, "This house has both its good points and its bad points. To show you I'm honest, I'm going to tell you about both. The disadvantages are that there is a chemical plant one block south and a slaughterhouse a block north." "What are the advantages?" inquired the prospective…

I remember reading an amusing story about a jeweler in a small town who noticed a man stopping each morning in front of his jewelry store, pulling a large gold watch out of his pocket, and setting it to the time of the large clock in the store window. He did this every day, month after month, year after…

CONFORMITY Decades of psychological research have revealed that people tend to go along with the majority view, even if that view is objectively incorrect. A new study published in the journal, Neuron, uses brain imaging to support those beliefs. The new research involving 222 participants found that…