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If you’re itching for a style change, by all means, go for it! If you’ve found yourself asking yourself the question “what hairstyle suits me” or “what haircut should I get” more often lately regardless of the turn of the seasons, then it’s probably high time you bit the bullet and opt for a new look. For many of us, upgrading our look means getting a new haircut. Whether just a quick dusting of some frayed ends or a complete overhaul altogether, there’s definitely something therapeutic about tweaking your look....

Now the view is not of ice sheets but of the sculpted body of land after the retreat of ice: bowl-like meadows, ice-scoured plateaus, uplifted Archean basement rock, polished granite walls amidst crowded peaks, towering cirques, string lakes, U-shaped canyons, and wild rivers that flow into three major watersheds—the Columbia, Colorado, and Missouri rivers, which spill into slow oxbows and hard rapids, straightening and crooking their necks like swans. The Wind River Mountains push southeast like a thick thumb from the wilderness matrix that holds Yellowstone Park, the Tetons, and the Gros Ventres....

For 25 years, I and other social scientists have documented how feeling powerful can change how ordinary citizens behave—what might be called the banality of the abuses of power. But my research into the social psychology of power suggests that—without exculpating corrupt individuals—we also need to take a hard look at the social systems in which they commit their abuses. In experiments in which one group of people is randomly assigned to a condition of power, people in the “powerful” group are prone to two shortcomings: They develop empathy deficits and are less able to read others’ emotions and take others’ perspectives....

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. Remember that movie starring Will Smith entitled “Wild Wild West”? Lol! Yes, while I was typing up this post I was definitely humming the theme song along in my head! My husband and I had an old west, cowboy up style getaway to Jackson Hole, WY for our Anniversary. If you have never been to Jackson Hole… this town is all about the old west, cowboys, horses, wild life, and so on....

People agreed to pose as a homeless person. Then, they had their unsuspecting relatives (wife, sister, cousin, grandson) walk by. The relatives didn’t even notice their loved ones. Underneath every human being is a need for belonging. We all have a need to feel cared about, to be understood, to be accepted. Whether it’s someone who is homeless, a friend, a cousin, a sister, a brother, parents or grandparents, our brains begin to objectify them and often times forget the common humanity that binds us....