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    Dress to Impress: Does Suiting Up Bring More Confidence?
    Chloe Levin
    • Jan 30, 2017
    • 3 min

    Dress to Impress: Does Suiting Up Bring More Confidence?

    ​Think back to the days of playing dress-up—those moments when you slipped on your mother’s nicest dress or carefully slid your arms into your father’s fanciest jacket. Besides drowning in a sea of baggy cotton, what else did you feel? Did you walk with the grace of a ballerina? Experience a sudden rush of maturity? Notice a shift in your perspective? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’ve come to the right place! The reasoning behind your transformation lies
    Stick to the Status Quo
    Abby Flyer
    • Sep 5, 2015
    • 2 min

    Stick to the Status Quo

    ​ You’re at the mall with a group of friends, and your best friend Jen is trying on a new shirt. She asks everyone how it looks, and your friends all sing their praises. Personally, you think the shirt is drab and ugly, but you don’t want to be the only voice of discontent, so when Jen looks at you, you give her an encouraging thumbs up. You’ve just fallen prey to conformity, the changing of behavior to fit in with a group. Don’t worry; you’re not the first. We humans are soc
    Stereotypes, Bias, Prejudice, and Discrimination, Oh My!
    Yena Kim
    • Sep 2, 2015
    • 2 min

    Stereotypes, Bias, Prejudice, and Discrimination, Oh My!

    From the day we first learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in elementary school, words like "discrimination" and "prejudice" frequently get thrown around left and right. They're important concepts, but people tend to use them interchangeably when discussing social issues that come up in life. And we get it, they all sound pretty similar. Do people intentionally jumble them up together? Probably not. But let's try to clear up the confusion. It a

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