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Magda has a BSc/MSc in psychology and co-authored several articles on trait attribution and moral judgements. She taught social psychology and IT skills to undergraduates and SPSS and questionnaire design to junior researchers in a commercial research agency.

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Autos > Driving & Safety Ways to avoid giving in to road rage: 34 of 107
There are over 1,200 annually reported cases of road rage in the US; a quarter of them result in fatalities or serious injuries.Most if not all drivers can relate to the term "road rage": we might have been subjected to aggressive behaviour of other drivers, and we might have felt a hot swell of anger raising in our own chest... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Experiences renting a car with Enterprise Rent-A-Car: 3 of 9
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company is a rental car company serving customers in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Ireland, Puerto Rico and the U.K.. They are also the owners of the Vanguard Automotive Group, operator of National Car and Truck Rental and Alamo Rent A Car in North America.As I live in the UK, my experiences with Enterprise... More..
Travel > Europe Travel experiences: Puglia, Italy: 1 of 3
Puglia or Apulia as the English would have it is more or less the heel of the Italian boot. With 800 km of coastline and quite a long land border with other southern regions it is one of the larger Italian regions and also a very diverse and seemingly quite complicated one. Please allow me to include a bit of history - this i... More..
Relationships & Family > Online Dating The age of consent laws worldwide: 1 of 3
The age of consent refers to the "minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent of consenting to sexual acts". This is not usually a term used in legal documents, but as a concept has far reaching legal consequences, as it usually implies that sexual relations with the person under the age of consent wi... More..
Jobs & Careers > Online Surveys & Pay to Click Online surveys: Pinecone Research.com: 1 of 3
If I was ever again in position to buy (or advise somebody on buying) an online survey, I would wholeheartedly recommend Pinecone Research. Those hypothetical research buyers interested why, please proceed to the *Research Buyers* section. Pinecone is also a great choice for potential respondents. Those (more likely to be rea... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Environmental Awareness Book reviews: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond: 1 of 3
For those interested in broader reasons for societal collapse, Diamond makes his caveats very quickly - 'Collapse' proposes to investigate *certain type* of failure to thrive of past and more modern societies. He concentrates on what is called 'ecocide', or ecological suicide, where society fails because of at least partial... More..
Travel > Travel Planning & Advice Using Google Earth: 1 of 3
Google Earth is, possibly, the most amazing piece of software I have encountered in the last 10 years: the wow factor is amazing and its capabilities beggar belief. It also happens to be very useful for many purposes.I will not even attempt to write anything like a complete review/description of the package here, but instead ... More..
Arts & Humanities > American Authors Book reviews: This Book Will Save Your Life, by A. M. Homes: 1 of 3
The professionals' reviews uttered things like 'glass-sharp' and 'acid-etched' while the readers' ones were more along the lines of 'nice' and 'uplifting'. And Stephen King said that it might even save somebody's life.There is little doubt that "This Book Will Save Your Life" won't do any such thing, in fact it's one of those... More..
Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Book reviews: The Iron Dragon's Daughter, by Michael Swanwick: 1 of 3
"The Iron Dragon's Daughter" has been published in the Fantasy Masterwork series and very deservedly so. It's an excellent novel, with a powerful, almost brutal vision and quality of writing transcending the confines of the genre.It starts so: "The changeling's decision to steal a dragon and escape was born, though she did no... More..
Sciences > Genetics Is it ethical to use DNA analysis to create super-humans?: 1 of 3
Developments in the modern science continue to create new ethical dilemmas and bring up new questions: prompt us to redefine what exactly human beings are, what does it mean to be alive, how far we can go in an attempt to explore and influence so called "natural course of things".The answer to a question of whether it's ethic... More..