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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
The Wharton School’s Maurice Schweitzer weighed in on intentionally high-pressure job interviews, which are “neither new, nor on their way to extinction.” The format, he said, is the result of “managers who work in a high-stress environment, managers who experience excess demand for jobs in their firm, and managers who believe that they can learn how people deal with stress by stressing them out in an interview.”
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The Graduate School of Education’s Alexandra Michel discussed investment bankers’ career challenges. “The reward at the end of the year depends on your evaluation in relation to others. And you don’t know what they’re producing. You just know that they’re super smart and that they’re working super hard.”
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Maurice Schweitzer of the Wharton School discussed the phenomenon of “elastic justification,” in which people may exaggerate traits or skills that are hard to quantify, like language proficiency.
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Reagan Wetherill of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed “inherent brain vulnerabilities, and genetic vulnerabilities,” that put adolescents at risk of future alcohol abuse.
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Marissa Sharif of the Wharton School suggests that “low-cost cheating” and building “emergency reserves” can help people reach their goals.
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Edward Mansfield of the School of Arts and Sciences comments on studying tipping customs and how they spread to different regions.
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Eugene Kiely of FactCheck.org in the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about whether or not Hillary Clinton benefited from a uranium deal with Russia.
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Research led by Amanda Holt and Alison Sweeney of the School of Arts & Sciences about open water camouflage is cited.
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Yana Kamberov of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the production of sweat glands being connected to the production of hair.
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Vanessa Ogle of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about calendar reform.