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Maybe that big mouth is an asset after all

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Big mouth

Re, D. & Rule, N., “The Big Man Has a Big Mouth: Mouth Width Correlates with Perceived Leadership Ability and Actual Leadership Performance,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (March 2016).

Diverse benefits

Trawalter, S. et al., “What Is Good Isn’t Always Fair: On the Unintended Effects of Framing Diversity as Good,” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (forthcoming).

Regional affluenza

Steckel, R. & Senney, G., “Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South,” National Bureau of Economic Research (December 2015).

In the red

Myers, B. & Saretto, A., “Does Capital Structure Affect the Behavior of Nonfinancial Stakeholders? An Empirical Investigation into Leverage and Union Strikes,” Management Science (forthcoming).


Kevin Lewis is an Ideas columnist. He can be reached at kevin.lewis.ideas@gmail.com.