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Research published in the Journal of Personality suggests that self-confidence is important for men’s courting success and — with a simple speed-dating tutorial — this confidence can be trained. The psychology literature suggests that social confidence is an admired trait that offers its wearers a host of benefits, such as gaining friendships, getting promotions at work, and making more sales. While this topic has been extensively studied, study authors Norman P. Li and colleagues noted a gap in the research. The researchers explain that most of the previous studies have focused on a person’s perceptions of their own competence — and not how their self-confidence is perceived by others. “I often noticed that confidence is something that people say is highly desirable, and it also struck me that many of the techniques or strategies that people suggest or teach for handling tough social situations—whether in romance, sales, work, or just everyday stuff—seem to involve improving a person’s confidence in two ways: how confident you yourself feel, and how confident others perceive you to be,” explained Li, an associate professor at Singapore Management University. “Although both are closely related, there has been little to no formal research on how other people’s perceptions matter. Yet, in social situations, that seems to be extremely important.” In a series of three studies, Li and team set out to explore the role of self-confidence in the high-stakes social situation of speed-dating. In addition, they were interested to see whether this type of self-confidence can be trained. In an initial study, 68 male undergraduate students were assigned to either watch a roughly 3-hour speed-dating tutorial, a 3-hour general conversation tutorial, or neither. A week later, all the men partook in a speed-dating session where they conversed with up to six female undergraduate students for four minutes each. The women, who were also study participants, were asked to evaluate the men across several measures. The researchers found that men who had watched the speed-dating tutorial were rated higher in social confidence, dominance, status, and romantic desirability, compared to the men who saw no tutorial. Interestingly, the women’s perceptions of the men’s social confidence mediated the effects of the speed-dating tutorial on romantic desirability — but ratings of men’s dominance and status did not. This suggests that social confidence is important for men’s desirability to women, above and beyond the traits of status and dominance. A second study replicated these effects using a within-subjects design. This time, 60 male undergraduates were rated by the same three female undergraduates, again during 4-minute speed dating sessions. “Coming across as confident in a social situation is highly desirable, and you don’t have to be a natural. Indeed, many social situations can seem intimidating because we are being evaluated by others and have a lot on the line, and we may be unfamiliar with the setting,” Li told PsyPost. “We can improve confidence and the likelihood of a favorable evaluation by simply gaining some familiarity and training and viewing the situation as not so intimidating.” A final study was driven by a new question — if such tutorials are so effective, then why isn’t everyone watching them? The researchers proposed that it might be because partaking in such training is perceived as disingenuous. “For instance,” Li and colleagues say, “if other people somehow knew that an individual had undergone training to learn how best to handle an evaluative social interaction, this may undermine confidence perceptions and lead to negative evaluations of that person – in particular, lowered perceived trustworthiness.” The researchers recruited two groups of men — one group who had recently undergone a dating-skills training, and one group who had not. The men then partook in a speed-dating session with 46 female undergraduate students. Before meeting each partner, the women were covertly told that their male partner had either undergone a dating-skills training or had not. Importantly, the men were randomly assigned to be presented as either having undergone training or not, regardless of whether or not they had actually taken the training course. Interestingly, the women rated the men who they believed had undergone dating training higher in social confidence, but lower in trustworthiness and romantic desirability. The women were also less likely to choose the men who they believed had undergone training as potential long-term partners. “Thus,” the researchers infer, “a drawback and potential reason why more men (at least those men interested in long-term relationships) don’t seek out tutorials or training to boost their confidence in social situations may be that others, if they find out, may view them as disingenuous and less, rather than more, desirable.” It could be that women may see these trainings as deceptive attempts to improve “surface impressions” rather than actually improve traits. “Thus far, we have only looked at women evaluating men in a mating context. More research is needed to see if men’s perceptions of female confidence is sexy, and to examine others’ perceptions of confidence in other social domains such as the workplace,” Li said. “We believe getting familiar with a certain context and viewing it in a nonthreatening way can lead to feeling and coming across as confident in that context, but more studies are needed to verify that.” Li added: “There is an evolutionary logic behind why we pay attention to confidence and why it makes an effective impression on others. Interested readers can check out the paper: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3228/” The study, “Confidence is sexy and it can be trained: Examining male social confidence in initial, opposite‐sex interactions”, was authored by Norman P. Li, Jose C. Yong, Ming‐Hong Tsai, Mark H. C. Lai, Amy J. Y. Lim, and Joshua M. Ackerman. psypost.org

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Sets Set types can hold multiple properties or characteristics in one variable. Sets are used only with ordinal values. For example, if we need to define the operating system's support for applications, we can do it as in the following: 1. Define ordinal type that represents operating systems: TApplicationEnv: TApplicationEnv = (aeLinux, aeMac, aeWindows); 2. Define the application as set of TApplicationEnv: for example: FireFox: set of TApplicationEnv; 3. Put operating system values in the application set variable: FireFox:= [aeLinux, aeWindows]; program Sets; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses {$IFDEF UNIX}{$IFDEF UseCThreads} cthreads, {$ENDIF}{$ENDIF} Classes { you can add units after this }; type TApplicationEnv = (aeLinux, aeMac, aeWindows); var FireFox: set of TApplicationEnv; SuperTux: set of TApplicationEnv; Delphi: set of TApplicationEnv; Lazarus: set of TApplicationEnv; begin FireFox:= [aeLinux, aeWindows]; SuperTux:= [aeLinux]; Delphi:= [aeWindows]; Lazarus:= [aeLinux, aeMac, aeWindows]; if aeLinux in Lazarus then Writeln('There is a version for Lazarus under Linux') else Writeln('There is no version of Lazarus under linux'); if aeLinux in SuperTux then Writeln('There is a version for SuperTux under Linux') else Writeln('There is no version of SuperTux under linux'); if aeMac in SuperTux then Writeln('There is a version for SuperTux under Mac') else Writeln('There is no version of SuperTux under Mac'); Readln; end. Also we can use set syntax for other ordinal types, like Integers: if Month in [1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12] then Writeln('This month contains 31 days'); Or character: if Char in ['a', 'A'] then Writeln('This letter is A');

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Senior dogs are typically harder to find homes for than younger puppies but are no less in need of a home. To help encourage their adoption, the Flagler Humane Society has playfully dressed these older dogs as senior citizens in an ongoing photo series. As reported by CBS News and My Modern Met, the idea for the photo shoot was originally created as part of the “Clear the Shelters” month of August earlier this year, but has continued through November as it is “Adopt a Senior Pet Month.” The Humane Society staff brainstormed ways to aid in the adoption of these dogs, and since one of the office managers, Kyndra Mott, was a photographer, they came up with the fun promotion. The result is an ongoing series of photos featuring a dog in need of a home dressed in hats, wigs, and glasses and accompanied by bags and jewelry normally seen on human senior citizens. The adoption campaign has largely been successful, as more prospective adopters have become aware of the animals: on the last reported update, all but three of the senior dogs have found homes. The Flagler Humane Society is based in Palm Coast, Florida, and is committed to the welfare of animals. The organization provides shelter and care them as well as programs and access to services that aim to enhance the bond between animals and people. The organization was founded in 1980 and takes in unwanted animals in Flagler County and the surrounding areas. If you’re interested in adopting any of these dogs or others who need homes, you can contact your local humane society or donate to the American Humane Society. If you’re in the Flagler County area, you can reach out to the Flagler Humane Society specifically here. petapixel.com

I first came to the hospital back in June, having decided that the stories and experiences of the front line staff shouldn’t be forgotten. We’d all seen inside the Italian hospitals, but when the virus hit the UK, there was nothing coming out of the UK, so I made it my mission to gain access and document the life and death struggles going on behind closed doors. This project is unique, and through it, we have a chance to see what it was like inside a COVID hospital at the peak of the pandemic and hear from the front line staff in their own words what they were going through. The Kickstarter book will also help these very same people because all of the royalties are being given to the hospital’s charity, and used only to improve the staff’s working lives. It is a chance to give back to the people who have given so much. I’ve had some scary photo shoots before, the floor of a nuclear power station is pretty up there, as is the time I had to jump on the back of a motorcycle taxi to escape an angry crowd that had me surrounded, but this was different, and I remember walking in for the first time feeling rather scared. I was knowingly going into a coronavirus hot spot, repeatedly and over many days, back when there were no tests to diagnose the virus and no cast-iron guarantees of how to avoid catching it. My heart was in my mouth when for the first time I went into a ‘Red Room’ — one with a confirmed Coronavirus patient. I was there to photograph the medical staff as they treated him, and I was both excited and worried as I pulled on the PPE gown, mask, visor, and gloves. It struck me as a bit stupid that I could hardly see through the viewfinder, but in a way that probably helped me concentrate on the photography rather than my worries. It would be pointless to put myself and my assistant in danger if I didn’t even get the shot. The general atmosphere in the hospital was intimidating. People were rushing to and fro, always on the way somewhere, or gliding by pushing beds with silent occupants. And it’s not surprising that many people didn’t want to be photographed. They’d been, and in fact were, going through so much. They’d tell me stories of incredible suffering and heartache, such as the physiotherapist seconded into ITU who “could still hear all the beeping and the alarms in my ears when I got home, sitting in a dark quiet room,” or the nurse who told me “I still have nightmares at least three times a week and I know I’m not the only one in there.” And so it became incredibly important that I approach the people, who nearly always didn’t know to expect me, with a great deal of tact and understanding. A portrait is a photograph of a person who has volunteered to share themselves, for better or worse, with the photographer – they’ve made the decision that they’ll let a stranger in, and show them who they actually are. That’s a big ask at any time, let alone when surrounded by “the most intense pain and grief and suffering.” And so how do you as a photographer, make a connection in such terrible circumstances? It’s easier to say what not to do. That’s because each person is a world unto themselves. The bridge that the photographer has to build between them and their subject has to relate to them, and not the photographer, and so you can’t come at it with a list or a recipe — otherwise, you’re only taking a portrait of yourself. So this is how it goes: I’m standing there in a corridor or a ward, lights and set up ready, and I’m feeling anxious about interrupting people as they scoot past. There’s a tug of war happening inside me, one part saying run away so I don’t leave myself open to their rejection, and the other half, the half that eventually wins, picks up when someone slightly slows down or slightly orientates themselves in my direction. But why did they do that? Why are they open? That’s the question I now resolve to answer. It’s time – time for me to step out and try to find a bridge of some description. It’s always the most nerve-wracking moment, and it’s not something that I enjoy. I also never know what I’m going to say or do, which is doubly worrying! I’m often as much of a spectator as anyone else as to what’s going to come out of my mouth, but I’ve taken a decision that this is the way that it should be done, this is the way that it has to be, and so I follow my own lead – I genuinely want to know why they’re different from all the rest. The present is a dangerous place which is why so many people avoid it at all costs. But to take a portrait, you have to be present with the other person, and place yourself in the precarious position of not knowing what will happen next. These kinds of portraits require that. And it’s partly that unknowing, that makes me love this phase of the shoot so much. It’s like racing down a steep slope on a rickey go-cart, knowing that you may well wipe out, but you also might fly triumphantly onwards, reaching your unknown destination in glorious technicolor. And in the hospital, that feeling of being on the way to an unknown destination was heightened because I needed to have something much more meaningful than a regular conversation. I had to ask them about situations and events that were incredibly painful – literally about the life and death of them, their patients and their families, and all that goes into that – and ask them to go back there and tell me about it. It kinda spooks me, thinking about it now, because of the enormity of what I was asking them to do. But I remember feeling that we were both high up, on a level far above that of a regular mundane moment. It was both enlivening and chastening to be elevated so precipitously without a net beneath, only the two of us. It all felt so fast, and so precarious. And the difficult thing about photography is that you’re doing two mutually exclusive things at the same time. On the one hand, you are present and together with the other person; and on the other, you’re attending to the technical side of things which are constantly trying to strip you clean of the moment: is the exposure right, the location appropriate, does the composition or lighting need changing, how would they react to me doing that … is the lens cap on? When you get it wrong, the sense of loss is huge. I’m sure every photographer knows the feeling when one of the spinning plates comes down. Sometimes you’ll only realize it hours or even days later. And here in the hospital, I was continually worried that I was in the wrong place, or taking the wrong approach, or going after the wrong thing. The weight of all the people’s experiences sometimes felt so heavy – what if I just wasn’t up to the job of translating these people’s experiences? What if they were telling, for the first time, the most extreme events of their lives to a stranger, and all for nothing? The project is now a book, and I like to think that people are alive inside it. As you leaf through, it feels to me that you’re almost walking along the corridors or wards with them, or taking the buses home, or greeting their families on their return. I think also that inside it we can learn how to look after our own selves because so many of the people here are figuring out how to care for themselves too. What has happened at the hospital, let’s not kid ourselves, is trauma en masse. Many of these people, on these pages, have undergone trauma on a scale unknown outside of war. And indeed, there have been more deaths of British hospital staff in 6 months than the British armed forces suffered during 12 years of war in Afghanistan, and 6 years of war in Iraq, combined. Combined. It’s not normal, what they’ve been through, and I think, I hope, that this book tells their stories. These are their words, and these are their images. petapixel.com

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