Is there a secret sauce that helps explain why people as different as David Bowie, Samuel L. Jackson and Charli XCX all seem so self-assured and, well, cool?

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Tucked away in Columbus’s historic German Village sits a literary wonderland so vast and enchanting that bookworms regularly make pilgrimages from every corner of Ohio – The Book Loft spans an ...

The new paper is one of the few empirical studies that examines what exactly makes people “cool,” said Jonah Berger, an ...

A global study reveals the six traits people across 12 countries associate with being cool, from autonomy to adventurousness.

From Chile to China, cultures vary greatly around the globe, but people in at least a dozen countries agree about what it ...

In a global study over four years, researchers discovered that people who are seen as cool share similar traits in countries ...

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