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  2. These college majors are popular with cocky students

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    Undergrads studying business-related fields, like political science, law, business administration and economics are overconfident, according to a new study.

  3. Curiosity - Wikipedia

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    The term curiosity can also denote the behavior, characteristic, or emotion of being curious, in regard to the desire to gain knowledge or information. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is the driving force behind human development, such as progress in science, language, and industry. [5]

  4. Soft skills - Wikipedia

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    The term "soft skills" was created by the U.S. Army in the late 1960s. It refers to any skill that does not employ the use of machinery. The military realized that many important activities were included within this category, and in fact, the social skills necessary to lead groups, motivate soldiers, and win wars were encompassed by skills they had not yet catalogued or fully studied.

  5. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    Further, the relationship between openness and GPA was mediated by reflective learning styles (synthesis-analysis and elaborative processing). These latter results suggest that being intellectually curious fully enhances academic performance when students combine this scholarly interest with thoughtful information processing.

  6. Business studies - Wikipedia

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    Business Studies is taught at the higher secondary level (Class 11 and 12) for students who have taken the Commerce Stream subject. According to the Central Board of Secondary Education, Business Studies is a compulsory subject for Commerce Stream along with Economics and Accountancy students. At the state board, the subject code for Business ...

  7. Openness to experience - Wikipedia

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    Openness to experience is one of the domains which are used to describe human personality in the Five Factor Model. [1] [2] Openness involves six facets, or dimensions: active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety (adventurousness), intellectual curiosity, and challenging authority (psychological liberalism). [3]

  8. Quiz bowl - Wikipedia

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    In September 1990, the Academic Competition Federation (ACF) was founded as the first major alternative to The College Bowl Company. [11] National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) was founded in 1996 and currently organizes national competitions at all levels in the United States and supplies tournament questions for grade school and college ...

  9. Active listening - Wikipedia

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    Active listening is the practice of preparing to listen, observing what verbal and non-verbal messages are being sent, and then providing appropriate feedback for the sake of showing attentiveness to the message being presented. [1] Active listening is listening to understand. [2]