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There are good ____ why open-office plans have gained currency, but open offices may not be the plan of choice for all times.

____, the right plan seems to be building a culture of change.

Overly rigid habits and conventions, no ____ how well-considered or well-intentioned, threaten innovation.

The ____ take-away from analyzing office plans over time is that the answers keep changing.

It might seem that there is a straight line of progress, but it’s a ____.

Surveying ____ spaces from the past eighty years, one can see a cycle that repeats.

Comparing the offices of the 1940s with contemporary office spaces shows that they have ____ back around to essentially the same style, via a period in the 1980s when partitions and cubicles were more the norm.

The technologies and colors may differ, but the 1940s and 2000s ____ are alike, right down to the pillars running down the middle.

One ____ why we are not all sitting in a cold and dark cave right now is that progress makes us happy.

Joy often comes from perceiving yourself as moving forward, changing, learning, and ____.

____ research conducted in London by two neuroscientists, Bastien Blain and Robb Rutledge.

They had ____ report their feelings every few minutes while playing a new game.

They found that the volunteers were happiest not when they gained the highest amount of money in the game (although that did make them happy too), but when they learned about the ____.

Learning contributed more to happiness ____ money.

You habituate to things — a fancy car, a large-screen TV — but you don’t habituate to the joy of learning ____ learning by definition is change.

One cannot habituate to ____.

In Oscar Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest, ____ Worthing tells his love interest, Gwendolen Fairfax, that she is perfect.

She replies, “Oh! I hope I am ____ that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.”

Over the course of human history, researchers have discovered that humans’ ____ ancestors were not able to use verbal language.

In fact, verbal language likely began with Homo ____, although some scholars have noted that bone structures in Neanderthals may have allowed for complex sound to be vocalized.

However, primates of all sorts are able to live in community and share the ____ of labor, including caring for children and sharing food that has been hunted or gathered.

How did such interactions occur if verbal language ____ a part of the lives of our early ancestors?

Nonverbal communication like grunts or slight vocalizations was likely the early auditory form of communication, and facial expressions or gestures may have indicated important things like danger or social ____ or even the presence of spoiled meat.

The idea that nonverbal communication came first over the course of our species’ evolution is known as phylogenetic primacy, highlighting that our nonhuman ancestors had likely figured out social signaling before ____ existed in our current form.

____ are we so sensitive to negative information and criticism?

Well, it seems to have offered a survival advantage for early humans, when the threat of rejection from the tribe ____ mean death.

This left us disproportionately sensitive to threats, ____ the merely interpersonal threat of looking bad in the eyes of others.

Today, many of the interpersonal threats we detect in our day-to-day lives are not truly harmful, but we’re hardwired to react, even overreact, to ____.

We also suffer from what celebrated psychologist Daniel Kahneman called “loss aversion” — a tendency to ____ losses (of money, possessions, or even social status) compared to equivalent wins.

In ____ study, participants were given a coffee mug and later offered the chance to sell it.

To part with their mug, participants ____ to be given twice as much in compensation as the amount they were willing to pay to acquire the mug. Irrational, yes.

And profoundly ____. We don’t want to lose; we don’t want to fail.

The pain of failing, even in simple activities, is more emotionally salient than the ____ of succeeding.

Discovering what happens in the brain when we are captivated by beautiful objects won’t completely solve the question of ____ the objects are beautiful.

To address the why question, we turn to ____ psychology.

The basic idea of evolutionary psychology is that our mental abilities, ____ our physical traits, evolved if they enhanced our survival.

Our ancestors from a distant past adapted certain behavioral traits to survive tough environments and to choose partners that would give ____ healthy children.

When it ____ to beauty in people, certain physical features of faces and bodies advertised a person’s health.

____ features, which were important in choosing a mate tens of thousands of years ago, are what we now regard as beautiful.

When it comes to beauty in scenes, some places were more inviting to our hunter-gatherer ancestors wandering around in the distant ____.

These scenes looked both safe and rich in resources that would help small bands ____ a life that was tough, brutish, and a long time ago.

Obviously, not all habits constitute knowledge because not all ____ are acquired with predictive, regulatory, or manipulative intent.

In fact, ____ habits emerge from the casual reinforcement of random associations that are not part of a learning plan.

____ agents may not be entirely aware of all the associations between habitual actions and their context of execution, a minimal layer of pragmatic expectations is always attached to habitual behavior.

There is no assurance that habits developed unintentionally are advantageous for agents because there is no guarantee that such habits would ____ carry out expert tasks.

For example, vices are blind, harmful, and ____ compulsive behaviors, often called “bad habits.”

In sport, we find kinematic and biomechanical inefficiencies, acquired ____ in development, that become ingrained in such fashion, for example, cyclists who significantly sway their shoulders trying to increase pedalling power rather than minimizing unnecessary upper body movements.

Habits do ____ necessarily support goal-oriented tasks nor are all habits learned for a specific purpose; hence it is correct to state that not all sensorimotor habits convey practical knowledge.