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      • By Daisy Grewal, Ingrid Wickelgren on June 15, 2012
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      ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

        Daisy Grewal holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University. She is a research scientist on the people analytics team at Intuit in Mountain View, Calif.

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          Ingrid Wickelgren is a freelance science journalist based in New Jersey.

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