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Thursday January 11st, 2018 morning edition

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Your false modesty isn’t fooling anyone, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Humblebragging — defined as “bragging masked by a complaint or humility” — actually makes people like you less than straight-up self-promotion, the research says.

The findings were published recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Sezer and her team conducted a series of experiments to determine how common humblebragging is and how others perceive it.

They found that humblebragging is everywhere: Out of 646 people surveyed, 70% could recall a humblebrag they’d heard recently.

They found that regular bragging was better on both counts, because it at least comes off as genuine, Sezer says.

“I hope I don’t sound like I’m humblebragging when I talk about this research. »

SCHOOL BOARD GETS DEATH THREATS AFTER TEACHER HANDCUFFED AFTER QUESTIONING PAY RAISE

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Hargrave was removed from the school board meeting, forcibly handcuffed and jailed after questioning pay policies during a public comment period.

— A day after a Louisiana teacher was handcuffed and forcibly removed from a school board meeting for questioning the superintendent's pay raise, the school board received death threats, the board president said Tuesday.

School board President Anthony Fontana said Tuesday that the board offices were temporarily locked down after it received death threats from across the world. »

Russia has interfered in 19 countries' elections over 2 decades, report finds

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Russia has interfered in the politics, governments and affairs of 19 countries for at least two decades, according to a newly released report by U.S. Senate Democrats.

The report, titled “Putin’s Asymmetric Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for U.S. National Security,” was released Wednesday and is 206 pages long.

While the report criticizes President Donald Trump, Trump has tweeted many times that there is no collusion between himself and Russia. »