Jack Goncalo at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has found that people primed to stand out from their peers subsequently performed much better on a creativity test than those that had been encouraged to conform to a group.
Many had expected Italy's prime minister to stand down if he failed to secure a sufficiently large majority.
Senior figures in No 10 confirmed that discussions on a timetable for the prime minister to stand down were under way.
To begin with Barry Sheerman, who had previously called for the prime minister to stand down, was being put up by the rebels.
The PML (N) also objects to the decision of Asif Zardari, the PPP's leader and widower of Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister, to stand in the indirect election to choose Mr Musharraf's successor, to be held on September 6th.
Fifteen Labour MPs had signed a letter asking the Prime Minister to "stand aside" for the sake of the party "as a matter of urgency", but this was just the visible part of the iceberg.
A Daily Telegraph/YouGov poll today is likely to add to some Labour MPs' concern that Gordon Brown's ability to beat David Cameron is fading as he waits for the prime minister to stand down.
The chief executive officer of the Public Health Association Australia, Michael Moore, wrote to Malcolm Turnbull over the weekend urging the prime minister to stand firm against the US push to lengthen biologics monopolies.
Ponta, the country's only sitting prime minister to stand trial for corruption, had been under pressure to resign from Iohannis, who defeated him in last November's presidential election.
What is more, it seems unlikely that Mr. Monti's successor will be as good as he is — and it would be hard for the prime minister to stand for election himself without going back on his word and so undermining what he stands for.
Lawyers in two cases now before US District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin in New York are pressing Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, to stand by his commitment to fight terrorism by any means by granting permission for a former Israeli counter-terrorism agent to testify.
