Microsoft says the policy switch isn't meant to "encourage partners to regularly use a lower screen resolution", and it warns that such dimensions will be incompatible with Windows 8's split-screen feature, known as "snap".

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They switch from being targets of demonization and dehumanization to potential partners in reciprocal altruism.

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The researchers also found that people used text messaging to switch between "identities", such as men who were out with their friends preferring to send their partners text messages rather than talking to them.

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