Up Your Online Dating Game with Evidence-Based Strategies
Up Your Online Dating Game with Evidence-Based Strategies
Choosing a user name starting with a letter appearing earlier in the alphabet is just one scientifically vetted way to i... Read more
14 Feb 2015
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Junk Diet Rewires Rat Brains
Junk Diet Rewires Rat Brains
High-calorie and exceedingly pleasurable foods appear to change rat brain rewards circuitry, causing the rodents to cont... Read more
7 Feb 2015
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High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing
High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing
Parkinson’s patients derived more benefits from a salt solution they were told was an expensive drug than from the same ... Read more
31 Jan 2015
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Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits
Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits
Of studies presented at conferences, those that found a cognitive benefit to bilingualism were almost twice as likely to... Read more
31 Dec 2014
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Inclusion Illusion Lessens Racial Bias
Inclusion Illusion Lessens Racial Bias
Implicit bias against another race lessened after volunteers experienced themselves via virtual reality as a member of t... Read more
20 Dec 2014
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Blood Test Forecasts Concussion Severity
Blood Test Forecasts Concussion Severity
Levels of a protein fragment in the blood paralleled how long head injuries benched hockey players. Ingrid Wickelgren re... Read more
16 Dec 2014
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1min
Bouncy Gait Improves Mood
Bouncy Gait Improves Mood
If you're in an up mood, you may walk more energetically. But a study finds that purposefully walking more energetically... Read more
8 Dec 2014
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Synchronized Walking Reduces Opponent's Perceived Size
Synchronized Walking Reduces Opponent's Perceived Size
Subjects who kept pace with a walking colleague estimated a potential enemy to be smaller and lighter than did other wal... Read more
9 Nov 2014
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Big Parental Control May Stunt Kid Assertiveness
Big Parental Control May Stunt Kid Assertiveness
Young adults who’d had highly controlling parents were less able to stress their own viewpoints to a friend or partner i... Read more
3 Nov 2014
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Lots or Little Sleep Linked to Sick Days
Lots or Little Sleep Linked to Sick Days
Absence from work due to illness increased dramatically for those who slept less than six hours or more than nine hours ... Read more
29 Sep 2014
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