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- Why do people defend unjust, inept, and corrupt systems?
- Study debunks myths about gender and math performance
- Improved medication use could reduce severe asthma attacks
- Working moms feel better than stay-at-home moms, study finds
- Few allergies in unstressed babies
- Friends and loved ones yawn together
| Why do people defend unjust, inept, and corrupt systems? Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST Why do we stick up for a system or institution we live in -- a government, company, or marriage -- even when anyone else can see it is failing miserably? Why do we resist change even when the system is corrupt or unjust? A new article illuminates the conditions under which we're motivated to defend the status quo -- a process called "system justification."  |
| Study debunks myths about gender and math performance Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some common assumptions about gender and math achievement -- in particular, the idea that girls and women have less ability due to a difference in biology.  |
| Improved medication use could reduce severe asthma attacks Posted: 12 Dec 2011 09:46 AM PST Researchers have found that one-quarter of severe asthma attacks could be prevented if only patients consistently took their medication as prescribed. Moreover, an asthma attack was only significantly reduced when patients used at least 75 percent of their prescribed dose, according to the study.  |
| Working moms feel better than stay-at-home moms, study finds Posted: 12 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST Mothers with jobs tend to be healthier and happier than moms who stay at home during their children's infancy and preschool years, according to a new study.  |
| Few allergies in unstressed babies Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:27 AM PST A new study shows that infants with low concentrations of the stress-related hormone cortisol in their saliva develop fewer allergies than other infants. Hopefully this new knowledge will be useful in future allergy prevention.  |
| Friends and loved ones yawn together Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:26 AM PST Yawning is contagious, as everybody knows. A new study shows that "yawn transmission" is more frequent, and faster, between people sharing an emotional bond: close friends, kin, and mates.  |
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