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- Do I look bigger with my finger on a trigger? Yes, says study
- Trouble coping with the unfamiliar as you age? Blame your white matter
- New insights into when beach sand may become unsafe for digging and other contact
- Study refutes suggestion that men prefer the lady in red because of body association
| Do I look bigger with my finger on a trigger? Yes, says study Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:54 PM PDT Anthropologists asked hundreds of Americans to guess the size and muscularity of four men based solely on photographs of their hands holding a range of ordinary objects, including handguns. The research confirmed what scrawny thugs have long known: brandishing a weapon makes a man appear bigger and stronger than he would otherwise. The findings suggest an unconscious mechanism that could misguide people about the magnitude of physical threats.  |
| Trouble coping with the unfamiliar as you age? Blame your white matter Posted: 11 Apr 2012 10:19 AM PDT A brain-mapping study has found that people's ability to make decisions in novel situations decreases with age and is associated with a reduction in the integrity of two specific white-matter pathways.  |
| New insights into when beach sand may become unsafe for digging and other contact Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:05 AM PDT With summer days at the beach on the minds of millions of winter-weary people, a new study provides health departments with information needed to determine when levels of disease-causing bacteria in beach sand could pose a risk to children and others who dig or play in the sand.  |
| Study refutes suggestion that men prefer the lady in red because of body association Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:03 AM PDT The color red has long been associated with women's sexual attractiveness, but a new study has shown that this is not linked to any association in men's minds with the redness of women's genitalia.  |
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