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- Understanding personality for decision-making, longevity, and mental health
- In minutes a day, low-income families can improve their kids' health
- Want to ace that interview? Make sure your strongest competition is interviewed on a different day
- New study challenges links between daycare and behavioral issues
- Power's punishing impact: Power linked to tendency to punish harshly
- Adolescent stress linked to severe adult mental illness, mouse study suggests
- Is athleticism linked to brain size? Exercise-loving mice have larger midbrains
- Deodorants: Do we really need them?
- Engineers less empathetic than students in caring professions, study suggests
- Portrayal of spring break excess may be stereotypes gone wild
| Understanding personality for decision-making, longevity, and mental health Posted: 17 Jan 2013 03:33 PM PST Extraversion does not just explain differences between how people act at social events. How extraverted you are may influence how the brain makes choices -- specifically whether you choose an immediate or delayed reward, according to a new study. The work is part of a growing body of research on the role of understanding personality in society.  |
| In minutes a day, low-income families can improve their kids' health Posted: 17 Jan 2013 03:33 PM PST When low-income families devote three to four extra minutes to regular family mealtimes, their children's ability to achieve and maintain a normal weight improves measurably, according to a new study. "Children whose families engaged with each other over a 20-minute meal four times a week weighed significantly less than kids who left the table after 15 to 17 minutes," said one of the researchers.  |
| Want to ace that interview? Make sure your strongest competition is interviewed on a different day Posted: 17 Jan 2013 03:33 PM PST Whether an applicant receives a high or low score may have more to do with who else was interviewed that day than the overall strength of the applicant pool, according to new research.  |
| New study challenges links between daycare and behavioral issues Posted: 17 Jan 2013 12:20 PM PST Researchers from the US and Norway studied 75,000 Norwegian children and found no evidence that time spent in child care leads to behavioral problems.  |
| Power's punishing impact: Power linked to tendency to punish harshly Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:25 AM PST Providing a sense of power to someone instills a black-and-white sense of right and wrong (especially wrong), new research shows. Once armed with this moral clarity, powerful people then perceive wrongdoing with much less ambiguity than people lacking this power, and punish apparent wrong-doers with more severity than people without power would.  |
| Adolescent stress linked to severe adult mental illness, mouse study suggests Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:25 AM PST Working with mice, researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence -- a critical time for brain development -- and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause severe mental illness in those predisposed to it.  |
| Is athleticism linked to brain size? Exercise-loving mice have larger midbrains Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:33 AM PST Is athleticism linked to brain size? Researchers performed laboratory experiments on house mice and found that mice that have been bred for dozens of generations to be more exercise-loving have larger midbrains than those that have not been selectively bred this way -- the first example in which selection for a particular mammalian behavior has been shown to result in a change in size of a specific brain region.  |
| Deodorants: Do we really need them? Posted: 17 Jan 2013 05:49 AM PST More than 75 percent of people with a particular version of a gene don't produce under-arm odor but use deodorant anyway.  |
| Engineers less empathetic than students in caring professions, study suggests Posted: 17 Jan 2013 05:48 AM PST Are engineering students less empathetic than students in the caring professions? Yes, according to a new study.  |
| Portrayal of spring break excess may be stereotypes gone wild Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:54 PM PST The popular perception that college students are reaching new levels of self-indulgence and risky behavior during spring break excursions may be based on media coverage and scholarship that oversimplifies what has become an annual rite for many young adults, according to researchers.  |
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