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- Reputation can trump money: Reputation concerns can encourage people to take part in real world 'public-good' programs
- Pregnant women with severe morning sickness who take antihistamines are significantly more likely to experience adverse outcomes
- Reduced brain volume in kids with low birth-weight tied to academic struggles
- Early exposure to bisphenol A might damage the enamel of teeth
- Frequent binge drinking is associated with insomnia symptoms in older adults
- People are overly confident in their own knowledge, despite errors
- Designated drivers don't always abstain: One in three are impaired, study suggests
| Posted: 10 Jun 2013 12:21 PM PDT Using enrollment in a California blackout prevention program as an experimental test bed, a team of researchers showed that while financial incentives boosted participation only slightly, making participation in the program observable –- through the use of sign-up sheets posted in apartment buildings -– produced a three-fold increase in sign-ups.  |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2013 12:20 PM PDT Women with a severe form of morning sickness who take antihistamines to help them sleep through their debilitating nausea are significantly more likely to experience adverse pregnancy outcomes, including low birth weight babies and premature births.  |
| Reduced brain volume in kids with low birth-weight tied to academic struggles Posted: 10 Jun 2013 10:35 AM PDT An analysis of recent data from magnetic resonance imaging of 97 adolescents who were part of study begun with very low birth weight babies born in 1982-1986 in a Cleveland neonatal intensive care unit has tied smaller brain volumes to poor academic achievement.  |
| Early exposure to bisphenol A might damage the enamel of teeth Posted: 10 Jun 2013 10:32 AM PDT Are teeth the latest victims of bisphenol A? Yes, according to the conclusions of new work. Researchers have shown that the teeth of rats treated with low daily doses of BPA could be damaged by this.  |
| Frequent binge drinking is associated with insomnia symptoms in older adults Posted: 10 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT A new study suggests that frequent binge drinking is associated with insomnia symptoms in older adults.  |
| People are overly confident in their own knowledge, despite errors Posted: 10 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT Overprecision -- excessive confidence in the accuracy of our beliefs -- can have profound consequences, inflating investors' valuation of their investments, leading physicians to gravitate too quickly to a diagnosis, even making people intolerant of dissenting views. Now, new research confirms that overprecision is a common and robust form of overconfidence driven, at least in part, by excessive certainty in the accuracy of our judgments.  |
| Designated drivers don't always abstain: One in three are impaired, study suggests Posted: 10 Jun 2013 05:40 AM PDT Maybe better call that cab, after all: A new study found that 35 percent of designated drivers had quaffed alcohol and most had blood-alcohol levels high enough to impair their driving.  |
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