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• Quantifying cities' emotional effects
• Speaker's power to act on words influences listeners' brain response
• Marijuana use in adolescence may cause permanent brain abnormalities, mouse study suggests
• Luxury products' role in relationships revealed
• Want to stick with your diet? Better have someone hide the chocolate
• Facebook infidelity examined in new research
• Face identification accuracy is in the eye (and brain) of the beholder
• Smoking cessation two by two

Quantifying cities' emotional effects Posted: 24 Jul 2013 05:05 PM PDT A new Web tool could help measure subjective impressions of urban environments, which may have consequences for social behaviors.

Speaker's power to act on words influences listeners' brain response Posted: 24 Jul 2013 05:04 PM PDT A speaker's power to act on his words influences how a listener perceives the meaning of their message, according to new research.

Marijuana use in adolescence may cause permanent brain abnormalities, mouse study suggests Posted: 24 Jul 2013 09:50 AM PDT Regular marijuana use in adolescence, but not adulthood, may permanently impair brain function and cognition, and may increase the risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, according to a recent study.

Luxury products' role in relationships revealed Posted: 24 Jul 2013 09:49 AM PDT Purchasing designer handbags and shoes is a means for women to express their style, boost self-esteem, or even signal status. New research suggests some women also seek these luxury items to prevent other women from stealing their man.

Want to stick with your diet? Better have someone hide the chocolate Posted: 24 Jul 2013 09:49 AM PDT If you are trying to lose weight or save for the future, new research suggests avoiding temptation may increase your chances of success compared to relying on willpower alone.

Facebook infidelity examined in new research Posted: 24 Jul 2013 08:39 AM PDT Researchers looked at instances of infidelity occurring through Facebook interactions to develop a process model for the stages of coping with knowledge of the infidelity.

Face identification accuracy is in the eye (and brain) of the beholder Posted: 24 Jul 2013 07:32 AM PDT Though humans generally have a tendency to look at a region just below the eyes and above the nose toward the midline when first identifying another person, a small subset of people tend to look further down –– at the tip of the nose, for instance, or at the mouth.

Smoking cessation two by two Posted: 24 Jul 2013 07:26 AM PDT To quit smoking is not easy. Support from one's partner can help -- but only if the smokers have developed skills of their own that help them to stop, according to a new study.

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