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Lift More Weights, Get More Mates: Resesarch Shows Muscular Men Have More Flings, Partners, Affairs

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Jul 09, 2007 | 4 / 5 (48) | 0

Women don't just like men with muscles — they go for them. Men who are more muscular than average are much more likely to have short-term affairs and multiple sex partners than their scrawnier peers, according to new UCLA ...

Loneliness is bad for your health

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Aug 17, 2007 | 4.4 / 5 (44) | 0

Two University of Chicago psychologists, Louise Hawkley and John Cacioppo, have been trying to disentangle social isolation, loneliness, and the physical deterioration and diseases of aging, right down to the cellular level.

Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking

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Apr 14, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (47) | 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans don’t always make the most rational decisions. As studies have shown, even when logic and reasoning point in one direction, sometimes we chose the opposite route, motivated by personal ...

Bullying more harmful than sexual harassment on the job, say researchers

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Mar 08, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (43) | 4

Workplace bullying, such as belittling comments, persistent criticism of work and withholding resources, appears to inflict more harm on employees than sexual harassment, say researchers who presented their findings at a ...

The psychology of baseball

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Mar 31, 2007 | 4.4 / 5 (43) | 0

It’s the seventh game of the World Series — bottom of the ninth inning, your team is down 4-3 with runners on second and third — and you’re on deck. You watch as your teammate gets the second out. That means you’re up with ...

The smart way to study

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Nov 18, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (40) | 4

Combine the aphorisms that "practice makes perfect" and "timing is everything" into one and you might get something resembling findings published in this month's issue of Psychological Science. Proper spacing of lessons, the re ...

Self-Compassion May be More Important Than Self-Esteem in Dealing With Negative Events, New Studies Show

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May 15, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (39) | 0

Why do some people roll with life’s punches, facing failures and problems with grace, while others dwell on calamities, criticize themselves and exaggerate problems?

Myth about 'dirty old men' supported by science

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Dec 04, 2008 | 3.4 / 5 (53) | 10

Middle-aged men want younger women, often touting their intelligence and their high income. This is shown in research at Gothenburg University and Oxford University that studied 400 lonely hearts ads to see how men and women ...

Researchers Demonstrate How Placebo Effect Works in the Brain

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Jul 30, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (40) | 0

Columbia University scientists, with colleagues from the University of Michigan, have shown how the neurochemistry of the placebo effect can relieve pain in humans. The scientists found that the placebo effect ...

Brain scans show meditation changes minds, increases attention

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Jun 27, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (39) | 0

For hundreds of years, Tibetan monks and other religious people have used meditation to calm the mind and improve concentration. This week, a new study shows exactly how one common type of meditation affects the brain.

Humans appear hardwired to learn by 'over-imitation'

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Dec 05, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (38) | 3

Children learn by imitating adults—so much so that they will rethink how an object works if they observe an adult taking unnecessary steps when using that object, according to a Yale study today in Proceedings of ...

Scientists explore how violent video games are exemplary aggression teachers

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Nov 06, 2007 | 3.5 / 5 (48) | 2

Like other fathers and sons, Douglas Gentile and his father have spent many hours arguing about video games. What makes them different is that Douglas, an Iowa State University assistant professor of psychology, is one of ...

When seeing IS believing

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Oct 02, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (37) | 9

New research published in the journal Science explains why individuals seek to find and impose order on an unruly world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations by linking a loss of control to indivi ...

When people feel powerful, they ignore new opinions, study finds

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Feb 14, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (39) | 4

Don’t bother trying to persuade your boss of a new idea while he’s feeling the power of his position – new research suggests he’s not listening to you. “Powerful people have confidence in what they are thinking. Whether their ...

Study suggests attending religious services sharply cuts risk of death

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Nov 20, 2008 | 3.1 / 5 (52) | 18

A study published by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, strongly suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately ...