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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cell phones to their ears, a team of research participants will report their interpersonal interactions in real time to provide a better view of human behavior thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Aging as part of the National Institutes of Health's American Recover and Reinvestment Act funding. http://www.physorg.com/news178307739.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:02 EST news178307739 (PhysOrg.com) -- The origins of altruism, the willingness to make personal sacrifices for the benefit of others often unknown to us, has perplexed evolutionary social scientists and biologists for years. http://www.physorg.com/news175522198.html Other Sciences Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:10:33 EST news175522198 (PhysOrg.com) -- Not surprisingly, Robert Lynch begins his research paper "It's Funny Because We Think It's True: Laughter is Augmented by Implicit Preferences" with a joke. Not his joke, but one taken from a toast Homer Simpson makes in a 2004 episode of The Simpsons: "To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." http://www.physorg.com/news174761834.html Other Sciences Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:58:01 EST news174761834 You're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence. http://www.physorg.com/news173112935.html Other Sciences Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:56:25 EST news173112935 Researchers at Brown University and the University of Arizona have determined that variations of three different genes in the brain (called single-nucleotide polymorphisms) may help predict a person's tendency to make certain choices. http://www.physorg.com/news167315962.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:10:04 EST news167315962 We humans prefer to be addressed in our right ear and are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left. In a series of three studies, looking at ear preference in communication between humans, Dr. Luca Tommasi and Daniele Marzoli from the University "Gabriele d'Annunzio" in Chieti, Italy, show that a natural side bias, depending on hemispheric asymmetry in the brain, manifests itself in everyday human behavior. Their findings were just published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften. http://www.physorg.com/news164973522.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:59:23 EST news164973522 What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether their dog had really committed an offense, Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, uncovered the origins of the `guilty look` in dogs in the recently published `Canine Behaviour and Cognition` Special Issue of Elsevier`s Behavioural Processes. http://www.physorg.com/news163918477.html Other Sciences Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:55:29 EST news163918477 Industrial engineers Sandra Garrett of Clemson University and Barrett Caldwell of Purdue University have proposed a new system to warn of an impending pandemic by monitoring signals in human behavior. The system could result in using a simple icon on a television screen to warn of future phases of an outbreak of an illness such as the flu. http://www.physorg.com/news161352243.html Medicine & Health Tue, 12 May 2009 13:04:27 EST news161352243 Statewide weight loss competitions appear to be a potentially successful weapon in the battle against obesity. These programs can produce weight loss in large numbers of people at minimal cost, according to a new study from The Miriam Hospital and Brown University. http://www.physorg.com/news160408727.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 14:59:17 EST news160408727 The threat of snakes gave primates superior vision and large brains -- and fueled a critical aspect of human evolution, UC Davis anthropology professor Lynne Isbell argues in a new book. http://www.physorg.com/news160389288.html Biology Fri, 01 May 2009 09:35:46 EST news160389288 (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 bias or simply "wishful thinking." This paradoxical human behavior has resisted explanation by classical decision theory for over a decade. But now, scientists have shown that a quantum probability model can provide a simple explanation for human decision-making - and may eventually help explain the success of human cognition overall. http://www.physorg.com/news158928941.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:56:09 EST news158928941 Most of us remember our teenage years with a mix of fondness and relief. Fondness for the good memories, and relief that all that teenage stress, angst and drama - first love, gossip, SATs, fights with parents - is behind us. http://www.physorg.com/news155939116.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:25:35 EST news155939116