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Study of Olympic athletes shows that pride and shame are universal and innate expressions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 11, 2008 |
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The victory stance of a gold medalist and the slumped shoulders of a non-finalist are innate and biological rather than learned responses to success and failure, according to a University of British Columbia study using cross-cultural ...
Study: Facial expressions of emotion are innate, not learned
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 29, 2008 |
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Facial expressions of emotion are hardwired into our genes, according to a study published today in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The research suggests that facial expressions of emotio ...
Thinking of you: Studies of blind reveal how we think about other people
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Human beings constantly make inferences about other people's state of mind, usually without even realizing they are doing it. Cognitive scientists call this ability "theory of mind," and until recently, not ...
Researcher investigates how the gestures of the blind differ across cultures
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Gestures serve an important role in language learning and development, and differ depending upon the language and culture, notes a Georgia State University researcher who is investigating how children born ...
Emory study of syphilis bacteria yields valuable diagnostic tool
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Variations in a gene within the family of bacteria that causes syphilis may hold clinical, epidemiological and evolutionary significance, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta have found.
Adult gut can generate new neurons
Aug 04, 2009 |
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The adult lower digestive tract can be stimulated to add neurons to the intestinal system, according to new mouse research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that drugs similar to the ne ...
Virus weaves itself into the DNA transferred from parents to babies
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Parents expect to pass on their eye or hair color, their knobby knees or their big feet to their children through their genes. But they don't expect to pass on viruses through those same genes.
