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Evidence appears to show how and where frontal lobe works
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(Physorg.com) -- A Brown University study of stroke victims has produced evidence that the frontal lobe of the human brain controls decision-making along a continuum from abstract to concrete, from front to ...
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Politicians can use fear to manipulate the public
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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A new study in the American Journal of Political Science explores how and when politicians can use fear to manipulate the public into supporting policies they might otherwise oppose. Politicians' use of fear is more likely ...
Study Finds How the Brain Interprets the Intent of Others
Feb 17, 2006 |
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Two Dartmouth researchers have learned more about how the human brain interprets the actions and intentions of others.
Popular diabetes treatment could trigger pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer
Apr 30, 2009 |
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A drug widely used to treat Type 2 diabetes may have unintended effects on the pancreas that could lead to a form of low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreatic cancer in long-term users, UCLA ...
Women who exit welfare just as likely to marry as women never on welfare
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A new study from a recent issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family shows that women who exit welfare (under TANF, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), are as likely to marry as women of similar socioeconomic backgr ...
Children show goal-oriented behavior by age 3
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Hang on, parents. After the terrible twos come the goal-oriented threes. Kids seem to grow into the ability to act in pursuit of goals outside of what they can immediately sense sometime around that age, according to a new ...
Moral dilemma scenarios prone to biases
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Picture the following hypothetical scenario: A trolley is headed toward five helpless victims. The trolley can be redirected so that only one person's life is at stake. Psychologists and philosophers have been using moral ...
Brain's action center is all talk
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Sep 18, 2006 |
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Neuroscience is tackling a problem that obsessed Hamlet: What is the difference in our minds between talk and action? Less than you would expect, an international research group reports in the Sept. 19 issue ...
The developing child: Rating aggressive and delinquent behavior in pre-adolescence
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2009 |
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In a study published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry researchers show that over reactive parenting, such as heavy criticism or yelling as a response to a child's negative behavior, can pr ...
Building real security with virtual worlds
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...
Why we learn more from our successes than our failures
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from experience when we ...
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