News tagged with behaviours
Fruit flies sick from mating
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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Mating can be exhausting. When fruit flies mate, the females' genes are activated to roughly the same extent as when an immune reaction starts. This is shown in a study at Uppsala University that is now appearing ...
How to create less selfish societies?
Feb 06, 2009 |
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(GPEARI, Portugal) -- Cooperation, despite being now considered the third force of evolution, just behind mutation and natural selection, is difficult to explain in the context of an evolutionary process based on competition ...
Schizophrenic patients' frozen faces harm social interactions
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Non-verbal communication, in the form of facial expressions, may be impaired in people with schizophrenia. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions have shown that defici ...
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New approach to detect autism earlier
Jan 24, 2008 |
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A new way of understanding autistic disorders, incorporating both psychological and biological factors, could lead to the conditions being picked up earlier, research from UNSW has found.
Study finds cannabis use, dangerous driving behaviors interrelated
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Mar 11, 2009 |
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Thrill-seeking young men are more likely to drive under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) and engage in reckless driving, according to a new Université de Montréal study. As reported in the journal Accident An ...
Cultural games change attitudes
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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Persuasive technologies such as educational video games are more effective at changing people's attitudes or behaviours when they are adapted to a specific cultural audience.
Claiming benefits improves the health of the unemployed
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Unemployment benefits help reduce the negative health-related behaviours often associated with being unemployed. A study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health has found that unemployment benefits recipients are le ...
'Erasing' drug-associated memories may stop drug addiction relapses
Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Erasing' drug-associated memories may prevent recovering drug abusers from relapsing, researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered.
Childhood mental health problems blight adult working life
Apr 03, 2008 |
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Mental health problems in childhood blight adult working life, suggests research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. And problems in working life are associated with mid life depression and an ...
Why your boss is white, middle-class and a show-off
Oct 03, 2008 |
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The way male managers power dress, posture and exercise power is due to humans' evolutionary biology, according to research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
How green is your house? Recycling favorite activity among Brits says new survey
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Seventy percent of households always separate their rubbish for recycling, but only 2 percent buy their energy on a green tariff, according to the early findings of a major new annual household survey, called "Understanding ...
Few people changed their behaviour in the early stages of the swine flu outbreak
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Few people changed their behaviour in the early stages of the swine flu outbreak, finds a study published on bmj.com today. But the results do support efforts to inform the public about specific actions that can reduce the ...
Study of Whitehall civil servants explains how stress at work is linked to heart disease
Jan 23, 2008 |
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New research has produced strong evidence of how work stress is linked to the biological mechanisms involved in the onset of heart disease.
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