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Public attitudes to nanotechnology: Lessons for regulators

Sep 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

New technologies may change our lives for the better, but sometimes they have risks. Communicating those benefits and risks to the public, and developing regulations to deal with them, can be difficult -- particularly if ...

Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Jun 26, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (12) | 5

Hot or not? Men agree on the answer. Women don't.

In 'reading' a gaze, what we believe changes what we see

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Jun 25, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

In primates including ourselves, the ability to register where others are looking is key in social circles. And, according to a new report published online on June 25th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, the wa ...

Easily grossed out? You're more likely a conservative

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Jun 03, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (23) | 24

(PhysOrg.com) -- Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch?

Innappropriate drug prescriptions wasting millions, raising health risks

Medicine & Health / Medications

Mar 04, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 1

A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit ...

Cleanliness can compromise moral judgment

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 01, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (16) | 5

New research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, showing that intuition, rather ...