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The developing child: Rating aggressive and delinquent behavior in pre-adolescence

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Don't be happy, be worried: Sports fans need dose of negative

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

For sports fans watching their favorite team play, the greatest enjoyment comes only with a strong dollop of fear and maybe even near-despair, a new study suggests.


Research shows avatars can negatively affect users

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although often seen as an inconsequential feature of digital technologies, one's self-representation, or avatar, in a virtual environment can affect the user's thoughts, according to research by a University ...


Diet switching can activate brain's stress system, lead to 'withdrawal' symptoms

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In research that sheds light on the perils of yo-yo dieting and repeated bouts of sugar-bingeing, researchers from The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that cycling between periods of eating sweet and ...


Think twice before you boo your competitor

Think twice before you boo your competitor

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Next time you watch a heavy weight lifting tournament, tell the person next to you not to boo the person that he doesn't want to win.


Professor: Fear, Shame Keep Homeowners From Defaulting

Professor: Fear, Shame Keep Homeowners From Defaulting

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brent T. White, a University of Arizona associate professor of law, said policymakers must consider ways that emotions drive financial decisions.


Yeast in a shell: Coating individual living yeast cells with silicon dioxide

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our breakfast egg is a peculiarity of nature: a single cell protected by a thin mineral layer. Apart from a number of tiny radiolaria and diatoms, individual cells normally do not have a hard shell. Korean ...


Married with children the key to happiness?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Having children improves married peoples' life satisfaction and the more they have, the happier they are. For unmarried individuals, raising children has little or no positive effect on their happiness. These findings by ...


Nepotism has its benefits when it comes to survival

Nepotism has its benefits when it comes to survival

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

While nepotism may have negative connotations in politics and the workplace, being surrounded by your relatives does lead to better group dynamics and more cooperation in some animals. That certainly seems ...


Penn study: Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale ...


Even low alcohol consumption has a negative impact on overall health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Low alcohol consumption is bad for your health in general. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation studied the relationship between alcohol consumption and he ...


Stereotypes can fuel teen misbehavior

Stereotypes can fuel teen misbehavior

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Drinking. Drugs. Caving into peer pressure. When parents expect their teenagers to conform to negative stereotypes, those teens are in fact more likely to do so, according to new research by Christy Buchanan, ...


Power at work has payoffs, but not for health

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Being at the top has its perks, but new University of Toronto research shows people in positions of authority at work are more likely to experience certain psychological and physical problems that can undermine the health ...


Protein interaction network can respond Helicobacter pylori infection?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) is a gram negative bacterium which infects about 50% of the world population. H pylori colonization causes a strong systemic immune response. Various tools have been employed to identify the rela ...


Action video game players experience diminished proactive attention

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Video game players are often accused of passively reacting to tasks that are spoon fed to them through graphics and stimuli on the screen. A group of researchers from Iowa State University shows that playing lots of video ...