November 17, 2010
Your view of personal goals can affect your relationships
How you think about your goals -- whether it's to improve yourself or to do better than others -- can affect whether you reach those goals. Different kinds of goals can also have distinct effects on your relationships with people around you, according to new research.
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September 15, 2010
Do children understand irony? New study reveals they do
New research findings reveals that children as young as four are able to understand and use irony. The study may impact the way parents communicate with their family.
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September 14, 2010
Children and adults see the world differently, research finds
Unlike adults, children are able to keep information from their senses separate and may therefore perceive the visual world differently, according to new research.
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September 2, 2010
Unrealistic goals and standards make teachers stressed, UK study finds
New research from the UK has found that teachers who want to be happier should not try to please everyone and should have a greater say in setting targets.
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August 11, 2010
Study finds similar personality types in male and female domestic violence perpetrators
New research is providing a better picture of the roles played by gender, personality and mental illness in domestic violence.
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Study finds similar personality types in male and female domestic violence perpetrators
New research is providing a better picture of the roles played by gender, personality and mental illness in domestic violence.
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August 5, 2010
Childhood personality traits predict adult behavior: We remain recognizably the same person, study suggests
Personality traits observed in childhood are a strong predictor of adult behavior, new research suggests.
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August 2, 2010
Women attracted to men in red, research shows
Wearing the color red or being bordered by the rosy hue makes a man more attractive and sexually desirable to women, a multicultural study finds. And women are apparently unaware of this arousing effect.
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July 26, 2010
Children with brain injuries have problems with story-telling, study suggests
Children with brain injuries have difficulty developing story-telling skills even though other language abilities, such as vocabulary, tend to catch up with other children as they mature, new research shows.
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July 7, 2010
What values motivate the non-religious in the UK?
Most research on religion is done in the US, a country which is something of an outlier among modernised nations because of the importance of religion in daily life. So, for example, the non-religious in the US tend to be 'disagreeable' (meaning that they are nonconformist and prefer to go their own way). But is this something general about the non-religious, or does it simply tell us something a
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