A new study has revealed that self-control -- or the lack thereof -- is contagious.
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January 14, 2010
January 8, 2010
Volunteering may prevent the elderly from becoming frail
A study suggests that participating in volunteer activities may prevent frailty in older adults.
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December 18, 2009
Gender divide in children’s use of cell phone features, study finds
A recent sociological study finds that the way the kids will use their new phones depends on their gender.
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December 15, 2009
How categories and environment create satisfied and well-informed consumers
Expert consumers like to be surprised by unusual product formats, while novices crave familiarity, according to a new study.
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October 6, 2009
Blink outside the box
RadioLab has a brilliant short podcast on the psychological role of blinks, based on a study that found that when watching a film our blinks are remarkably synchronised.The programme dispels the myth that blinking serves only to keep our eyes wet as apparently studies have shown that we don't blink any more or less in different humidities.Instead, it explores a fascinating new study that found th
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September 25, 2009
Rough Day At Work? You Won’t Feel Like Exercising
Using your willpower for one task depletes you of the willpower to do an entirely different task, a new study shows.
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August 14, 2009
Intervention helps reduce homophobia
A problem with interventions that use role-playing to beat prejudice is that bigots usually aren't motivated to take the perspective of the groups that they discriminate against. In a new study, Gordon Hodson and colleagues have tested the effectiveness of an unusual alien-themed intervention for reducing homophobia that involves participants taking the perspective of a homosexual person, without
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August 13, 2009
Seeing what we want to see in our friends
The Boston Globe has an interesting piece on how bad we are at judging our friends' beliefs, opinions and values but why we tend to assume they match with our own.The article covers various examples of this effect, but it mentions a finding from a shortly to be published study finding that the most socially connected people are typically the least accurate at judging their friends' attitudes:A si
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August 10, 2009
Reactions to Sept. 11 Attacks: How Power Influences Interpretation
A newly completed study of public reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks concludes that people in positions of power, from government officials to managers working on Wall Street to military personnel, tended to interpret the events in more abstract terms and with more certainty and positivity than ordinary individuals.
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