12th of June 2013 07:42 GMT
Some say playing video games is a complete waste of time. As it turns out, this is not actually the case: all those hours that gamers spend with the video gaming console help them literally see the world differently than ordinary folks do. A team of Duke University researchers writing in the journal Attention, Perc...
10th of June 2013 16:41 GMT
Designated drivers are often not sober enough to get behind the wheel and safely drive their friends and family home, a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs says. Researchers explain that, although they refrain from drinking too much, about a fifth of designated drivers indulge in sufficient alc...
10th of June 2013 16:21 GMT
Both healthy people and those suffering with various psychological disorders can experience changes in their personality after being exposed to psychiatric treatments such as talk therapy and psychiatric medications. Presently, most psychologists and mental care specialists believe that, rather than being a means t...
5th of June 2013 15:11 GMT
In the case of zebra finches, core personality traits are largely determined by nurture and not nature, shows one study published in a recent issue of the journal Biology Letters. This suggests that, contrary to what some might assume, personality is not so much the result of genetics as it is the result of the env...
4th of June 2013 15:11 GMT
Recent reports have shown that, courtesy of the social networks that people have at their disposal, over 30% of marriages in the United States now begin online. A team of researchers wished to see whether or not there are any differences between the divorce rates reported amongst couples who have met online and cou...