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The time when you admitted in public to using online dating websites to meet new people and felt ashamed for it is gone. A new study has shown that this is the second most popular method used today of finding Mr. or Mrs. Right. Whereas, before the Internet, people used to meet through friends and family or, at best, ... |
7 February 2012
13:21 GMT |
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A group of scientists from University of Portsmouth will try to teach the endangered Sulawesi crested macaques how to play with touch screens. The main goal is to convince the primates to use high-tech devices in order to express their choices, as a part of a study aiming to find new things about animal behavior. Th... |
7 December 2011
09:18 GMT |
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“Life in a Day” is the name of one of the most impressive projects ever carried out by YouTube. In collaboration with National Geographics, producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin MacDonald, Internet users compiled a 90-minute film about the things that happened on Earth on July 24th, 2010. The goal of ... |
1 November 2011
04:30 GMT |
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London has been affected by a number of riots for four days already and a number of other cities in the United Kingdom have also been affected and already some news outlets have pointed to video games as being one of the possible causes for the chaos created by gangs of youngsters bent on destruction.But Christopher ... |
11 August 2011
02:59 GMT |
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A group of investigators has determined that honeybees may be the first invertebrate creatures to display signs of pessimism. This emotion was until now believed to be limited to more complex animals, but that turns out not to be the case. Discovering this benchmark cognitive trait in insects is a major breakthroug... |
18 June 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Even if they do not listen to their parents, teens do have their boundaries, and experts have now discovered that they come from peers and friends. However, teens are very likely to overestimate the amount of freedom and independence other get, thus triggering a vicious circle. According to researchers, the tendency ... |
13 May 2011
10:31 GMT |
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A new research demonstrates for the first time that it is possible to detect when people suffering from bipolar disorder will have their next mood swing. If the method to figure this out is applied widely, then this discovery could lead to an improved quality of life for both the patients and their care givers.In the... |
19 April 2011
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A new study cited by The Economist comes to contradict all that we’ve learned at home and in school about how it matters who you are on the inside and how appearances don’t (or shouldn’t) count in all those important moments in life. As it turns out, they do. People who wear designer clothes with a ... |
4 April 2011
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With more men turning vegan for various reasons, meat lovers probably thought they were a dying “breed.” They needn’t worry: a new study shows that men who don’t eat meat are seen as less masculine by women. As the Daily Mail informs, this even includes women who have eliminated meat out of th... |
2 February 2011
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A new research carried out by the Department of Biology at Texas A&M University in College Station, concluded that being around the opposite sex activates certain genes in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), and cause them to adopt certain courtship behaviors.This is a huge step toward a better understanding of the ... |
13 January 2011
10:18 GMT |
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New Year’s Eve is usually the time of the year when we promise ourselves we’ll be better by setting goals and deadlines to achieve them by. A new poll reveals eight out of ten Brits don’t even bother about them, considering the practice obsolete. Whether it’s to kick a bad habit or lose weight... |
31 December 2010
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Everybody loves a good bargain – but no one loves them more than women. Love of bargains combined with love of shopping translates in the average woman in a total of 8 months wandering the shops for good deals in a lifetime, it has emerged. A new survey conducted on 4,000 British women reveals they spent a lot ... |
30 December 2010
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A new study has dubbed our generation the guilty-all-the-time generation (or the GAT) after confirming that as many as 96 percent of women feel guilty at least once a day, all the time. Most of the time, it’s not even for things they can be held accountable for.It’s a well known fact that, because they te... |
29 December 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Men and women get along just fine in everyday life but, usually, when it comes to shopping, most men would rather go alone, make their choice in under five minutes and get out.And since Christmas is just around the corner and there are many of you out there, who still haven't found the perfect gift, this new res... |
22 December 2010
05:49 GMT |
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The Texas A & M University has conducted a study that shows no link between violence in video games and in television shows and real world acts of violence or even rile breaking on the part of the children that experienced them. The study has been published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence and has been based ... |
22 December 2010
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It appears that little girls are not the only ones that play with dolls, since scientists at Harvard University and Bates College noticed that young female chimpanzees treat sticks like they were dolls and carry them around until they have offspring of their own.Another interesting thing is that this kind of behavior... |
21 December 2010
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A new Queen's University study found, for the first time, that there are differences in the way males and females of the same species of vertebrate see things, and that they use their sight to choose their mates.PhD candidate Shai Sabbah, a Vanier Scholar, and leader of the team, along with his colleagues, studi... |
14 December 2010
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For a while now, researchers have been arguing that marriage reduces aggressive and illegal behaviors in men, and now, a Michigan State University behavior geneticist, found that the reason for this was matrimony itself but also the fact that less 'antisocial' men are simply more likely to get married. S... |
7 December 2010
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Whoever believes that being shy is a sign of weakness and that only humans and pets had personality, should read about the latest discovery of University of Gothenburg (Sweden) scientists.They have discovered that brown trout also have individual characters and different personalities.Bart Adriaenssens and Jörge... |
6 December 2010
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Apparently, companies in Norway have a very severe toilet regime, with some bosses using the most ridiculous methods to keep a tab on employees’ time spent in the restroom, a new survey suggests. The Daily Mail reports a new survey was conducted with several major companies into the “tyrannical” toi... |
1 December 2010
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Waiting for a diagnosis can be one of the most stressful things in life, even more stressful that knowing you have a serious disease, concluded a study led by researchers from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.Elvira V. Lang, MD, associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, ... |
29 November 2010
05:57 GMT |
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The tests that are currently used for identifying and excluding aggressive dogs from breeding programs, have only one in three chances of success, animal researcher Joanne van der Borg from Wageningen University, concluded.She is convinced that additional test elements could help identify more dogs that have a tenden... |
26 November 2010
06:26 GMT |
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If children see that someone they intend to help has harmed or had the intention of harming another person, their helpfulness towards that person will be tempered.This is what two new studies on 3-year-olds, carried out by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, conc... |
16 November 2010
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We all imagine we know exactly how we want our (perfect) partner to be and, moreover, that we’ll know it’s them the moment we lay eyes on them. A new study shows things are far from that actually.A new survey conducted by a British dating website and cited by the Daily Mail, on no less than 3,000 bachelor... |
11 November 2010
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Male Australian desert goby fish are rather unusual and when it comes to courtship, and they always have a strategy.A team of researchers from Monash University, found out that their seduction tactics depends on how much choice they have and how often they have contact with females.Doctors Andreas Svensson, Topi Leht... |
11 November 2010
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Abusing texting and social networking might have something to do with poor physical health and mental problems in teenagers, suggested a new study presented at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting. 4,257 students in an urban Midwestern school district were surveyed by a group of researchers fr... |
10 November 2010
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Cavemen fought for their food and were rather aggressive when they were close to a hunk of meat, but apparently this behavior no longer exists, found a researcher at McGill University’s Department of Psychology.Frank Kachanoff is a researcher very interested in evolution, who was very surprised to see that the ... |
8 November 2010
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University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego (UC San Diego) are trying another approach to better understand the process of human behavior development.They are studying child-mother interactions to implement social skills in a robot that w... |
29 October 2010
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True love lasts forever, researchers were saying a while back. Now, a new study comes to prove that, in married life, love tends to go stale after precisely 10 years and 11 months. Though the study would seem to deny the existence of the so-called “7-year itch,” it also brings some bad news to those coupl... |
26 October 2010
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Parent-only treatments against childhood obesity work as well as those that include both parents and the child, concluded a new study led by a researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.The current approach in treating childhood obesity is to include both parents and the child in a plan ... |
22 October 2010
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A new study carried out by the Leiden University Medical Center, in Leiden, the Netherlands, concluded that kids suffering from permanent hearing impairment had a better life quality, and were generally developed better at ages 3 to 5 years, if they underwent hearing screening when newborns.The research was led by An... |
21 October 2010
03:43 GMT |
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A new study carried out by researchers at Tilburg University concluded that benign envy sells iPhones and malicious envy will influence consumers to choose a BlackBerry.It does not matter much whether the comparison is on phones or on something else, the idea behind the study is that people are willing to pay more fo... |
19 October 2010
05:55 GMT |
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A new research has focused on the way people spend money, when they buy things for themselves and when they do it for others, and also on the causes of this behavior.We live in a consumerist society so we all have a tendency of buying more things that we need, but the authors of the study wandered what made people sp... |
19 October 2010
05:11 GMT |
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The easiest way to find out whether you and your current partner are a match made in heaven is to listen to the way he or she speaks – if the speech pattern and the language match yours, you’re set.A new study authored by James Pennebaker and cited by the Daily Mail reveals that couples that are perfect m... |
5 October 2010
16:11 GMT |
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In a set of recent investigations, scientists determined that boys who act out inappropriately, who drink and consume drugs, and who are generally considered to be “bad” may in fact have brains that are literally malfunctioning. The research team says that each single brain is unique in the way it goes on... |
24 September 2010
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According to a new series of investigations, it would appear that changes in behavior take place faster through tightly-knit social networks, than they do through groups with many distant ties.This spreading patterns is a lot different from the one employed by news or infectious diseases, which prefer the latter vari... |
3 September 2010
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The addition of a psychological migraine treatment to an existing drug therapy, boosts patients' confidence in their ability to self-manage the symptoms.This association of psychological therapy and drug treatment is very beneficial for severe migraine sufferers, according to a new research carried out by Elizab... |
2 September 2010
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A new Dutch study concluded that an angry boss can sometimes stimulate employees into being more creative, as some people have better performances once they receive an angry feedback or assignment.Nevertheless, directed at the wrong person, the anger will be taken as an aggression and the person's creativity cou... |
1 September 2010
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This might not be news for people that are used to dogs or even have one as a pet, but the world is large and surely there must be some people that are a bit scared at the thought that if they meet a dog, it will probably attack them.Now, what everyone should know is that dogs never attack without a reason, and if y... |
31 August 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Payday proximity changes the way we perceive prices, the way we respond to messages, our motives and our purchase behavior, a new study carried out by University of Utah marketing professors Himanshu and Arul Mishra, reports.You would not think but it is not the actual price of things or the size of the bank account ... |
30 August 2010
04:10 GMT |
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In a recent investigation, researchers in the United States determined that people tend to perceive themselves as being more morally cleansed after actually cleaning themselves physically, through baths or showers. The finding also implies that, under these circumstances, individuals tend to judge other people and th... |
28 August 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Laughter plays a key role in group communication and dynamics, even when there is absolutely nothing funny happening, a new study carried out by North Carolina State University claims.The subjects of this study were members of the jury in a capital murder case, and the researchers wanted to know exactly what role pla... |
24 August 2010
10:36 GMT |
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A new study carried out by insect scientists Drs Melanie Norgate and Adrian Dyer, working with collaborators from Monash University and the CSIRO, found out that bees have warm drinks when cold and cooler drinks when too hot.Researchers found out that at a range of ambient temperatures going from 23 to 30°C, bees... |
18 August 2010
11:07 GMT |
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The roots of behavior may be deeply entrenched inside every person's genetic code, but researchers say that analyzing the human mind, and its relations to the gene pool, is a lot more difficult than it looks. Social sciences experts have some time ago began collaborating with geneticists on a series of studies m... |
16 August 2010
06:06 GMT |
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First-borns are generally smarter and younger siblings are more outgoing and get better grades, as birth order seems to have an impact on children's personality and intelligence, a new study suggests.Many previous studies treated the matter of children's personalities depending on birth order but apparently... |
13 August 2010
04:40 GMT |
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They’re too emotional, moody and often forget to leave their personal life at the door of the office: female bosses are a nightmare to work for and two thirds of women also believe it. Studies of this type have been done before – and with the same results. Both men and women would rather they worked under... |
12 August 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Cinematography is an art. As a form of art, it serves for escapism – that is to say, something to help the viewer evade the reality of everyday life, into an alternate, possible, but not real… reality. However, as it happens, when we leave the cinema, we can’t check our feelings at the door and be ... |
22 July 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Just recently, a survey showed that one in three men still had serious issues when his partner (wife or girlfriend) was behind the wheel because he felt she lacked concentration and was too easily distracted to be a good driver. At the workplace, though, the story is different, since women tend to be much more organi... |
21 July 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Smiling is just one of those little things that are extremely beneficial for us and that, oftentimes, we seem to forget to do. Not the British, though, as they are officially the happiest nation in all of Europe, with the Polish coming in last, as a new study cited by the Daily Mail reveals. Whether they have good re... |
21 July 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Though they say – and it’s been verified many a time – that the key to a healthy, successful relationship is honesty and communication, a new survey cited by the Daily Mail shows that women still try to dodge questions about their former lovers. The reason for doing so is that they feel embarrassed ... |
19 July 2010
14:31 GMT |
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