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How your looks shape your personality
We tend to think of our looks as separate from who we are. But it turns out that physical traits like height or attractiveness may shape our personalities, behaviours, even politics.
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How people want to feel determines whether others can influence their emotions, Stanford psychologists find
New Stanford research on emotions shows that people’s motivations are a driving factor behind how much they allow others to influence their feelings, such as anger.
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Can Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?
Masha Gessen suggests there was a connection between Asperger’s and social activism in the Soviet era.
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Smoking cigarettes linked to negative personality changes
Summary: Using the Big Five model of personality traits, researchers found smokers were more likely to experience an increase in neuroticism over time.
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The Stress of Making the Right Choice
A recent study published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology looked at the potential distress caused by decision-making. What they found was making decisions only seems to be distressing when you’re overly concerned with making the right one. It’s a matter of the decision-making style that a person is predisposed to.
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Why Do We Point? Scientists Find It's Not Actually About Directing Attention
The "arrow hypothesis" doesn't hold up.
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Healthy lifestyle 'helps offset genetic risk of dementia'
Living a healthy lifestyle may help offset a person’s genetic risk of dementia, according to the first study of its kind which has led to more calls for over-50s to exercise more often. The University of Exeter-led research found that the risk of dementia was 32 per cent lower in people with a high genetic risk if they had followed a healthy lifestyle, compared to those who had an unhealthy lifestyle.
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Surveillance Cameras Show Good Samaritans Prevail Over Bystander Effect
A new study uses camera footage to track the frequency of bystander intervention in heated incidents in Amsterdam, Cape Town, and Lancaster, England.
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Humans aren’t designed to be happy
Summary: Researchers argue humans did not evolve to be consistently happy but primarily survive and reproduce.
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Are We Intuitively Honest or Dishonest?
People may be intuitively dishonest, but only if it does not harm others.
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Want To Feel Happier Today? Try Talking To A Stranger
Happiness, says one researcher, is the sum of many positive moments throughout the day. Something as simple as a friendly chat in the elevator can boost your mood. So put down your phone and try it.
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Neural sleep patterns emerged at least 450 million years ago
Researchers have found that brain patterns in sleeping zebrafish are similar to those of land vertebrates, suggesting that such sleep signatures developed before aquatic and land animals diverged.
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Men Who Send Unsolicited Dick Pics Are Bigger Narcissists, Study Finds
An academic study found that men really don’t get why women might not want to see their penis.
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The Death of a Prominent Scientist Can Actually Help Their Field - D-brief
When a famous scientist dies, it makes room for new ideas and a new generation of innovators.
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'Time outs' don't do any harm, parents told
Using "time outs" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests. Despite criticism of the "naughty step" strategy, children's anxiety did not increase and neither did their aggressive behaviour, the eight-year study of families found. But a UK psychologist said the key was how the technique was used.
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Children with Autism More Able to Read Thoughts and Feelings Than Previously Thought | Psychreg
The ability of people with autism to read what someone is feeling or thinking by looking at their eyes and face may have been underestimated, according to research conducted by a developmental psychology expert from Kingston University.
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Why Anger Matters and What to Do About It
Anger gets a bad rap in the therapy – and spirituality – community. It’s labeled a “negative” emotion, and for good reason. When anger runs us and we react to it, it can blow like a volcano and make quite a mess of our relationships.
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Novel Study Identifies Three Distinct Types of Teen Popularity
Adolescents place a lot of emphasis on popularity and they are keenly aware of the difference between being liked and being popular. If forced to choose, many opt for popularity. Popularity, however, has many faces. In prior research, two groups of popular adolescents stand out: those who are aggressive and those who are prosocial. Prosocial popular teens acquire and maintain popularity through cooperation. Aggressive popular teens acquire and maintain popularity through coercion and aggressive behavior.
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What a New Theory of Attention Says About Consciousness
Filtering out distractions might be more important for the brain than highlighting important information.
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No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that testosterone administration did not affect cognitive empathy, a measure of the ability to recognize another’s feelings and motivations. The finding calls into question the theory that the symptoms of autism are caused by a hyper-masculinized brain.
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