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Experiment allows scientists to 'read' volunteers' thoughts
Scientists have read the minds of healthy volunteers using a brain scanner to detect what they were thinking. By placing the volunteers in the scanner after they had been shown three film clips, ...
4 hours ago from The Independent
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Why surprises temporarily blind us
Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your attention ...
10 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Game on? Video-game ownership may interfere with young boys' academic functioning
Parents of young boys may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids' video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
Wed 10 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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Confidence is key to gauging impressions we make
The gift of "seeing ourselves as others see us" is particularly beneficial when we judge how we've made a first impression -- in a job interview, during a sales pitch or on a first date.
Wed 10 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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Massage no better at beating stress than deep breathing and soft music
Having a massage is no better at beating stress than home relaxation techniques like breathing deeply and listening to soothing music, a study has found.
20 hours ago from Telegraph.co.uk
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Opposites do attract as 'stressed men make odd sexual decisions', study suggests
German researchers studying the psychology of sexual attraction found that stressed men made strange choices in sexual preferences.
Wed 10 Mar 10 from Telegraph.co.uk
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Big Brother News...
Good news! My brother Ben has been appointed the new language columnist ...
4 hours ago from Discover Magazine
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Male batterers consistently overestimate rates of violence toward partners
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous ...
Tue 9 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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Men with wider faces 'less trustworthy'
Men with wider faces are less trustworthy than others, according to new research.
20 hours ago from Telegraph.co.uk
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Stress Changes Who Men Find Attractive
When men are under stress, instead of preferring women who resemble themselves as they normally do, they choose dissimilar women, researchers now find.
Wed 10 Mar 10 from FOXNews
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