August 2012
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Study finds politeness has a dark side in awkward... →
You know that jerk at the party who keeps telling off-colour jokes? Or the co-worker whose political opinions are ugly as they are constantly shared? New research shows it’s not just because they delude themselves into thinking listeners are receptive but also because listeners, compelled to be polite, really do come across that way. In three studies using hundreds of participants, psychologists...
Why men are less likely to eat veggies →
Amy Neunsinger / Newscom stock A new study explores the reasons why men are less likely to eat fruits and vegetables than women. By MyHealthNewsDaily.com Men are much less likely to eat their veggies than women, and now researchers say they know part of the reason why. In a new study, men reported less favorable attitudes than women about the value of eating fruits and vegetables, and men also...
Most children get an allowance but don't save it,... →
The average allowance for kids in the U.S. is $15 a week, according to a recent survey by the American Institute of CPAs via CNNMoney. Shutterstock Enlarge photo» The average allowance for kids in the U.S. is $15 a week, according to a recent survey by the American Institute of CPAs via...
Can Sex Make You Smarter and Happier? A New Study... →
A new study by a University of Amsterdam researcher, Dr. Jens Forster, suggest that those who are sexually active and have lust on the mind actually perform better during critical thinking exercises. Dr. Forster’s experiment involved presenting a group of participants with critical thinking exercises. The results showed that those with lust on their minds performed the exercises better than those...
A new study shows why old people are so easy to... →
Old people become more gullible with age said a new study. Most people assume that old people are more trusting due to generational difference that often make them more vulnerable to scams. Not true say researchers at the University of Iowa who found that vulnerability to scams were likely due to deteriorating brain function. Researchers believe that they have found a region in the brain that...
Pro-Ana Sites Have Benefits, Says New Study →
To say that pro-ana blogs and websites — an online community for those with eating disorders — are controversial is an understatement. While some say they exist as a non-judgmental space for anorexics to seek support for their mental illness, others sites make the highly disturbing claim that anorexia is not an illness but rather a “lifestyle” choice. So how can a new study in the journal Health...
Study finds college students happier when binge... →
According to an article by Maia Szalavitz of Time on Aug. 20, the American Sociological Association recently released information. At a liberal arts college in 2009, a study was done to measure college students well-being and how it was linked to binge drinking. The comparison was done with scores from students who were lower in social status with students who were higher in social status. The...
Even toddlers can't stand whiners, study shows →
Toddlers seem to know the difference between a whiner and somebody who is justifiably upset, and the young children often show less sympathy for crybabies, a new study shows.
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TV therapy: Study finds watching reruns can be... →
New research finds that when the going gets tough, the tough reach for the remote, taking emotional solace in the familiar fictional worlds of beloved TV characters. What’s truly noteworthy, however, is that time spent with “friends” on The Big Bang Theory or NCIS may actually be more valuable than time spent with friends in real life — at least in terms of helping regain self-control. Across two...
Study finds car computers vulnerable to viruses,... →
As cars are becoming more computerized, they are also becoming more susceptible to viruses, a study released this month found. The report, from the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington’s Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (CAESS), argued that [M]odern automobiles are pervasively computerized, and hence potentially vulnerable to attack. The group...
Red Wine May Prevent Senior Falls, Study Finds →
Funny — we thought red wine would be more likely to make someone unsteady. But scientists say that resveratrol, the compound found in red wine, could help improve senior mobility and prevent falls, according to new research presented to the American Chemical Society on Sunday. In the study, researchers fed young and old lab mice a resveratrol-rich diet for eight weeks. During that period,...
Dental health linked to dementia risk →
By Natasja Sheriff NEW YORK | Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:08pm EDT (Reuters Health) - People who keep their teeth and gums healthy with regular brushing may have a lower risk of developing dementia later in life, according to a new study. Researchers who followed close to 5,500 elderly people over an 18-year period, found those who reported brushing their...
Decline in circumcisions costing health care... →
August 20, 2012|By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun A 20-year decline in male circumcision has cost the country $2 billion in medical costs that could have been prevented, Johns Hopkins researchers say in a study released Monday. In what is believed to be the first look at the economic impact of male circumcision on the health care system, the Hopkins scientists say that boys who are not...
Summer Work Clothes Often Deemed Too Revealing,... →
Attention office workers: You may want to leave your sheer tank tops at home. Digital media company Captivate Network polled 692 U.S. office professionals in July to gauge shifts both in what people are wearing to work and in what their coworkers think about it. Nearly one in two office workers said they noticed cleavage at work this summer, and many reported tight clothes and see-through...
Study finds less religious states give less to... →
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A new study on the generosity of Americans suggests that states with the least religious residents are also the stingiest about giving money to charity.The study released Monday by the Chronicle of Philanthropy found that residents in states where religious participation is higher than the rest of the nation, particularly in the South, gave the greatest percentage of their discretionary...
Study finds singing while driving hard on the... →
Who doesn’t like to belt out a tune every once in a while when they’re behind the wheel? But a new Australian study finds singing while driving is not only distracting, it also drains your brain. Results show singing while driving was rated as more mentally demanding. It also caused slower and more variable speeds and slightly reduced hazard perception. Dr. Scott Bea did not take...
New study finds more kids are getting high at... →
CASAColumbia’s 2012 back-to-school teen survey reveals that 86 percent of American high school students say that some classmates are drugging, drinking and smoking during the school day and almost half know a student who sells drugs at their school. (image courtesy CASAColumbia) ...
Rough sea-slug sex may have benefits →
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Hermaphrodite (Siphopteron quadrispinosum) mate. The sea slugs’ penises are translucent.
The bizarre mating behavior of hermaphroditic sea slugs — which involves stabbing penile appendages and hook-like penis spines — may have hidden benefits despite its wear on the…
New study says full-frontal nudity on prime-time... →
LOS ANGELES – Think family-friendly viewing times mean family-friendly content? Maybe not. The Parents Television Council (PTC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating parents about television content, has released a new study looking at nudity on prime-time broadcast television which reveals a major increase over the 2011-2012 season. The study found that there were 76...
Antarctica started warming 600 years ago, study... →
Centuries before fossil fuel emissions began warming the globe, Antarctica was heating up, indicates a new research published in Nature. Temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula started rising naturally 600 years ago, long before man-made climate changes further increased them, scientists said in a study on Wednesday that helps explain the recent collapses of vast ice shelves. Skip to next...
Spending on technology equals more obesity, study... →
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The more countries spend on technology, the chubbier their citizens become, according to a new study that quantifies the rise in obesity.
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Cats That Beg For Food At Table May Have Mental... →
August 19, 2012 Updated Aug 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM PDT Cats who show impatience at feeding time or beg for food at their owner’s table could be suffering from mental illness, a study has found. ...
Study Finds Megachurch Movement Not Consumerist... →
(Newsroom America) — American megachurches use stagecraft, sensory pageantry, charismatic leadership and an upbeat, unchallenging vision of Christianity to provide their congregants with a powerful emotional religious experience, according to research from the University of Washington. Membership in megachurches is one of the leading ways American Christians worship these days, so,...
Babies 'Moral Compass' Called Into Question By New... →
Do babies have an innate moral compass? In recent years, scientists have presented evidence that tykes have an inborn sense of justice, but a new study calls these results into question. The new study addresses 2007 research from the Yale University Infant Cognition Center, which concluded that 6 to 10-month-old babies could determine good from bad within the confines of the experiment. In the...
A woman's dance moves may give clues to her... →
In a new meaning of fertility dance, a woman’s moves on the dance floor may reveal captivating clues about her current likelihood of getting pregnant. Women in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle are judged as more attractive dancers by men than are women in a less-fertile phase, a new study finds. The research suggests that ovulation is not as hidden in humans as scientists had once...
Teens Turn to Oral Sex Seeking Safe Alternative,... →
Two-thirds of U.S. teenagers and young adults ages 15 to 24 have had oral sex, according to U.S. researchers who say people in this group may mistakenly feel it’s less risky than vaginal intercourse. This is the first time researchers asked young people about the timing of oral sex relative to vaginal intercourse, according to today’s findings by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Fewer teen girls having oral sex, study shows →
By Maggie Fox, NBC News A new report on teen sex contradicts a popular notion that teens are turning to oral sex as a way to delay “real” intercourse. The government study shows fewer teenage girls are having oral sex, compared to a few years ago. The study, based on in-depth interviews with 6,300 young men and women aged 15 to 24, shows two-thirds in that age group have had oral sex, and just...
Study: Kids with toothaches more likely to have... →
(CBS News) Toothaches may lead to learning pains in the classroom, according to a new study from USC’s Ostrow School of Dentistry. Children in the Los Angeles School District who had tooth pain were four times more likely to have a grade point average below the median GPA of 2.8. Ex-Surgeon General: We have tended not to see oral health as a part of overall health 7 troublesome ways...
Study Shows Overconfidence May Help You Succeed →
August 15, 2012 Overconfident employees in the workplace might be unfairly deemed more competent than less outspoken employees, leading to potential advantages when it comes to advancement and promotion. This conclusion comes from a study, A Status-Enhancement Account of Overconfidence, coming out of the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and to be published in...
Study finds flu in healthy-looking pigs at state... →
Lisa Schnirring and Robert Roos Staff Writers
Aug 15, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – Testing of a sampling of pigs shown at the Minnesota State Fair during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic revealed that 19% of them were infected with flu viruses, even though they looked healthy, according to a new study.
The findings highlight the challenges of preventing pigs...
New Study Shows Correlation Between Internet Use... →
According to a recent study, depression is hard to diagnose because people lie about their symptoms, but a team of researchers devised a plan to get some answers without asking any questions. Tricky? Yes, but depression is serious and affects a lot of people. This is what they found. The data was collected from surveys distributed among 216 volunteers—all undergraduates. And yes, they recognize...
New study shows 'helicopter parenting' makes for... →
(Medical Xpress) — In a recently published study, researchers have shown that mothers who are overinvolved or overprotective during the early stages of a childs development often referred to as helicopter parents can increase the risk for anxiety later in life. Researchers from the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University followed a group of 200 children....
Women stare at breasts just as much as men do, new... →
It’s put men in the doghouse for years, but now a new study claims women stare just as much at women’s breasts as their male counterparts do. The study, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, looked at how people process images of men and women. More from GlobalPost: Sexting and man cave make the Merriam-Webster cut Not surprisingly, the women were far more...
Walnuts Improve Sperm Quality, Study Finds →
Men who want to improve the quality of their sperm should eat a couple of handfuls of tree nuts before sex, as an acid found in nuts apparently improves sperm quality, UCLA researchers are reporting. “Women are not the only ones who should be paying attention to what they eat when they are trying to get pregnant,” said Wendie Robbins, a UCLA nursing professor and lead author of the...
College binge drinkers report being happier than... →
The allure of the beer funnel for college students may have less to do with the need for a buzz and more to do with a desire for social status, new research finds. College students who binge drink report being happier with their social lives than their non-binging counterparts, according to a new study presented August 20 at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. And the...
NIMBioS study finds bullies squelched when... →
With new national anti-bullying ads urging parents to teach their kids to speak up if they witness bullying, one researcher has found that in humans’ evolutionary past at least, helping the victim of a bully hastened our species’ movement toward a more egalitarian society. Humans have evolved a genetically-controlled drive to help weaker individuals fight back against a bully. The...
New Study Shows Significant Atheist Military... →
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Children of US-born Latinas more likely to get eye... →
Posted: August 13th, 2012 | Author: Keith Matheny | Filed under: iSun | Tags: Hispanic, Latino, public health No Comments » //—> This one made me do a double-take: In a large epidemiologic study, researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center found that babies of U.S.-born Latinas are at higher risk for retinoblastoma — a malignant tumor of the retina which typically occurs before...
Depression can shrink your brain, new study... →
Popcorn's butter flavoring may trigger Alzheimer's... →
A new study finds that a flavorant used in microwave popcorn may trigger… If you’re a fan of butter-flavored microwave popcorn, a new study finds a flavoring used in the product may trigger Alzheimer’s disease. University of Minnesota drug-design expert Robert Vince, PhD, and colleagues found that diacetyl causes brain proteins to misfold into the Alzheimer’s-linked form called...
Japanese study finds 'optimum' aluminum bottle... →
The majority of Japanese consumers believe that the opening diameters of screw-top aluminium bottles are too small, a study has found, while also determining that 33mm is the optimum size for ‘drinking ease’.N.B. This photo is purely for illustrative purposes, and does not denote a bottle used in the study. Picture Copyright: Tom Marshall/Flickr Writing in the journal Applied...
Study finds house cats are the serial killers of... →
Published August 9th, 2012 7:26 am That mouse carcass Kitty presents you with is just the tip of a very bloody iceberg. When researchers attached kittycams to house cats, they found a secret world of slaughter. While only 30% of roaming house cats kill prey — two animals a week on average — they are still slaying more wildlife than previously believed,...
Elite athletes double illness risk after traveling... →
Athletes competing in the Men’s 5000m Round 1 Heats on Day 12 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 8, 2012 in London, England. (Credit: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) (CBS News) Athletes at the London Olympics have a hard enough time competing against the world’s best in their respective sports. A new study suggests some athletes who traveled five time zones or...
Study: Owners of aggressive dog breeds are more... →
(LiveScience) Your canine companion might be saying more about you than you realize, new research finds. Owners of stereotypically aggressive dog breeds such as Germen shepherds and Rottweilers are more likely to be hostile and aggressive themselves compared with owners of typically laid-back pooches such as Labrador retrievers, according to a new study. In this study, aggressive dog-breed...
Men more attracted to heavier women when stressed,... →
—> (CBS News) A new study finds that men prefer heavier women when under stress. This suggests that our body size preferences are not innate, but are flexible, said study co-author Martin Tovée, a neuroscientist at Newcastle University in the U.K., told TIME. For the study, which was published in PLoS ONE on August 8, researchers looked at 81 white males...
Some car shoppers are skipping the test-drive,... →
Call them digital test-drivers. Armed with online research, more than one in 10 new-car shoppers now buy vehicles without taking a test-drive, according to a new study. A marketing manager in Indianapolis, Andy Thedjoprasetyono, was one of them. He bought a new 2008 Honda Fit four years ago without taking a test-drive. Before setting foot in the showroom, he researched his purchase on...
Study finds clients want real love from sex... →
While it is commonly believed that men who pay for sex are attempting to avoid emotional commitment, a new study finds that men who become regular clients of sex workers often develop feelings of romance and love. This study is published in a recent edition of Men and Masculinities, a SAGE journal. “In recent years, we have come to see a gradual normalization of independent escort prostitution,...
Stressed men prefer heavier women, study finds →
Men who are stressed out prefer heavier women, a new study has revealed. Judgments of human attractiveness seem to change depending on environmental conditions that require different adaptive strategies, according to the report published in the journal PLoS ONE. British researchers showed stressed and non-stressed men pictures of female bodies, and found that the stressed group gave higher...
Outdoor cats are prolific killers, study finds →
Free-roaming house cats kill an estimated 4 billion wild animals across the U.S. every year, including birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.
Cat owners often wonder about their pets’ secret outdoor lives, but few are curious enough to actually follow them around the neighborhood. And thanks to a new study by the University of Georgia and...
More 20-somethings living with parents, new study... →
Three big swaths of Southern California, including Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach, rank among the top 10 metropolitan areas in the U.S. for the proportion of 20-something adults who lived with their parents for at least a period of time during the most recent recession, a new study shows. The Times will host a Google chat at 2 p.m. PDT to discuss the trend. Nearly 1 in 3 of the...
