News tagged with ring finger


Explainer: What is the funny bone?

Put a finger on the point of your elbow. Feel inwards from there about half and inch or slightly more until you find another bony outcrop.

Other created Apr 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Verbal aggression: You may have picked it up in the womb, says new study

(Medical Xpress)—Research on the communication trait of verbal aggressiveness, which includes behavior like name calling, ridicule, insults, racial epithets and threats, has tended to focus on its social ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Prenatal exposure to testosterone leads to verbal aggressive behavior

A new study in the Journal of Communication links verbal aggression to prenatal testosterone exposure. The lead researcher, at University at Buffalo – The State University of New York, used the 2D:4D measure to predict verbal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Finger length clue to motor neuron disease

(Medical Xpress) -- People with the commonest form of motor neuron disease (MND) called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are more likely to have relatively long ring fingers, reveals research from the Institute of Psychiatry ...

Neuroscience created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0