A recent study finds that how older adults perceive their socioeconomic status influences how old they feel and their attitudes toward aging. Specifically, the lower people deem their relative socioeconomic status, the worse ...
May 23, 2018
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Americans who admit to having extramarital sex most likely cheat with a close friend, according to research from the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Apr 4, 2018
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Race-based conflicts and prejudices are common. The persistence of such attitudes has led some to ask whether we are naturally inclined to like those who are like us and dislike those who are different. One way to investigate ...
Mar 21, 2018
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Year 3 reading outcomes of 2017 NAPLAN testing once again demonstrate a gender gap, with boys underachieving compared to girls. A focus on teaching for the test has not closed the gender gap and only reduced student motivation ...
Mar 8, 2018
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People express greater approval for political outcomes as soon as those outcomes transition from being anticipated to being actual, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association ...
Feb 26, 2018
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David Nutt, along with many other leading scientists, published a study a few years ago that showed how the overall harms associated with some legal drugs, such as alcohol and tobacco, dramatically exceed the harms of some ...
Feb 9, 2018
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People who believe Princess Diana was murdered or that John F. Kennedy's assassination was an elaborate plot are more likely to think that vaccines are unsafe, despite scientific evidence to the contrary, according to research ...
Feb 1, 2018
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For the first time, scientists have identified the brain pathway that links a positive attitude toward math to achievement in the subject.
Jan 24, 2018
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Sick of tinsel, carols and talk of virgin birth?
Dec 21, 2017
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The increasing use of antipsychotic drugs to manage dementia in care homes has been explained by some practitioners as "the lesser of two evils", despite clear risks for patients.
Nov 22, 2017
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