By overestimating how much women want them, men may increase their chances of scoring
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Nicotine Gum and Skin Patch Face New Doubt
Nicotine replacements have no lasting benefit in helping smokers quit and may backfire, according to the most rigorous long-term study to date.
Fighting once a week? It`s good for marriage
Headphones linked to pedestrian deaths, injuries
Ritalin Gone Wrong
Ritalin Gone Wrong
By L. ALAN SROUFE
Published: January 28, 2012
Millions of children take drugs to help them pay attention — but do they really help?
When Truisms Are True
By SUNTAE KIM, EVAN POLMAN and JEFFREY SANCHEZ-BURKS
Published: February 25, 2012
Our research has shown that people are indeed more creative when physically thinking “outside the box.”
Want to limit aggression? Practice self-control
Feeling angry and annoyed with others is a daily part of life, but most people don’t act on these impulses. What keeps us from punching line-cutters or murdering conniving co-workers? Self-control.
Scientists tap the cognitive genius of tots to make computers smarter
Well: How Perception Can Boost Sports Performance – NYTimes
Well: How Perception Can Boost Sports Performance
By By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Published: March 28, 2012
Manipulate equipment or expectations so that a task looks easy and, the work of one psychologist suggests, it will be.
Neuroscientists Battle Furiously Over Jennifer Aniston
A few years ago, a UCLA neurosurgeon named Itzhak Fried, while operating on patients who suffer from debilitating epileptic seizures, discovered what he now calls the “Jennifer Aniston Neuron.”
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