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Teen Abstinence May Not Stop Later Risky Sex
HealthDay News: Teens who choose to practice abstinence or delay having sex may still engage in sexual risk-taking as adults, according to a new study. The researchers found that a combination of other factors, including genetics and environment, are stronger contributing factors than being sexually promiscuous in young adulthood -- which they described as associated with but not causing later sexual risk-taking. When it comes to causal factors for sexual risk-taking, "it doesn't really matter whether you delay sex or not," the researchers said in a news release from the Association for Psychological Science.
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Psst! The Human Brain Is Wired For Gossip
NPR: Hearing gossip about people can change the way you see them — literally. Negative gossip actually alters the way our visual system responds to a particular face, according to a study published online by the journal Science. The findings suggest that the human brain is wired to respond to gossip, researchers say. And it adds to the evidence that gossip helped early humans get ahead. "Gossip is helping you to predict who is friend and who is foe," says Lisa Feldman Barrett, distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University and an author of the study. Read More: NPR
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How You Think About Death May Affect How You Act
How you think about death affects how you behave in life. That's the conclusion of a new study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Researchers had people either think about death in the abstract or in a specific, personal way and found that people who thought specifically about their own death were more likely to demonstrate concern for society by donating blood. Laura E.R. Blackie, a Ph.D. student at the University of Essex, and her advisor, Philip J. Cozzolino, recruited 90 people in a British town center.
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Les liens forts entre enfants et grands-parents
Yahoo Quebec: Des chercheurs de l’Université Edith Cowan en Australie se sont penchés sur le lien précieux existant entre un enfant et ses grands-parents. On remarque en effet dans nos sociétés la place importante que ces derniers occupent dans la vie de l’enfant, et ce, malgré les différences générationnelles. On peut donc lire dans Current Directions in Psychological Science que l’évaluation a porté sur différents facteurs, notamment psychologiques, sociologiques et biologiques. Ce qui retient le plus notre attention concerne les causes anthropologiques de cette relation.
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US immigrants turn to junk food: study
The China Post: Immigrants to the United States often ditch their ethnic diets for high-calorie American fare, partly because it is cheap and easy to find but also as a way to fit in, a new study shows. Immigrants who eat American are consuming, on average, 182 extra calories and seven additional grams of saturated fat compared to immigrants who stick to their traditional diet, leaving the fast-food immigrants more likely to become obese and suffer chronic illnesses related to obesity.
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It’s not just guys, powerful women also more likely to cheat
MSNBC: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a love child (or, more accurately, a lust child) and the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is now sitting in a Rikers Island cell charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid and has admitted to at least one past affair. Both are more proof, as if we needed more proof, that men, especially powerful men, can’t keep their pants zipped. That makes a convenient narrative, but what if it’s not gender that leads to scandalous behavior, but power itself? What if powerful women were more likely to engage in illicit sex than their less powerful counterparts, just as powerful men are? Read the whole story: MSNBC
