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Creativity determines sexual success, research suggests
2006-01-23 16:34:03
The more creative a person is, the more sexual partners they are likely to have, according to a pioneering study which could explain the behaviour of notorious womanisers such as poets Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas.
The research, by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University in the UK, found that professional artists and poets have around twice as many sexual partners as those who do not indulge in these creative activities.More...
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People suffering generalised social phobia experience increased brain activity when confronted with threatening faces or frightening social situations, new research shows.
> The first laugh: New study posits evolutionary origins of two distinct types of laughter
In an important new study from the forthcoming Quarterly Review of Biology, biologists from Binghamton University explore the evolution of two distinct types of laughter – laughter which is stimulus-driven and laughter which is self-generated and strategic.
> Mildly depressed people more perceptive than others
Findings published in international journal Cognition and Emotion
> Gene controls whether fear is a factor
In a recent issue of Cell, researchers report the discovery of a gene that controls the ability to react with appropriate fear to impending danger. As a result, mice lacking the gene stathmin become daredevils of a sort, the researchers report. The basic findings may have general implications for the study of anxiety disorders and potential anti-anxiety drugs, according to researchers.
> Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism
New findings may help with social interaction
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Fascinating article in the New York Times on lying, deception and why exaggeration seems the same but is psychologically quite different.
UK government returns to pissing in the wind over drug classification. Prime Minister feels that having wet trousers will "send a message".
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Psychiatry News: May 08 2008 09:00 pm
"We are very grateful to the Samuels Foundation and matching funds from the Hebrew Home at Riverdale donor for their support of this program, which will help transform what is currently an ad hoc group into a formal entity" Main Category: Seniors / Aging Also Included In: Caregivers / Homecare Weil (More...)
Mind Hacks: May 08 2008 05:19 pm
The legal system works on a principal of innocent until proven guilty by the evidence presented in court, but Cognitive Daily covers several studies that shown our memory of the evidence is affected by moral judgements of the person in question.
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Mind Hacks: May 08 2008 04:15 pm
The link between attractiveness and facial symmetry seems to hold across both black and white faces, but also in non-human primates, according to a study just published in the open-access science journal PLoS One.
One of the most striking studies in sex and symmetry research isn't mentioned, howev (More...)
Mind Hacks: May 08 2008 02:39 pm
BBC Radio 4's legendary history of ideas programme In Our Time takes an in-depth and fascinating look at the history of the brain.
The programme tracks the earliest Western ideas on the function and purpose of the brain from the times of the ancient Greeks.
What's most fascinating is how some comp (More...)
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