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 What Your BLT Says About You 

Sandwich choices offer insight into personality, love connections

Jul 23, 09 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Online dating sites and jury-selection pools may have a new criterion for determining personality traits: sandwich choice. A new study breaks down the deli line, finding, among other things, that BLT lovers are devoted perfectionists who are best matched with loyal, unselfish seafood-salad lovers, the Chicago Tribune reports. More culinary... More »

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study • research • personality • sandwich • personality test • Jay-ZTV

Girls Bond,
Boys Compete:
Brain Study

Scans confirm gender split on one-on-one interaction

Jul 17, 09 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ever wonder why girls are so fixated on swapping friendship bracelets? They may just be wired that way, according to a new study. Using MRIs to look inside tweens' and teens' brains, researchers found that one-on-one interactions got girls’ synapses firing, Time reports. Boys focused less on other individuals than... More »

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gender • study • psychology • neuroscience • girls • fMRI • teenager • tween • boys

 Fetuses Form Memories: Study 

At 30 weeks, have 10-minute memory

Jul 16, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fetuses can form memories, an important indicator of nervous-system maturation that may help doctors detect developmental problems, Dutch researchers say. Fetuses exposed to sound and vibration for 1 second every 30 seconds became accustomed to the stimuli, a process known as habituation. "Habituation is a form of learning,"... More »

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pregnancy • memory • parenting • study • research • fetus • prenatal care • Down Syndrome • pregnant women • babies

Coffee Can Make You Hallucinate, Study Says

Too much caffeine increases odds of seeing, hearing things

Jul 13, 09 1:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Caffeine junkies shouldn’t always trust their ears, according to a new study. Subjects who drank the equivalent of seven cups of coffee proved three times more likely to hear voices, and slightly more likely to experience other hallucinations, than those consuming less than a cup’s worth. Researchers theorize... More »

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medical breakthrough • coffee • study • caffeine • stimulant • hallucination

(Newser) - Regular doses of Omega 3, found in fish oil, can help reduce memory loss, reports the Telegraph. Healthy 70-year-old subjects taking capsules containing 900 mg of the fatty acid docosahexaenoic slashed errors on a test that measured learning and memory, according to researchers. The improvement, exhibited over a six-month period,... More »

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study • brain • memory loss • scientific study • omega 3 • fish oil

 Swearing Cuts Pain, Dammit 

Scientists suggest link to fight-or-flight response

Jul 12, 09 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stubbed your toe? Let loose a torrent of profanity and you may actually feel better, a study suggests. Scientists had subjects stick their hands in ice water for as long as they could, once while cursing and again using only G-rated language. The researchers discovered that cursing subjects could keep... More »

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study • language • swearing • pain • aggression

Celiac Disease Diagnoses Skyrocket

Many with gluten intolerance may not
know of condition

Jul 10, 09 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The number of Americans diagnosed with celiac disease has quadrupled since the 1950s, and the condition "is emerging as a substantial public health concern," Mayo Clinic researchers warn. People who had the gluten-intolerance disease and didn’t know it were four times more likely to have died during... More »

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nutrition • study • public health • gluten • wheat • Mayo Clinic • celiac disease • health research

The Power
of Negative Thinking

Better to acknowledge bad feelings than recite phony good ones

Jul 8, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Deliberate positive thinking—from Norman Vincent Peale to Stuart Smalley—has long been touted as a way to overcome feelings of worthlessness and self-doubt. But a new study suggests that repeating positive mantras may often backfire, making people with low self-esteem feel even worse about themselves. For many, it may... More »

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study • psychology • mind • self-help • psychotherapy • psychological research • positive thinking

(Newser) - As many as 26% of mortgage defaults are deliberate moves by homeowners who owe more than their house is worth, finds a new study that asked 1000 people if they knew anyone who had defaulted even though they could still make payments. Researchers caution that the study isn’t precise,... More »

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study • foreclosure • mortgage • mortgage defaults • Obama administration

 Social Security Numbers 
Guessable From Public Data

Available birth info can ease identity theft

Jul 7, 09 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Social Security numbers can be predicted, making them unfit to be “authentication devices” amid increasing worry over identity theft, researchers warn the Washington Post. Knowing a person’s birthday and birthplace can point the way to the first five digits, a study finds. “If they are predictable... More »

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(Newser) - If Marie Antoinette really said "Let them eat cake," she probably knew the French wouldn't bite. Along with the British and other Europeans, the French have developed genetic variants that make them more sensitive to sweetness in food, a new study says. Africans, on the other hand,... More »

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food • study • genes • sugar • genetic research • women's issues

Users Prefer Bing to Google But Won't Switch: Study

Focus group users prefer design, organization of Microsoft search engine

Jun 26, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, impresses users—but not enough to make them switch from Google, TechCrunch reports. Asked to rate Bing’s features, users in a study by the Catalyst Group thought Bing beat Google in almost every category, including visual design, organization, and filtering options. The exception... More »

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Google • Microsoft • study • design • search engine • focus group • Bing • Catalyst Group

Positive Thinking Can Make You Feel Worse: Study

Affirmations don't help low self-esteem

Jun 22, 09 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - It turns out the Little Engine That Could had it all wrong. Repeating positive statements to yourself doesn’t appear to help people with low self-esteem, according to a new study. Researchers asked students to repeat statements like “I am a lovable person” to themselves, then measured their mood.... More »

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study • psychology • experiments • self-help • positive thinking • self-improvement • Norman Vincent Peale

 Glaciers May Vanish 
 in 'Geologic Instant' 

Prehistoric glacier's rapid meltdown could happen again: researchers

Jun 22, 09 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - New data about a prehistoric Canadian glacier that rapidly vanished is giving scientists a stronger model to predict the radical effects of climate change. It's very possible that the same conditions could quickly shrink today's larger ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, prompting sea levels to soar in a "... More »

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climate change • global warming • study • Greenland • Antarctica • glacier • ice melt • Jakobshavn Glacier

(Newser) - Great white sharks lurk in the dark and follow young victims much like serial killers on the prowl, the AP reports. Far from being random attackers, the sharks pursue specific victims from 100 yards off—far enough to see but not be seen—hiding in areas they know well. "... More »

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(Newser) - Being a touch on the heavy side could help you live an extra few years, Japanese researchers say. People who were a little overweight at 40 lived 6 to 7 years longer than those who were very thin at that age, AFP reports. The very thin had a life expectancy... More »

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obesity • study • obesity epidemic • life expectancy • overweight • thin

One in 4 South African
Men Admit to Rape

Many repeat offenders; three quarters make
first attack as teens

Jun 18, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - One in four men in South Africa admitted to rape in an anonymous study, and many say they’ve attacked multiple times, the Guardian reports. Three-quarters of rapists first did so as teenagers and half are repeat offenders; 5% of the men surveyed said they’d raped a woman or... More »

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crime • study • rape • South Africa • sexual assault

 Men Hot for 
 Average  
 Women:  
 Study 

Sorry, hotties: scientists find males prefer typical to supermodel

Jun 11, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women need not be supermodels or Playboy bunnies to attract men’s attention. In fact, guys tend to find so-called average women the most attractive, scientists tell the Telegraph. They polled 100 male students on line drawings of women’s torsos with varying measurements, and found that the men preferred... More »

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Australia • women • men • study • sex • attraction • Playboy • average

If You Snooze, You Cruise: Scientists

Napping, dreaming boost problem-solving skills, say researchers

Jun 9, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Napping—particularly if it includes dreaming—may help people think more creatively, the Telegraph reports. Researchers gave young adults creative word-association tasks in the morning, then allowed some to sleep. The extra time and z's appeared to improve their scores on the same tasks; on new tasks, patients who had... More »

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sleep • study • research • health research • dreams • REM sleep

 Revolted? 
 You May Be 
 Conservative 

Studies suggest those on right have weaker stomachs

Jun 5, 09 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Those easily repulsed by a creepy bug or bloody scene may lean to the right, new studies suggest. People who are easily grossed out are particularly likely to take conservative stances on homosexuality, LiveScience reports. Surveys using scales for “Disgust Sensitivity” and political ideology helped researchers draw the conclusions;... More »

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study • science • research • Cornell University • conservatism

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