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Salary Gender Gap May Be All in Your Head

Traditional-minded men outearn supporters of equal pay

Washington Post Washington Post Sep 22, 08 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not only is the gender gap in pay persistent, it affects men as well as women. Men with traditional views on a woman's place in the world earn, on average, $12,000 more per year than men who believe in egalitarian business practices, the Washington Post reports. Traditionally minded women make the least of all, according to a new study. More »

More about:  wages • gender roles • gender bias • psychological research • salary gap • gender in business

Cruel TV Makes for Crueler Viewers: Study

Meanness of Mean Girls as influential as killing in Kill Bill

USA Today USA Today Sep 16, 08 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Psychologists have long known about the link between on-screen violence and real-life aggression, but a new study suggests video cruelty has much the same effect, USA Today reports. Groups of subjects shown either footage from Mean Girls of the hands-off hostility known as "relational aggression" or a knife fight from Kill Bill were both more likely to turn vicious than a control group. More »

More about:  movie • psychology • television watching • psychological research • viewership • relational aggression

Children Can Count Without Numbers

Study suggests
that kids have innate
math abilities

Wired Wired Aug 19, 08 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A study sure to fan a fiery disagreement among developmental psychologists has found that children can count objects even if their language lacks words for the numbers involved. Researchers found that Australian Aboriginal children, who know words for only a few small numbers, did just as well as English-speaking children on counting tasks, Wired reports. More »

More about:  Australia • brain • psychology • language • mathematics • psychological research • Aborigines

Bronze Medalists Happier Than Silver Winners

2nd place a letdown, 3rd is a thrill

Washington Post Washington Post Aug 18, 08 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newly minted gold medalists are ecstatic, second-place finishers slightly less so, and bronze winners the least happy—or so conventional wisdom would have it. But psychologists find that bronze medalists are usually happier than those who finish with silver, the Washington Post reports. Why does this Olympic paradox play out so regularly? More »

More about:  psychology • gold medal • Olympic athletes • Olympics • happiness • psychological research

Single Men Close Health Gap With
Married Peers

Advantages shrinking, say researchers

HealthDay News Aug 13, 08 7:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Married people are still healthier, on average, than their unmarried peers, but longtime bachelors are closing the gap between them and their married counterparts, HealthDay reports. Researchers who examined 32 years of data found that the self-reported health of never-married men has increased markedly in that time. Women's health also improved, but the gap between married and never-married women remained essentially the same. More »

More about:  health • marriage • psychological research • spouse • married couples • bachelors

Traumatized? Keep It to Yourself

Talking things out after crises not always beneficial: study

CBC (Canada) CBC (Canada) Jun 2, 08 6:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Contrary to popular belief, talking about your emotions after a traumatizing large-scale event can be less helpful than keeping your feelings bottled up. A study of nearly 3,000 people who were exposed to but not directly affected by the 9/11 attacks reached the startling conclusion that people who didn't express emotions about the tragedy coped better than those who did, the CBC reports More »

More about:  September 11 • emotion • psychological research • trauma

Mental Exercises Boost
Brain Power, Study Says

Researchers in field of memory call it a breakthrough 

Scientific American Scientific American Apr 29, 08 8:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Psychological research has long supported the conclusion that training on cognitive tasks doesn’t result in intelligence gains that transfer to other tasks—ie, memorizing long strings of numbers doesn’t help learning long strings of letters. But researchers say they've made a long-sought breakthrough that could lead to better treatments for learning disorders and memory loss, Scientific American reports. More »

More about:  intelligence • memory • training • psychological research • intelligence tests

Humans Wired to Fear Snakes

Scientists find innate ability to discern slithering critters in the wild

LiveScience LiveScience Mar 5, 08 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Evolution seems to have given humans a hard-wired ability to recognize snakes and spiders, LiveScience reports. Intrigued by the widespread fear of serpents despite the fact that most humans rarely interact with them, researchers showed groups of adults and 3-year-olds natural scenes containing various hidden animals. Both groups were consistently able to find snakes and spiders faster than other animals. More »

More about:  genes • human evolution • psychological research • natural selection • snakes • spiders • phobias

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