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Is making your bed unhealthy?
a the BBC: Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe. Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies. A Kingston University study discovered the bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions found in an unmade bed. Take that, mom. :) Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New…
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Are attractive people less likely to be convicted of a crime and more likely to get a shorter sentence?
ve posted before on whether criminals are ugly and if a babyface can get you a better result in front of a judge. Here's more proof that justice isn't all that blind: According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences - an average of 22 months longer in prison. (Source) Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.…
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Is there a connection between erectile dysfunction and death?
troduction. Erectile dysfunction (ED) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) share pathophysiological mechanisms and often co-occur. Yet it is not known whether ED provides an early warning for increased CVD or other causes of mortality. Aim. We sought to examine the association of ED with all-cause and cause-specific mortality. Methods. Prospective population-based study of 1,709 men (of 3,258 eligible) aged 40–70 years. ED was measured by self-report. Subjects were followed for a mean of 15 years. Hazard ratios (HR) were calculated using…
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Does where you live determine whether you’ll be a problem gambler or whether you’ll get physically abused?
ve posted before about where most people want to live, how to find a place to live where you'll be happy, and whether the importance of attractiveness depends on where you live. Does living near a casino make you more likely to have a gambling problem? Two studies investigated the relationship between casino proximity and gambling participation, expenditure, and pathology. In Study 1, 8,842 participants were categorized into 1 of 4 driving distances from their home to the nearest casino…
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Is an attractive person touching an item enough to make you want to buy it?
is research examines the impact of attractiveness on consumers during a consumption experience. Specifically, it examines the effects of an attractive social influence in the context of touching and contamination of store products by investigating how consumers respond when they see attractive others touching the same products they want to purchase. In doing so, it provides the first experimental evidence of a positive contagion effect in either the marketing or the psychology literature. Across three field experiments using an actual…
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Who looks for casual dates on the internet – shy people or sex-lovers?
search has dealt with the consequences of seeking casual partners online, but has been silent about its antecedents. To address this research gap, this study tested two hypotheses. The compensation hypothesis states that people high in dating anxiety and low in physical self-esteem seek casual dates online because the features of online communication (e.g. reduced cues, anonymity, controllability) allow them to compensate for the deficits experienced in offline dating. The recreation hypothesis proposes that sexually-permissive people and high sensation-seekers will…
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Can you tell if a man will get dementia just by looking at his face?
ymmetric faces are a sign of successful cognitive aging": It has been proposed that a common cause underlies individual differences in bodily and cognitive decline in old age. No good marker for this common cause has been identified to date. Here, fluctuating asymmetry (FA), an indicator of developmental stability that relates to intelligence differences in young adults, was measured from facial photographs of 216 surviving members of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 at age 83 and related to their intelligence…
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If obesity becomes the norm, will people get fatter “to keep up with the Joneses?”
human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are influenced by a person’s relative BMI, and longitudinal evidence from the German Socioeconomic Panel that well-being is influenced by relative BMI. Highly educated people see themselves as fatter − at any given actual weight − than…
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