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Sex Sells, But at What Price?
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Question submitted by Ward Danekas of Franklin Grove, Ill.The answer appears to be no. A bird will spend hours tossing a pebble in the air, but it's nearly impossible to discern if it's goofing around...
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According to New Study, fMRI Brain Scans May Predict Your Behavior Better...
Brain Scans Predict Your Behavior Activity in the medial prefrontal region helped UCLA researchers predict which study participants would increase their sunscreen use, even better than the...
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Optimism Is a Brain Defect, According to Functional MRI Scans
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Today in Good Reads: Inside the Mysterious Disorder of the Le Roy High School...
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Brain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex
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We Are All Born Scientists, Study Finds
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Science Confirms The Obvious: Teenagers Take More Risks Than Adults
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New Version of Classic Marshmallow Experiment Upends Original Conclusions
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Science Says Sex Addiction Is For Real. Here's How To Diagnose It.
Coupling Wikimedia Commons Tiger Woods, Charlie Sheen and other celebrities with an admitted proclivity for prurient behavior could soon serve as diagnostic case studies: New research shows that sex...
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Why Do Children Think Covering Their Eyes Makes Them Invisible?
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Meet Spaun, The Most Complex Simulated Brain Ever
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Eye Contact: Not As Persuasive As We Thought
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View ArticleOptimism Is a Brain Defect, According to Functional MRI Scans
Pervasive, persistent optimism is one of those uniquely human traits/flaws â we tend to believe things are better than they really are, or that negative consequences…
View ArticleToday in Good Reads: Inside the Mysterious Disorder of the Le Roy High School...
One of the more bizarre and sad television-news gawkeries in recent memory has centered on the uncontrollable tics of a group of high school girls in upstate New York. The…
View ArticleBrain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex
Brain scans can hear our thoughts, make us learn by osmosis and even predict our actions. …
View ArticleWe Are All Born Scientists, Study Finds
Young kids think and learn about their surroundings much the way that scientists think and learn in advanced experiments, a new study says. They form hypotheses, test them,…
View ArticleScience Confirms The Obvious: Teenagers Take More Risks Than Adults
Teenagers take more risks than younger children and adults, a fact that is borne out by statistics and just plain obviousness. But why? It's not because they all have an obsession with danger--they...
View ArticleNew Version of Classic Marshmallow Experiment Upends Original Conclusions
For four decades, a classic psychological experiment on kids has tested the strength of their wills: Will a toddler eat a marshmallow right now, or hold out for two? It's…
View ArticleScience Says Sex Addiction Is For Real. Here's How To Diagnose It.
Tiger Woods, Charlie Sheen and other celebrities with an admitted proclivity for prurient behavior could soon serve as diagnostic case studies: New research shows that sex…
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