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338 Available Episodes (338 Total)Average duration: 00:01:36
Feb 14, 2015
Up Your Online Dating Game with Evidence-Based Strategies
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Choosing a user name starting with a letter appearing earlier in the alphabet is just one scientifically vetted way to increase the odds of turning an online encounter into a first date. Christopher Intagliata reports
Feb 07, 2015
Junk Diet Rewires Rat Brains
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High-calorie and exceedingly pleasurable foods appear to change rat brain rewards circuitry, causing the rodents to continue to seek such fare. Erika Beras reports
Jan 31, 2015
High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing
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Parkinson’s patients derived more benefits from a salt solution they were told was an expensive drug than from the same solution when it was described as being cheap medication. Karen Hopkin reports
Dec 31, 2014
Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits
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Of studies presented at conferences, those that found a cognitive benefit to bilingualism were almost twice as likely to get published in journals as were studies finding no benefit. Karen Hopkin reports
Dec 20, 2014
Inclusion Illusion Lessens Racial Bias
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Implicit bias against another race lessened after volunteers experienced themselves via virtual reality as a member of that race. Karen Hopkin reports
Dec 16, 2014
Blood Test Forecasts Concussion Severity
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Levels of a protein fragment in the blood paralleled how long head injuries benched hockey players. Ingrid Wickelgren reports
Dec 08, 2014
Bouncy Gait Improves Mood
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If you're in an up mood, you may walk more energetically. But a study finds that purposefully walking more energetically may improve your mood. Christie Nicholson reports
Subjects who kept pace with a walking colleague estimated a potential enemy to be smaller and lighter than did other walkers who were not marching. Karen Hopkin reports
Nov 03, 2014
Big Parental Control May Stunt Kid Assertiveness
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Young adults who’d had highly controlling parents were less able to stress their own viewpoints to a friend or partner in confident and productive ways. Daisy Yuhas reports
Sep 29, 2014
Lots or Little Sleep Linked to Sick Days
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Absence from work due to illness increased dramatically for those who slept less than six hours or more than nine hours per night. Christie Nicholson reports
Feb 14 | 00:01:59
Up Your Online Dating Game with Evidence-Based Strategies
Feb 07 | 00:01:35
Junk Diet Rewires Rat Brains
Jan 31 | 00:01:28
High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing
Dec 31 | 00:01:26
Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits