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Marital infidelity linked to professional misconduct, study suggests
The finding was true for all four groups looked at in the study — police officers, financial advisers, white-collar criminals and corporate executives.
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More trees, not more grass, are associated with wellness and well-being, study suggests
“Our findings suggest that urban greening strategies with a remit for supporting community mental health should prioritize the protection and restoration of urban tree canopy,” the researchers concluded.
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Music is an effective alternative to sedatives for reducing anxiety before surgery, study finds
“Music lights up the emotional area of the brain, the reward system and the pleasure pathways,” said Dr. Veena Graff, the study’s lead author.
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Science deniers can be effectively rebutted, study finds
The study and its findings are robust enough to offer a somewhat hopeful path forward for people who are trying to counter the damaging fallout of science denialism.
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Humans fear spiders and snakes the most, but find parasites the most disgusting
Spiders evoked the strongest response from the study’s participants, racking up a total of 4.39 points out of 5 for fear and 4.47 points for disgust.
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‘Lost’ wallet study finds majority of people are honest
The United States’ return rate — 57 percent — was closer to the high end than the low end of the countries on the list, but Americans were still less honest than the residents of most European countries, as well as people living in Canada and Australia.
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Weighing yourself daily may help avert ‘weight creep’ during holiday season, study suggests
Much of the weight that American adults gain during the winter holidays — an average of 1 to 3 pounds, according to studies — tends to persist afterward, particularly among the people who are overweight.
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Many people’s earliest ‘memories’ are fictional, study finds
What many people are really recalling is “an episodic-memory-like mental representation consisting of remembered fragments of early experience and some facts or knowledge about their own infancy/childhood,” write the authors of the study.
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Global health officials recognize job burnout as a serious ‘syndrome’
The new ICD-11 will describe burnout with more specificity — as a “syndrome … resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”
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In real life, Marvel’s superheroes would have a weight problem
Yes, they’re comic book characters. But their exaggerated physical features say a lot about what we as a society find attractive.
