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US immigrants turn to junk food: study
The China Post: Immigrants to the United States often ditch their ethnic diets for high-calorie American fare, partly because it is cheap and easy to find but also as a way to fit in, a new study shows. Immigrants who eat American are consuming, on average, 182 extra calories and seven additional grams of saturated fat compared to immigrants who stick to their traditional diet, leaving the fast-food immigrants more likely to become obese and suffer chronic illnesses related to obesity.
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It’s not just guys, powerful women also more likely to cheat
MSNBC: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a love child (or, more accurately, a lust child) and the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is now sitting in a Rikers Island cell charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid and has admitted to at least one past affair. Both are more proof, as if we needed more proof, that men, especially powerful men, can’t keep their pants zipped. That makes a convenient narrative, but what if it’s not gender that leads to scandalous behavior, but power itself? What if powerful women were more likely to engage in illicit sex than their less powerful counterparts, just as powerful men are? Read the whole story: MSNBC
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Sex, Lies, Arrogance: What Makes Powerful Men Behave So Badly?
TIME: When her husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn was preparing to run for President of France five years ago, Anne Sinclair told a Paris newspaper that she was "rather proud" of his reputation as a ladies' man, a chaud lapin (hot rabbit) nicknamed the Great Seducer.
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Email her on your favorites, if you’re comfortable with that
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Comfort food: It might make you fat, but at least you'll be happy. Or so says the professional journal Psychological Science. Researchers conducted experiments to determine whether comfort food could make people feel less lonely. In one experiment, some participants wrote about a fight with someone close to them, while others completed an emotionally neutral writing assignment. Then, some people in each group wrote about eating comfort food, while others wrote about eating a new food. Lastly, everyone filled out a questionnaire to measure loneliness. Read the whole story: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Protected: Convention Video Blog Example
My name is Anna Mikulak from Georgetown University and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington D.C. Demographic Characteristics and Beliefs About Government Predict Vaccination Attitudes Understanding the factors that lead parents to refuse vaccination is critical for public health efforts to maintain community immunity. Data from a nationally representative sample suggest that attitudes toward vaccination may be influenced by beliefs about the appropriate role of government in society that cannot be explained by demographics alone. Poster Session III - Board: III- 108 Friday, May 27, 2011, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Columbia Hall Anna K.
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Is Fear Deficit a Harbinger of Future Psychopaths?
Psychopaths are charming, but they often get themselves and others in big trouble; their willingness to break social norms and lack of remorse means they are often at risk for crimes and other irresponsible behaviors. One hypothesis on how psychopathy works is that it has to do with a fear deficit. A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that children with a particular risk factor for psychopathy don't register fear as quickly as healthy children. The hypothesis that psychopaths don't feel or recognize fear dates back to the 1950s, says the study’s primary author Patrick D.
