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Studies Show Cat People Are Smarter Than Dog People
Time: Have you ever suspected that people who hang out with slinky, clever, moody cats are actually smarter than everyone with a goofy, friendly-to-everyone dog? Your hunch was likely correct, according to a new study carried
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Science Says There’s No Such Thing as ‘Comfort Food’. We All Beg to Differ
The Guardian: Most of us know this intuitively – that comfort and junk foods are subtly distinct. The former is an emotional as well as a nutritional unit, and the latter is merely a sugar
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Will Facebook Make You Sad? Depends How You Use It
Science Magazine: Using Facebook makes people sadder, at least according to some research. But just what is it about the social network that takes a hit on our mood? A study of the different ways
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Fears and Beliefs About Pain and Dentistry Predict Treatment-Seeking Behavior
Health behaviors are complex, and individual differences appear to be explained by variation in a host of psychosocial variables. With regard to oral health, treatment-seeking behavior and associated health outcomes are related to fear, anxiety
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Keeping Up With the Joneses
We examined the influence of friends’ and family members’ perfectionism on students’ life aspirations, as well as the role of life aspirations in students’ well-being and self-regulation across the year as they pursued three personal
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Dog People vs. Cat People: Who’s More Outgoing? More Intelligent?
LiveScience: “Dog people” and “cat people” really do have different personalities, according to a new study. People who said they were dog lovers in the study tended to be more lively — meaning they were
