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Avoir un animal de compagnie n’est pas si bon qu’on le pense pour la santé
MSN France: Howard Herzog, professeur de psychologie à l’université Western Carolina (Caroline du Nord, sud-est), affirme dans cette étude publiée dans le numéro d’août de Tendances en Psychologie (Current Directions in Psychological Science), que toutes
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Getting to The Heart of The Appeal of Videogames
San Francisco Chronicle: People spend 3 billion hours a week playing videogames but little is known scientifically about why they are actually fun in the first place. The vast majority of research into videogames has
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Will Pets Give You Good Health and Longevity?
Yahoo Taiwan: (法新社華盛頓3日電) 長期以來,寵物飼主被洗腦認為,比起沒養寵物者,自己更快樂、健康又長壽,但美國最新研究指出,這些飼主可能只是「自我感覺良好」。 西卡羅來納大學(Western Carolina University)心理學教授赫佐格 (Howard Herzog)表示,過去針對飼養寵物能否促進健康和長壽的研究,卻發現「夾雜衝突性結果」。 赫佐格在8月號「心理科學最新指南」(Current Directions in Psychological Science)中指出:「無庸置疑,飼養寵物對部分民眾有益,但『養寵物的人比沒養寵物者還健康、快樂或更長壽』的論述,缺乏充足佐證。」 阅读更多/Read more: Yahoo Taiwan
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Under Pressure, Soccer Goalies Tend To Dive Right
NPR: The Japanese women’s soccer team stunned the United States a few weeks ago. After a tense match in which Team America seemed to have the upper hand throughout, Japan leveled the game with a
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Why mirroring an interviewer’s body language and mannerisms can make you seem incompetent
Daily Mail: It might be considered the sincerest form of flattery, but if you take imitation too far in a job interview you could be giving the wrong impression to a potential employer. While subtle
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What Makes You Happy? It May Depend on Your Age
LiveScience: People’s happiness levels change with age, an idea reflected in personal experiences and public opinion polls, but a new study shows that much of that change may boil down to how people define happiness