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Study Shows Couples’ Genes Could Affect Marital Bliss
NBC: A couple’s chances for marital bliss may go beyond their ability to have and to hold. A new study released this week by scientists from Chicago’s Northwestern University and the University of California, Berkeley shows
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Shutdown Science: Furloughed Workers Feel the Burden of Boredom
LiveScience: Jennifer Wade is bored. A program director for the National Science Foundation, Wade normally spends her workdays managing grant proposals and wrangling the reviewers who will decide what research gets federal funding. But with
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Genes May Predispose Some People to Focus on the Negative
New research finds that a previously known gene variant may predispose individuals to perceive emotional events — especially negative ones — more vividly than others. The new findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the
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Study Identifies Genetic Tie to Marital Satisfaction
Psychological researchers have found, for the first time, a link between a gene variant and marital satisfaction. “An enduring mystery is, what makes one spouse so attuned to the emotional climate in a marriage, and
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The Mind of a Furloughed Worker
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain on furlough from their jobs, hoping the congressional budget standoff will end in time for them to pay their rents and mortgage installments. It’s a situation that is
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The Two Faces of Shame
The Huffington Post: Twenty-four-year-old Shawn Gementera was caught red-handed pilfering letters from private mailboxes along San Francisco’s Fulton Street. Mail theft is a serious crime, and it was not Gementera’s first run-in with the law.
