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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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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.
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Hidup Terlalu Ceria Bisa Mati Muda
Media Indonesia: Para ilmuwan mengklaim, setelah menemukan bahwa orang yang terlalu bahagia mati lebih muda daripada mereka yang lebih pesimistis. Berdasarkan Telegraph, para peneliti menemukan bahwa anak-anak yang dinilai sangat ceria di sekolah akan mati muda daripada teman sekelas mereka yang kebalikannya. Diyakini, itu semua karena anak yang ceria cenderung hidup lebih riang yang penuh bahaya dan pilihan gaya hidup tidak sehat. Baca/Read more: Media Indonesia
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Happiness
The Economist: GDP is a useful measure. After all, nations with high GDP per head have more education, better health and longevity, and higher life satisfaction. I would never argue that we should replace GDP with measures of "Subjective Well-Being" (SWB)—"happiness" in common parlance. Instead, I believe that the case is now strong for adding SWB to other social indicators. Everyone recognises that GDP does not give complete information in itself. Nations spend billions tracking educational success, crime rates, diseases and longevity, and many other indicators.