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Friday, 27 May 2011
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Waco, TX, USA. Male rappers see the "independent woman" as an educated, bill-paying person who will care for an average guy without making demands, while female rappers stress their sexual prowess and keep mum about their domestic skills, according to a Baylor University researcher's study.
But despite their very different takes on independent women, both men and women artists displayed a definite lack of the R-E-S-P-E-C-T that Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin craved in her 1967 mega-hit song.
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 TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 25 May 2011 Vancouver, BC, Canada. Females rate happy guys as significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding males, according to a new study that helps to explain the enduring allure of the bad boy types and other iconic gender types.
The study finds dramatic gender differences in how men and women rank the sexual attractiveness of non-verbal expressions of commonly displayed emotions, including happiness, pride, and shame.
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 24 May 2011 Coral Gables, FL, USA. Modern-day game theory techniques have been used to reexamine two legendary military bluffs and explain why they worked, with findings of interest to everyday situations that have the potential for interpersonal conflict.
The study shows that bluffing works because an opponent comes to believe you are strong, but can't tell whether your strength or true or only an act.
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TS-Si News Service Thursday, 19 May 2011 Lausanne, Switzerland. Scientists used robots to simulate genetic evolution over hundreds of generations, providong quantitative proof of kin selection.
One of the most enduring puzzles in biology has been why most social animals, including humans, go out of their way to help each other? Altruism, sacrificing of individual gains for the greater good, appears to go against survival of the fittest. However, altruistic gene expression is found in nature and is passed on from one generation to the
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TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 18 May 2011 Tampa, FL, USA. Psychologists have tested the assumption that delaying sex reduces sexual risk-taking and bad consequences, finding that in the end it doesn’t really matter whether you delay sex or not.
Sex education has one common message whether it focuses exclusively on abstinence or provides instruction on contraception and other topics: wait. The problem has been that no one had tested this assumption.
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TS-Si News Service Sunday, 15 May 2011 West Lafayette, IN, USA. Ostracism or exclusion may not leave external scars, but it can cause pain that often is deeper and lasts longer than a physical injury.
According to a study from Purdue University, when a person is ostracized, the brain's dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, which registers physical pain, also feels this social injury.
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TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 04 May 2011 Leipzig, Germany. The ability to discriminate spontaneous from planned (rehearsed) behavior has been traced to the amygdala in the brain and a network of areas known to be involved in the mental simulation of behavior.
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 03 May 2011 Tampa, FL, USA. Manhood is a “precarious” status — difficult to earn and easy to lose. And when it’s threatened, men see aggression as a good way to hold onto it.
“Gender is social,” says Jennifer Bosson. “Men know this. They are power... |
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 26 April 2011 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Artists and engineers have come together to demonstrate that digital technology can get beyond practical purposes and pressed to a romantic purpose.
They created a digital Lovers Box that draws upon the aesthetics of traditi... |
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TS-Si News Service Thursday, 14 April 2011 Bonn, Germany. The expectations people have about how others will behave play a large role in determining whether people cooperate with each other or not. And that very first expectation, or impression, is hard to change.
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TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 13 April 2011 New York, NY, USA. Life at the bottom of the social hierarchy has measurable effects on brain chemistry, contributing to long-term social anxiety at the molecular level.
Researchers found that mice persistently bullied by dominant males grew unusual... |
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TS-Si News Service Saturday, 09 April 2011 Eugene, OR, USA. Although most reported domestic abuse is committed by men against women, a growing body of research has picked up on the prevalence and significance of domestic violence perpetrated against men.
Men who are abused by their female pa... |
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TS-Si News Service Thursday, 07 April 2011 Baltimore, MD, USA. People with bloodshot eyes are considered sadder, unhealthier and less attractive than people whose eye whites are untinted, a cue which is uniquely human.
Bloodshot eyes occur when the small blood vessels of the usually transpar... |
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TS-Si News Service Monday, 28 March 2011 Guelph, Ontario, Canada. A review of natural aphrodisiacs says there are some proven performance boosters out there — but you have to be selective.
Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sexuality and love, lends her name to the word aphrodisiac, a inges... |
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TS-Si News Service Saturday, 26 March 2011 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. If you don’t know how your friend feels about key relationship questions, your own relationship with that friend may exact a price.
How does your best friend feel when people act needy? Or, about people being dishone... |
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TS-Si News Service Thursday, 24 March 2011 University Park, PA, USA. For young people, aged 17 and older, having sex for the first time ever can improve or degrade self-image, depending on whether their sex is female or male.
A new study documents how on average, college-age males become mor... |
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TS-Si News Service Monday, 21 March 2011 Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Depression in fathers can negatively affect a young child's health and development. Compared to non-depressed counterparts, depressed fathers are nearly four times more likely to report spanking their child.
Depressed dads are al... |
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TS-Si News Service Friday, 11 March 2011 Detroit, MI, USA. New findings clarify the links between testosterone and human mating behavior, and how it is associated with dominance and competitive success when men battle for the attention of an attractive woman.
Theories have long proposed th... |
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