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Friday, 24 June 2011
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Northfield, MN, USA. For partners in a relationship, how well their individual levels of commitment match make the most difference in how well they resolve conflicts, and ultimately how long they stay together.
Two strong links are benevolent and tolerant when the going gets rough. Two weak links may be lax about working things out, but expectations are equally low — so there's less friction. But if a weak and strong link pair up, the one with less investment has more influence — and stability is the loser.
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 TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 22 June 2011 Canterbury, Kent, UK. Conspiracy theories are more likely to be believed by those people who themselves are willing to conspire.
This finding aligns with a well-known psychological process called projection — the perception by some individuals that I would do it informs her or his perception that they did it, projecting their own moral tendencies onto the supposed conspirators.
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 17 June 2011 Gainesville, FL, USA. Never before been documented in mammals, neotropical singing mice woo their mates with high-pitched vocal trills, and females show a preference for more difficult songs.
Like rock stars of the rodent world, the males showin the greatest prowess could give female mice clues to a potential mate’s physical quality.
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 Christine Vestal (Stateline) Friday, 17 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. State, national, and local policymakers should elevate science education in grades K-12 to the same level of importance as reading and mathematics, says the National Research Council, recommending ways to improve K-12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The report grew from a request by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify highly successful K-12 schools and programs in STEM fields.
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TS-Si News Service Monday, 13 June 2011 Minneapolis, MN, USA. High-quality early education has a strong, positive impact well into adulthood, according to the longest follow-up study ever of an established large-scale early childhood program.
Those who began perticipation in an early childhood program at age 3 showed higher levels of educational attainment, socioeconomic status, job skills, and health insurance coverage as well as lower rates of substance abuse, felony arrest, and incarceration than those who received the usual early
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Christine Vestal (Stateline) Saturday, 11 June 2011 Sacramento, CA, USA. One of the nation's most successful state health care programs stands to lose the bulk of its funding. The move may cost California more money than it saves.
When Melba Fritts was discharged from the hospital after bronchitis three years ago, doctors wanted her to go directly to a nursing home. Confined to a wheel chair and plagued by swelling limbs and skin sores, the 88-year-old Fritts suffers from congestive heart disease and diabetes. She needs full-time care.
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TS-Si News Service Sunday, 05 June 2011 Providence, RI, USA. Injured adolescent females are more likely than males to be injured by a relative or intimate partner, and are more likely to be injured by a single assailant, a profile that differs from that commonly associated with adolescent ... |
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TS-Si News Service Saturday, 04 June 2011 Chicago, IL, USA. A new baseline study documents how morally laden scenarios get changing responses as people age.
Both preschool children and adults distinguish between damage done either intentionally or accidently when assessing whether a perpetr... |
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 03 June 2011 Raleigh, NC, VA, USA. A new study demonstrates the difficulty of studies that take up sexual communication those commonly referred to as transgender by many researchers.
The findings provide academic validation of field workers who have reported the... |
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 Christine Vestal (Stateline) Wednesday, 01 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. After two decades of experimenting with managed care in Medicaid, a growing number of states are expanding its use.
Why do so many states want to put more Medicaid patients into managed care programs? What has been the states' ... |
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 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 31 May 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Contrary to previous reports, higher spending levels on medical services means better overall health for Medicare participants, a conclusion drawn from analyzing data from more than 17,000 Medicare beneficiaries.
Policymakers consi... |
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 27 May 2011 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 ... |
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 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 26 May 2011 Bristol, United Kingdom. Thirty percent of women would trade at least one year of their life to achieve their ideal body weight and shape.
Findings from a survey of university women in the United Kingdom highlight that body image issues are not limi... |
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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.
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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.
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 24 May 2011 Medford/Somerville, MA, USA. Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study.
Both whites and blacks agree that anti-black racism has decreased over the ... |
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TS-Si News Service Sunday, 22 May 2011 Colchester, UK. How you think about death affects how you behave in your life. That is the conclusion of researchers who had people either think about death in the abstract or in a specific, personal way.
They found people who thought specifically a... |
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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, ... |
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