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- Texting affects ability to interpret words
- Cell phone hackers can track your location without your knowledge
- In sickness and in health: Importance of supportive spouses in coping with work-related stress
- Common flame retardant linked to social, behavioral and learning deficits
- New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
- Puzzle play helps boost learning math-related skills
| Texting affects ability to interpret words Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:57 PM PST Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people's linguistic ability to interpret and accept words, according to a linguistics researcher.  |
| Cell phone hackers can track your location without your knowledge Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:57 PM PST Cellular networks leak the locations of cell phone users, allowing a third party to easily track the location of the cell phone user without the user's knowledge, according to new research by computer scientists.  |
| In sickness and in health: Importance of supportive spouses in coping with work-related stress Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:54 PM PST The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent years. Having just one stressed-out spouse can harm couple's work and home lives -- but what about when it's both?  |
| Common flame retardant linked to social, behavioral and learning deficits Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:43 AM PST Mice genetically engineered to be susceptible to autism-like behaviors that were exposed to a common flame retardant were less fertile and their offspring were smaller, less sociable and demonstrated marked deficits in learning and long-term memory when compared with the offspring of normal unexposed mice, a new study has found.  |
| New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:47 AM PST Why do some people behave morally while others do not? Sociologists have developed a theory of the moral self that may help explain the ethical lapses in the banking, investment and mortgage-lending industries that nearly ruined the U.S. economy.  |
| Puzzle play helps boost learning math-related skills Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:46 AM PST Children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial skills, researchers have found. Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition after controlling for differences in parents' income, education and the overall amount of parent language input.  |
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