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- Privacy law expert warns of the perils of social media and social reading
- Why do people choke when the stakes are high? Loss aversion may be the culprit
- Sunscreen ingredient may be linked to endometriosis
- Babies' brains benefit from music lessons, even before they can walk and talk
- Improved waiting area design increases customer comfort
- Self-worth needs to go beyond appearance, experts say
- Reusable grocery bags kept in bathroom implicated in norovirus outbreak
- Emotion can shut down high-level mental processes without our knowledge, in our native language
- HPV vaccine completion rate among girls is poor, getting worse
| Privacy law expert warns of the perils of social media and social reading Posted: 09 May 2012 02:58 PM PDT The Internet and social media have opened up new vistas for people to share preferences in films, books and music. Services such as Spotify and the Washington Post Social Reader already integrate reading and listening into social networks, providing what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls "frictionless sharing." "But there's a problem. A world of automatic, always-on disclosure should give us pause," says a privacy law expert.  |
| Why do people choke when the stakes are high? Loss aversion may be the culprit Posted: 09 May 2012 11:00 AM PDT In sports, on a game show, or just on the job, what causes people to choke when the stakes are high? A new study suggests that when there are high financial incentives to succeed, people can become so afraid of losing their potentially lucrative reward that their performance suffers.  |
| Sunscreen ingredient may be linked to endometriosis Posted: 09 May 2012 09:38 AM PDT Scientists are reporting a possible link between the use of sunscreen containing a certain ingredient that mimics the effects of the female sex hormone estrogen and an increased risk of being diagnosed with endometriosis, a painful condition in which uterine tissue grows outside the uterus.  |
| Babies' brains benefit from music lessons, even before they can walk and talk Posted: 09 May 2012 09:36 AM PDT After completing the first study of its kind, researchers have discovered that very early musical training benefits children even before they can walk or talk. They found that one-year-old babies who participate in interactive music classes with their parents smile more, communicate better and show earlier and more sophisticated brain responses to music.  |
| Improved waiting area design increases customer comfort Posted: 09 May 2012 08:14 AM PDT A researcher has studied restaurant design and has recommendations for how restaurateurs can design waiting areas to be more comfortable, thus increasing diners' willingness to wait for a table.  |
| Self-worth needs to go beyond appearance, experts say Posted: 09 May 2012 07:53 AM PDT Women with high family support and limited pressure to achieve the 'thin and beautiful' ideal have a more positive body image. That's according to a new study looking at five factors that may help young women to be more positive about their bodies, in the context of a society where discontent with appearance is common among women.  |
| Reusable grocery bags kept in bathroom implicated in norovirus outbreak Posted: 09 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT Investigators recently mapped the trail of an outbreak of a nasty stomach bug among participants in a girls' soccer tournament to a reusable open top grocery bag stored in a hotel bathroom. Their findings illustrate the role that inanimate objects can play in spreading norovirus infection.  |
| Emotion can shut down high-level mental processes without our knowledge, in our native language Posted: 08 May 2012 02:35 PM PDT Psychologists believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. They have identified a reaction to negative language inputs which shuts down unconscious processing. The psychologists extrapolate this from their most recent findings working with bilingual people.  |
| HPV vaccine completion rate among girls is poor, getting worse Posted: 04 May 2012 02:21 PM PDT The proportion of insured girls and young women completing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among those who initiated the series has dropped significantly -- as much as 63 percent -- since the vaccine was approved in 2006, according to new research.  |
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