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• Top four reasons why diets fail
• Gene variant linked to active personality traits also linked to human longevity
• New study links low wages with hypertension, especially for women and younger workers
• Online science news with user comments fraught with unintended consequences, study suggests
• Time pressure enhances thrill of auctions
• Secretive food concocting: New characteristic of binge eating identified
• 'Universal' personality traits don't necessarily apply to isolated indigenous people
• Cognitive difficulties associated with menopause described
• Cup color influences the taste of hot chocolate
• Generational changes cause drop in U. S. support for school prayer

Top four reasons why diets fail Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:23 PM PST Only twenty percent of people will lose weight and keep it off this year, despite research that two-thirds of Americans admit to being on a diet. Here are the top four reasons where dieters go wrong, according to experts.

Gene variant linked to active personality traits also linked to human longevity Posted: 03 Jan 2013 12:15 PM PST A variant of a gene associated with active personality traits in humans seems to also be involved with living a longer life, researchers have found. People who carry this variant gene seem to be more motivated to pursue social, intellectual and physical activities. The variant is also linked to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and addictive and risky behaviors, researchers say.

New study links low wages with hypertension, especially for women and younger workers Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:32 AM PST Workers earning the lowest wages have a higher risk of hypertension than workers with the highest wages, according to new research.

Online science news with user comments fraught with unintended consequences, study suggests Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:32 AM PST A science-inclined audience and wide array of communications tools make the Internet an excellent opportunity for scientists hoping to share their research with the world. But that opportunity is fraught with unintended consequences. New research shows the tone of comments posted by other readers can make a significant difference in the way new readers feel about the article's subject. The less civil the accompanying comments, the more risk readers attributed to the research described in the news story.

Time pressure enhances thrill of auctions Posted: 03 Jan 2013 10:11 AM PST Shopping is more than the rational exchange of goods against money. Emotions, however, do not only play a role when buying a red sports car or the fiftieth pair of shoes. At the stock exchange or during auctions, bidders also are often influenced by irrational motives.

Secretive food concocting: New characteristic of binge eating identified Posted: 03 Jan 2013 10:07 AM PST A new study suggests food concocting -- the making of strange food mixtures like mashed potatoes and Oreo cookies, frozen vegetables mixed with mayonnaise, and chips with lemon, pork rinds, Italian dressing and salt -- is common among binge eaters. The findings reveal that 1 in 4 survey participants secretly create concoctions.

'Universal' personality traits don't necessarily apply to isolated indigenous people Posted: 03 Jan 2013 06:52 AM PST Five personality traits widely thought to be universal across cultures might not be, according to a study of an isolated Bolivian society.

Cognitive difficulties associated with menopause described Posted: 03 Jan 2013 06:20 AM PST The memory problems that many women experience in their 40s and 50s as they approach and go through menopause are both real and appear to be most acute during the early period of post menopause.

Cup color influences the taste of hot chocolate Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:32 AM PST Hot chocolate tastes better in an orange or cream colored cup than in a white or red one, new research has shown. The study adds to recent research demonstrating how our senses perceive food in a different way depending on the characteristics of the container from which we eat and drink.

Generational changes cause drop in U. S. support for school prayer Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST A new study maps a decline in advocacy for school prayer starting in the 1970s and accelerating as skeptical Baby Boomers became ascendant. Support remains markedly lower today among Catholics and mainline Protestants yet unwaveringly high among evangelicals.

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