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Aug 31, 2011

Presidential Approval Ratings (Infographic)

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Jul 31, 2011

Tips for Parents of the iGeneration

How does a parent best raise a teen growing in a culture of constant communication they just don't understand? Kids are still kids, and kids need parents. Good parenting is linked to everything good all the way though your life, said Larry Rosen, a researcher at California State University and...

Jul 31, 2011

British Men May Have a Hunter-Gatherer Past

British men may trace their lineage back to hunter-gatherers, not farmers as had previously been suspected. A new genetic lineage study finds that, contrary to previous research, British men do not descend from immigrant farmers who migrated west from the Near East around 10,000 years ago. Instead, the new study...

Jun 30, 2011

Wide Faces Predict Unethical Behavior

A man's face might hint whether he is bad to the bone, with scientists finding that wider faces might predict unethical behavior in men. Wide faces in men have been linked with aggression and perceptions of untrustworthiness. Now researchers have discovered that broad-faced men appear more likely to deceive their...

Jun 30, 2011

Get Kraken: Why Scientists Should Study Sea Monsters

From the Loch Ness Monster to the Kraken, sea monsters still capture the imagination centuries after medieval cartographers doodled them in the blank spots of their maps. But to Charles Paxton, a researcher at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, sea monster sightings are more than fish tales. Paxton...

Jun 30, 2011

Engineering a New Face After Injury

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Today, surgeons face many limitations when it comes to helping a patient who suffers from a severe craniofacial injury, or an injury pertaining to the skull and the face. Most often a result of...

Jun 30, 2011

Sea Serpent Hunt Underway in Alaska

Video footage obtained from the waters off the coast of Alaska in 2009 contains what some claim is strong evidence of a sea serpent. It was examined by brothers Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand, captains of a fishing boat featured on the television show Deadliest Catch, who then decided to hunt...

Jun 30, 2011

8 Ways to Ruin Your Relationship

While most of the time we try and stay positive here on World of Psychology, every now and again reality sucker-punches us back to our senses (although not personally affecting me). The fact remains that despite our wise advice over the years, we haven't budged the divorce rate in the...

May 31, 2011

Carrot or Stick? Both Work to Spur Cooperation

If you want to encourage cooperation, do you break out the carrot or the stick? A new study finds that either should work: Rewarding good behavior is equally as effective as punishing bad. A shame tactic can be effective, but rather surprisingly, we've also found that apparently honor has an...

May 31, 2011

From Inventor to Engineer

Jason Clark has an innate curiosity of how the world works. As a youngster, his curiosity led him to build a working-scale model of a volcano — on top of his mother's prized dining table. Mother was not amused. Clark's curiosity is now more focused. The enthusiastic young professor with...

May 31, 2011

The Benefits of Studying Bees

This ScienceLives article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Marla Spivak is a MacArthur Fellow and Distinguished McKnight Professor and Extension Entomologist in the Department of Entomology at the University of Minnesota. Her research and extension efforts focus on honeybee health, breeding, behavior and on...

May 31, 2011

Americans Like Baby Boys Best

If they were only allowed to have one child, more Americans would prefer it be a boy rather than a girl, a new survey finds. Despite the intervening woman's movement, the results are very similar to those found when the same question was asked of Americans in 1941. The Gallup...

Apr 30, 2011

Punchline in Story of Bipedalism: Our Ancestors Stood Up to Fight

Humans might have evolved our two-footed posture for its fighting advantage; we punch harder standing than on all fours, and downward punches are much more forceful than upward ones. This could also be one reason why many females prefer taller mates, a new study finds. Selection for aggressive performance and...

Apr 30, 2011

When Doomsday Isn't, Believers Struggle to Cope

If you're reading this, Harold Camping's predictions that the end of the world would start Saturday (May 21) failed to pan out. That's good news for most of us, but Camping and his followers were looking forward to the end. After all, they believed that they were likely to be...

Apr 30, 2011

Most Divisive Moral Issues Revealed in Poll

Matters of birth and death are most likely to pit Americans against one another, according to new Gallup poll results finding that doctor-assisted suicide, abortion and having a baby out of wedlock are the most divisive issues in the United States. According to the poll results, released Tuesday (May 31),...