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Patients can relearn emotional skills
Brain injury patients who have lost the ability to interpret emotion can learn to read feelings again by studying body-language, according to new research.
When It Comes To What's For Dinner, Baboon Society Is No Democracy
In decisions about where to eat, baboons don't all have an equal say, according to a new report. Rather, most baboons in a group will follow their leader to a...
Uncertainty Can Be More Stressful Than Clear Negative Feedback
We are faced with uncertainty every day. Will our investments pay off? Will we get the promotions we are hoping for? When faced with the unknown, most people experience some...
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Vast water glaciers found on Mars ... Abuse of politicians' DNA feared ... 25,000 Americans don't know they have HIV ... Study: Females bond through language ... Health/Science news from...
Bush Set To Ease Endangered Species Rules
Preisdent Bush is set to install new rules that would exclude input of wildlife scientists when federal construction projects are proposed. Bush hopes to enact them before Friday, preventing President-elect...
Dead Teen's Mom Testifies In MySpace Trial
The grieving mother of a Missouri girl told a jury how her daughter hanged herself after receiving cruel messages on her MySpace account, some of which came from a neighbor...
When the Stress is Critical, Avoid Pseudoscience, Psychologist Says
(PhysOrg.com) -- A case study of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, known as CISD, shows that this approach to crisis management meets all criteria for a pseudoscience. The good news is...
Racialised communication met with silence in the classroom
A new article in the journal Communication, Culture and Critique illustrates the ways some college students bear the costs of silence-mediated racialised communication in their everyday classroom activities. Specifically, the...
Sexually harassed employees experience less job satisfaction and lower job performance
A new study in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly examined the effects of workplace sexual harassment and found that employees who were harassed report lower levels of job satisfaction,...
Certain skills are predictors of reading ability in young children
A new study in the journal Learning Disabilities Research and Practice reveals that differences found between pre-kindergarten reading-disabled children and their typically reading peers diminish in various measures by pre-first...
Chinese government sued for denying HIV remedy
A Chinese biotech company is suing the government for refusing to license its "effective" herbal HIV treatment.
Abuse of politicians' DNA feared
BOSTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Two scientists called for ground rules to prevent an abuse of genetic information about U.S. presidential candidates, which will likely available in four...
Texas debates place of evolution in education
Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution grabbed center stage Wednesday as State Board of Education members heard from dozens of Texans trying to influence the panel on how evolution...
Employee engagement dependent upon conditions created by employer
In a new article in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, William H. Macey and Benjamin Schneider examine the meaning of employee engagement, which they view as leading to unusually effective employee...
Attorneys play down woman's role in cyberbully case
Lori Drew didn't hatch the plan to woo and humiliate her daughter's former friend, didn't create the fake MySpace account used and didn't send any of the messages to 13-year-old...
Study suggests 'hanging out' on Facebook, MySpace not a waste for teens
Some might call it unproductive. Or maybe a bad habit. Or just a frivolous distraction. Or even dangerous. Julianne Howell, a freshman at St. Joseph's Academy, calls her daily Facebook...
As phone usage changes, wireless survey experts say research will too
Perhaps as never before, national polls generated almost daily discussion of how voters felt about this year's presidential candidates and related political issues...
How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- If space-time were constructed in such a way that you could travel back in time, it would create some pretty strange effects. One of these oddities, as many...
Teenagers learn important social, technical skills online: study
Parents may disapprove of the amount of time their teenagers spend online but they are actually learning important social and technical skills, according to a study released on Thursday.
Manitoba's Opposition wants review of ER services after Sinclair death
Manitoba's Conservative Opposition is demanding an independent external review into the death of Brian Sinclair, who was found dead after waiting 34 hours in a hospital emergency waiting room in...
Removing Part Of Brain Controls Girl's Epilepsy
Surgeons told Jessica Nelson one of the scariest things she will ever hear as a parent: they wanted to treat her daughter's epilepsy by cutting out or disconnecting half of...
Official: No 'girls gone wild' epidemic
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The number of girls under age 18 arrested for violent crimes fell 17 percent from a decade earlier, U.S. Justice Department research says.
The Reality of Disputed Medical Maladies
Gulf War Syndrome is real, but what about chronic fatigue, multiple personalities and breast implant disorders?
Razib Khan: Polygamy may be the natural, though unfair, order of things
Razib Khan: Some religions accept polygamy; others abhor it. But in nature, it's often a case of winner-takes-all-the-wives
Stress warps brains and behavior, researchers say
Scientists have discovered how stress - in the form of emotional, mental or physical tension - physically reshapes the brain and causes long-lasting harm to humans and animals.
Let a friend be your backup partner
It's not "If" your hard drive will fail, it's "When." I've been saying it for years and will continue to do so. Sooner or later something bad will happen and...
Motrin ad a pain for Johnson & Johnson
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. giant Johnson & Johnson said it pulled an online ad for Motrin pain reliever after consumers protested that the ad...
Moderate pay best for job performance, study suggests
(PhysOrg.com) -- Employers hoping to get the best out of employees with huge performance contingent payments may actually be helping them to do worse, suggests a new paper published by...