Struggling to Reconcile Conflicting Beliefs? Listen to Some Mozart
Why is music such a constant in human history? Perhaps because it helps us build the emotional maturity we need to advance intellectually.
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When Working Out Doesn’t Work
A Danish study reveals that, when it comes to working out and losing weight, unintended consequences can hamper even the best of intentions.
Edginess Pays for Family Films
New research finds family films with more provocative content do better both critically and commercially.
Self-Control Slipping Away? Rinse. Spit. Repeat.
Australian researchers find rinsing one’s mouth with a glucose solution helps restore depleted self-control.
Head Games: Brain Injuries Intercept Football
Former professional football players are three times more likely to die of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and ALS than other Americans. But is it fair to blame concussions?
A Salty Solution to Global Warming
There is no shortage of ideas bouncing around about what to do with our warming planet–switch to renewables, switch…
Sexists in White Coats: Men Favored for Laboratory Jobs
New research finds a male applicant is more likely to be hired for a job as manager of a science laboratory manager.
My Nuclear Bomb Detonates More Safely Than Your Nuclear Bomb
In yet another example of the serendipity of science, a University of Michigan research team applied “cocrystallization”—a process…
For Greater Gender Equality, Introduce Yourself Online
New Canadian research finds that when men and women get to know one another in an online chat, gender differences usually found in face-to-face conversations are strikingly absent.
Money Degrades Our Ability to Empathize
New research finds that offering people money makes them less likely to correctly infer another person’s emotional state.