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Iowa Study Finds Types Of Decision-Making Deficiencies Depend On Area Of Brain Damage
July 29, 1999 — Decision making highly depends on one's emotions. When a person cannot generate emotional responses to different circumstances, which can happen when certain parts of the brain become damaged, ... > full story -
Consumer Behavior
Racial Issues
Borderline Personality Disorder
Social Psychology
Language Acquisition
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A Material World: Defining Ourselves By Consumer Goods
May 18, 1999 — Throw out the family coat of arms, forget about which pew to sit in at church and don't even think about the family tree anymore. In late 20th century America, such social place markers once ... > full story -
Popcorn Lovers Eat More When Given Bigger Containers, Test Shows
March 5, 1999 — If you are what you eat, do you eat whatever's before you? Apparently so, at least when it comes to snack foods where size has become a major ingredient in ... > full story -
Women As Likely As Men To Last-Minute Christmas Shop, Survey Shows
December 18, 1998 — A new University of Florida survey finds that, contrary to conventional wisdom, women are just as likely as men to be standing in the check-out line Dec. ... > full story -
Television Violence Can Impair Memory For Commercial Messages, Says New Research
December 2, 1998 — Violent television programming impedes the viewer's memory of the commercial messages run during the program, according to new research in the December issue of the Journal of Experimental ... > full story -
Vulnerability To Compulsive Gambling Is Partly Inherited
November 11, 1998 — Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Louis studied twins to get a better idea of genetic influences on gambling behavior. Reporting ... > full story -
Carnegie Mellon Study Reveals Negative Potential Of Heavy Internet Use On Emotional Well Being
September 1, 1998 — -The Internet has the potential to make us socially isolated, lonely and depressed, according to the unexpected results of a study of home computer users by scientists at Carnegie Mellon ... > full story -
Pathological Gambling More Prevalent Among Youths Than Adults, Study Finds
August 20, 1998 — Between five and eight percent of young Americans and Canadians have a serious gambling problem (compared with one to three percent of adults). That is according to research conducted over the last ... > full story -
UF Researcher: Elderly Should Ignore Stereotypes About Memory Loss
July 23, 1998 — Older people are much less likely to have major memory problems if they believe in themselves and work to improve their recall, a newly released University of Florida study ... > full story -
Alcoholism
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Staying Healthy
Disorders and Syndromes
Borderline Personality Disorder
Consumer Behavior
Sweet Tooth, Personality Traits Diagnose Alcoholism
May 21, 1998 — A new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies offers compelling evidence that a strong preference for intense sweet taste combined ... > full story -
Tobacco And Drug Companies Compete For Consumers
October 2, 1997 — The billowing smoke from the national tobacco wars is obscuring an ironic, new economic development---the emerging, multi-billion dollar market for long-term nicotine ... > full story -
Researchers Identify Cognitive Process That Contributes To Gambling Behavior
June 4, 1997 — "Selective Hyposthesis Testing" -- the failure to consider more than one possible outcome when making decisions -- has been identified as one of the thinking processes that results in ... > full story
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