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In Solving Social Dilemmas, Vervet Monkeys Get by With a Little Patience
March 28, 2013 People could learn a lot from vervet monkeys. When vervets need to work together, they don't tell each other what to do or punish uncooperative behavior. But according to new evidence, they do get ... > full story -
Seeing Happiness in Ambiguous Facial Expressions Reduces Aggressive Behavior
March 28, 2013 Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, ... > full story -
Teens' Struggles With Peers Forecast Long-Term Adult Relationships
March 28, 2013 Teens' struggles to connect with their peers in early adolescence while not succumbing to negative peer influences predict their capacity to form strong friendships and avoid serious problems. In a ... > full story -
How Does Innovation Take Hold in a Community? Math Modeling Can Provide Clues
March 27, 2013 Mathematical models can be used to study the spread of technological innovations among individuals connected to each other by a network of peer-to-peer influences, such as in a physical community or ... > full story -
Human Emotion: We Report Our Feelings in 3-D
March 26, 2013 Like it or not and despite the surrounding debate of its merits, 3-D is the technology du jour for movie-making in Hollywood. It now turns out that even our brains use three dimensions to communicate ... > full story -
Five Year-Olds Who Watch TV for Three or More Hours a Day More Likely to Be Antisocial: But the Risk of This Behaviour Is Very Small
March 25, 2013 Five year-olds who watch TV for three or more hours a day are increasingly likely to develop antisocial behaviors, such as fighting or stealing by the age of seven, indicates new ... > full story -
Researchers Discover the Brain Origins of Variation in Pathological Anxiety
March 25, 2013 New findings from nonhuman primates suggest that an overactive core circuit in the brain, and its interaction with other specialized circuits, accounts for the variability in symptoms shown by ... > full story -
Artifacts Shed Light on Social Networks of the Past
March 25, 2013 The advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have made us all more connected, but long-distance social networks existed long before the Internet. A new study led by an ... > full story -
Parent-Child Violence Leads to Teen Dating Violence, Study Suggests
March 25, 2013 Teen dating violence is all too common and according to researchers it is a reflection of the relationships teens have with their parents or their parent’s ... > full story -
Same-Sex Parents Are Judged More Harshly Than Heterosexual Parents, Study Suggests
March 25, 2013 Is there a double standard for gay parents? A new study suggests that gay parents are being judged more harshly than straight ... > full story
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