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Psychology of food choice: Challenging the status quo

From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology media release: Researchers are challenging conventional beliefs about the effectiveness of traditional strategies for encouraging healthy eating. The symposium, “Challenging Misconceptions About the Psychology of Food Choice,”… 

Image-guided treatment shown to break the migraine cycle

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From the Society of Interventional Radiology media release: An innovative interventional radiology treatment has been found to offer chronic migraine sufferers sustained relief of their headaches, according to research being presented at the Society of… 

Many memories, many rooms

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From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology media release: Researchers have long wondered if there is an upper limit to our capacity to store memories and how we manage to remember so many events… 

Punishing kids for lying just does not work

From the McGill University media release: If you want your child to tell the truth, it’s best not to threaten to punish them if they lie. That’s what researchers discovered through a simple experiment involving… 

Criminologist ‘hacks’ the hacker

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From the Kansas State University media release: We often view hackers as evil geniuses, but perhaps a more accurate depiction would be a talented — though sometimes mischievous — craft worker, according to a Kansas… 

Focusing on the success of others can make us selfish

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From the UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM media release: It is believed that the success of humans as a species depends to a large extent on our ability to cooperate in groups. Much more so than any other…