Category: Education
Junk food not main culprit for obesity
A new study from the Cornell University finds that eating junk food is not linked to a person’s weight. Researchers reviewed a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States and found that consumption of soda, candy and fast […]
One night of poor sleep is equivalent to six months of poor diet, study says
A new research shows that one night of poor sleep impairs insulin sensitivity as much as six months of a high-fat diet. When the body becomes less sensitive to insulin (insulin resistance), the body needs to produce more insulin to […]
Unconscious goal pursuit is effective
Always thinking about goals is not the only way to achieve them. A new study in the Journal or Marketing Research suggests that unconscious goal pursuit, or exposing yourself once to goal-related information, can be just as effective. “Suppose someone […]
Five-year-olds already have self-esteem
A study shows that children already have a sense of self-esteem as early as five years old. The new findings, published in the January 2016 issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, used a newly developed test to assess […]
Moody people adapt better
A new theory published November 3 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that mood draws on experiences and can, in fact, help us quickly adapt to changes in our environment. According to the new theory, as people learn from experiences […]
People use smartphones for five hours a day
People use their smartphones for an average of five hours a day or about a third of the time they are awake. People also check it about 85 times a day, research suggests. The study in the journal PLOS ONE […]
Method diagnoses Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms
Researchers at Gothenburg University developed a reference method to identify Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms appear now became an international standard. It will now be used to diagnose the disease worldwide. After decades of research, Henrik Zetterberg and Kaj Blennow at […]
Sleepwalkers don’t feel pain
Sleepwalkers don’t feel pain when they’re injured while asleep. Most of them aren’t even woken by an injury and only feel pain when they wake up the morning after. A study shows that sleepwalkers were nearly 4 times more likely […]
Route-learning changes brain tissue
Carnegie Mellon University scientists discovered that learning direction can change the brain. Published in NeuroImage, Tim Keller and Marcel Just show for the first time that brief navigation training changes a person’s brain tissue and improves how that changed tissue […]
Men prefer smart women—from a distance
A new study found that men say they prefer smart women, but are intimidated or less attracted when they interact with smart women face-to-face. “We found that men preferred women who are smarter than them in psychologically distant situations. Men […]
