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Social Media Addiction
Read more: Social Media AddictionCollege students are hooked on Facebook, et al. Didn’t really take a study, but… According to researchers, students describe their feelings when they have to abstain from using media in literally the same terms associated with drug and alcohol addictions: in withdrawal, frantically craving, very anxious, extremely antsy, miserable, jittery, and crazy.
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Online Dating Pay Site Takedown
Read more: Online Dating Pay Site TakedownA lively takedown of pay dating sites on the OkCupid Blog–simultaneously demystifying the online dating process. There is a negative correlation between the number of messages a man sends per day to the reply rate he gets.The more messages you send, the worse response rate you get. It’s not hard to see why this would…
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Trust Study
Read more: Trust StudyAt PsyBlog, a study shows people overestimate their own trustworthiness and underestimate the trustworthiness of others: In one experiment people honoured the trust placed in them between 80% and 90% of the time, but only estimated that others would honour their trust about 50% of the time.
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Alzheimer’s and Reading
Read more: Alzheimer’s and ReadingThough talking may go, reading is still possible for many Alzheimer’s patients, reports the NYT: Caregivers may be surprised to learn that reading ability is not always destroyed by Alzheimer’s. “All of my research demonstrates that people who were literate maintain their ability to read until the end stages of dementia”…
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Obesity and Dementia Linked
Read more: Obesity and Dementia LinkedStudies show a connection between obesity and dementia, reports Olivia Judson in the NYT: In the United States today, around one-third of adults are obese. At the same time, dementia is already one of the most costly and devastating health problems of old age. The possibility that obesity today will lead to higher rates of…