Like many Singaporeans, Bryan Ho loves his bak kwa (barbecued meat). However, over the recent Chinese New Year weekend, the 31-year-old IT consultant did his best to resist the treat while his family and friends scoffed them down.
"(Bak kwa) is the best thing during Chinese New Year, but I thought about how much exercise I'd have to do to work ...
Date Posted: February 1, 2012
GOIn "Transforming Toxic Leaders" (Stanford University Press, 2009) I testify that behind their corporate masks business leaders suffer hurt, pain and trauma. A traumatized boss is frequently the result of a gut wrenching rightsizing or downsizing. ...
Feb 1
GOAttentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of "work-oriented" skills in school children, according to a new study published by Dr. Linda Pagani, a professor and researcher at the University of Montreal and CHU Sainte-Justine. ...
Feb 1
GOResearch into some mental disorders receives disproportionate media coverage at the expense of other disorders. That's according to the first systematic study of the way the UK mass media covers mental illness. And in a wake-up call to psychology ...
Jan 31
GOHow fathers can maintain strong bonds with their physically maturing daughter . Some fathers are not quite sure how to react to their quickly developing daughters, and may withdraw as a result. The danger is that the daughter may internalize this ...
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Divorce at a younger age hurts people’s health more than divorce later in life, according to a new study by a Michigan State University sociologist.
Hui Liu said the findings, which appear in the research journal Social Science & Medicine, ...
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Being creative is hard. Thinking up ways to connect disparate elements into a whole that not only hasn't been seen before but also delights us with surprise, meaning, or beauty requires a great deal of energy—"executive function," as psychologists ...
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Children who develop autism already show signs of different brain responses in their first year of life, scientists said yesterday in a study that may in the future help doctors diagnose the disorder earlier.
British researchers studied 104 ...
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Lifelong criminals could be genetically programmed to break the law, a study claims. The idea crime could be in part genetic is extremely controversial because most criminologists argue the root causes of crime are environmental factors such as ...
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Sending a text message leads people to lie more often than in other forms of communication, according to new research by David Xu, assistant professor in the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University. The study involved 170 ...
Jan 28
GOA hallmark of the individual is the cultivation of personal interests, but for some people, their intellectual pursuits might actually be genetically predetermined. Survey results published by Princeton University researchers in the journal PLoS ONE ...
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A few short decades ago, the most violent scenes we were exposed to in the media involved Wile E. Coyote and an anvil. The nightly news did not display graphic evidence of riots or murders or even war. Movies did not market themselves based on the ...
Jan 28
GOPsychologists have found that buying life experiences makes people happier than buying possessions, but who spends more of their spare cash on experiences? New findings published this week in the Journal of Positive Psychology reveal extraverts and ...
Jan 27
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My computer went down yesterday. It just shut off in the middle of the project. The whir of the fan quieted. The screen buzzed and went black and no amount of plugging and unplugging and rebooting would get it going again.
So, I called my ...
Jan 27
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People are horrible at keeping secrets. As in, really, really bad at it (no matter what anyone may tell you to the contrary). And you know what? We’re right to be. Just like the two Rhesus Macaques in the picture above, we have an urge to spill ...
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