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• Up Your Online Dating Game with Evidence-Based Strategies

  February 14, 2015 · 3 min

  Choosing a user name starting with a letter appearing earlier in the alphabet is just one scientifically vetted way to increase the odds of turning an online encounter into a first date. Christopher Intagliata reports

• Junk Diet Rewires Rat Brains

  February 7, 2015 · 3 min

  High-calorie and exceedingly pleasurable foods appear to change rat brain rewards circuitry, causing the rodents to continue to seek such fare. Erika Beras reports

• High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing

  January 31, 2015 · 3 min

  Parkinson’s patients derived more benefits from a salt solution they were told was an expensive drug than from the same solution when it was described as being cheap medication. Karen Hopkin reports

• Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits

  December 30, 2014 · 3 min

  Of studies presented at conferences, those that found a cognitive benefit to bilingualism were almost twice as likely to get published in journals as were studies finding no benefit. Karen Hopkin reports

• Inclusion Illusion Lessens Racial Bias

  December 20, 2014 · 3 min

  Implicit bias against another race lessened after volunteers experienced themselves via virtual reality as a member of that race. Karen Hopkin reports

• Blood Test Forecasts Concussion Severity

  December 15, 2014 · 3 min

  Levels of a protein fragment in the blood paralleled how long head injuries benched hockey players. Ingrid Wickelgren reports

• Bouncy Gait Improves Mood

  December 8, 2014 · 3 min

  If you're in an up mood, you may walk more energetically. But a study finds that purposefully walking more energetically may improve your mood. Christie Nicholson reports

• Synchronized Walking Reduces Opponent's Perceived Size

  November 9, 2014 · 3 min

  Subjects who kept pace with a walking colleague estimated a potential enemy to be smaller and lighter than did other walkers who were not marching. Karen Hopkin reports