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Are You A “Grammar Nazi”? Here’s What That Reveals About Your Personality

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Weve all come across those kinds of people who are overly picky with apostrophes andtypos. But according to a recent study, being a grammar Nazi could reveal something unexpected about your personality.

The study, published in PLOS One, was carried out by linguistsJulie Boland and Robin Queen.

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Selective Killing Can Affect Elephants for Decades

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Culling is the act of selectively killing animals for population control. For the first time, researchers have shown that the effects of these mass killings can last for decades.

It might not seem obvious when looking at an elephant population, but social interactions and responses to cues are severely damaged in groups that have survived a cull. These interruptions in social development have the potential to cause <a href="http://news.sciencemag.o Continue reading Selective Killing Can Affect Elephants for Decades

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Children Exposed To Drug Cartel Violence Face Increased Risk Of Mental Health Problems

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Between 2008 and 2011, Ciudad Juarez, which sits on the Mexico-UnitedStatesborder, was the epicenterof a fierce turf war between some of the Latin American nations most notorious drug cartels. The number of homicides in the city topped 3,000 in 2010, yet the psychological scarring this left on infants growing up amidthe violence had until now remained largely undocumented.

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Why Arent More People Vegetarian?

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Im vegetarian. Im vegan. These statements typically will be met with a range of reactions, varying from bafflement to praise. But what makes people adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet? How are vegetarians and vegans viewed by the rest of society? And why dont more people become vegetarian?

The ethics of eating

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How Ignorant Is Your Country?

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Were often pretty wrong about many of the key social issues in our countries, as many of the misanthropes and sceptics among you may already know.

Ipsos Mori, a market research firm, has developed a quiz to assess just how wrong yourperceptions of modern-day issues in your country might be. The data was sourced through 25,556 interviews across 33 countries between October 1 andOctober16, 2015.

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Here’s What The Weather Does To Your Body

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It seems that all humans have an obessionwiththe weather (not just the British). As testament to how much weather can influenceour emotions, astudy last year found that 7 percent of Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time were about the weather. And thats for good reason; being mesmerized by meteorology is steeped in our evolutionary biology and psychology.

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How Psychology Can Help Us Solve Climate Change

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The Paris agreement on climate change calls for a global responsibility to cooperate. As we are often reminded, we urgently and drastically need to limit our use of one shared resource fossil fuels and its effect on another the climate. But how realistic is this goal, both for national leaders and for us? Well, psychology may hold some answers.

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Study Claims People Who Like Their Coffee Black Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Tendencies

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Howd you take your coffee? According to new research, people who like itstrong and black are more likely to have psychopathic tendencies.While interesting, we should take this study with a grain of saltand tread carefully when interpreting the findings.

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The Seasons Could Actually Alter Your Brain

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Just as the leaves fall or the sunlight hours rise, you brain could havean internal rhythm tied to the pattern of the seasons, according to a study recently published in Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences.

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They Called It The Tranquilizing Chair, But This Thing Was Anything But Tranquil

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Throughout human history, treatment of the mentally ill has typically been terrible. Looking through old medical and psychology textbooks, you’ll find that the majority of treatments for the mentally ill were barbaric at best.

And just when you thought you knew all of the horrible things that these psychologists used to do, something new surfaces.

This is an 1810 drawing of something called a “tranquilizing chair.”

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