Research

According to a new study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ, men are considerably more likely than women to decorate their own work with plaudits, namely ones that elude to the paper’s novelty and perspicacity. Read More

“While other health behaviors like smoking, alcohol, and exercise are undoubtedly bigger predictors of mortality, these leisure and pleasure activities that people don’t think as a health-related activity do support good health and longevity,” … Read More

“Choose a task you’d like to get done, Something big, something small, something you’ve been putting off for a million years: it doesn’t matter. What matters is that it’s something that deserves your full, undivided attention.” … Read More

The growing minority of people that still get married take the event very seriously and expect their friends to do the same. Read More

Eating chili peppers at least four times a week can reduce your risk of dying of a heart attack by 40% and your risk of dying from a stroke by more than 50%. Read More

“Because people find failure ego-threatening, they will disengage from the experience, which means they stop paying attention, or, tune out,” the authors wrote. Read More

The privilege afforded by living a developed, high-calorie consuming Western country also poses a challenge for those who have access to high-calorie foods. Read More

“More research is needed to understand how taking long naps and sleeping longer hours at night may be tied to an increased risk of stroke, but previous studies have shown that long nappers and sleepers have unfavorable changes in their cholesterol levels and increased waist circumferences, both of which are risk factors for stroke.” … Read More

“There’s a narrative in our culture that generations are getting more and more narcissistic, but no one has ever looked at it throughout generations or how it varies with age at the same time,”  Chopik continued. Read More