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Jan 16, 2024

Resilience is a skill that can be cultivated, a psychologist explains

The word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a skill set? And can misperceptions about resilience hurt people, rather than help? To sum it up in a sentence: Resilience...

Jul 18, 2020

How did bachelor and bachelorette parties get started?

One last night on the town as an unmarried person — that's how we've come to characterize bachelor and bachelorette parties (or hen and stag-dos in the U.K.; Jack and Jill parties if you're in Australia). Marriage may not be the end of fun, but celebrating the end of an...

Jan 22, 2021

Toddler swallowed half a dozen tiny magnets. Some got stuck in his throat.

After a toddler swallowed six tiny-but-powerful magnets, two of them became stuck in his throat, adhering to each other and pinching his tissue, according to a new report of the case. The 3-year-old swallowed the magnetic beads, which were part of a toy, while his older sister was babysitting him,...

Mar 12, 2021

More twins are being born than ever before

Twin births are multiplying, a new study finds. Worldwide, more twins are being born now than ever before. Since the 1980s, the rate of twin births worldwide has increased by more than 30%, from 9 twin births per 1,000 deliveries in 1980-1985, to 12 twin births per 1,000 deliveries in...

Oct 14, 2022

The Shocking Truth About Married Girls

Women are getting married much earlier these days. At least some women. A recent raid on a spin-off Mormon sect in Texas was triggered by a 15-year-old girl notifying authorities that she had had a baby, and was presumably married when she conceived that baby. Oddly enough, we are more...

Nov 15, 2022

What is a second cousin?

If you can't keep your second cousins and your first cousins twice removed straight, you are not alone. But there's a simple way to figure out how you're related to Cousin Cletus or Great Aunt Margie. What is a cousin?Related articles —Why do people have different personalities? —Do any animals...

Feb 2, 2023

Why does heartbreak hurt so much? Science has the answer

Falling in love can feel intense and often leaves people giddy and euphoric. But severing that connection can trigger a rush of negative emotions that can feel physically painful too. These negative emotions are influenced by hormones — with increases in the stress hormones cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline, and reductions...

Jan 11, 2024

Humans can 'smell' each other's emotions — but we don't know how

After a viral infection robbed Chrissi Kelly, an American archeologist living in the U.K., of her sense of smell, she no longer felt like herself. It was as if she were floating away, untethered from the rest of the world. Smell, she says, is something that binds us to nature...

Feb 14, 2024

How to tell you're in love with someone, according to science

Is there a special someone you just can't get out of your head? Do you find yourself daydreaming about them when you should be working or studying? Does it feel different this time? Well, you might be in love — but how can you be sure? Interestingly, scientists have made...

Feb 29, 2024

Tinder, Hinge lawsuit raises question: Can dating apps be considered addictive?

A lawsuit filed on Valentine's Day claims that several popular dating apps are psychologically manipulative and addictive, encouraging compulsive use by people on the platforms. The claim is aimed at Match Group, which owns a variety of online dating platforms including Tinder, Hinge, The League, Match and Plenty Of Fish....

Oct 14, 2022

Scientists Want to Know What ;) Really Means

Are emojis the new body language? Right now, all scientists can say is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — which is why psychologists are calling for more research into why people use these symbols to communicate, and what it says about them when they do. More than 90 percent of people who use the...

Oct 14, 2022

Going for Gold! 7 Olympic Secrets to Success

LONDON – All Olympians have outsized athletic talent and event-specific skills. What separates the medalists from the nonmedalists, however, may often come down to psychology, researchers have found. In fact, some of the personality traits and habits associated with greater success at the Olympic Games may be applicable to nonathletes...

Oct 14, 2022

Will Your Toddler Be a Drinker? Personality May Tell

The personality traits of children in the first five years of their life may help predict alcohol use during teenage years, a new study shows. The study, detailed today (July 10) in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, reveals certain temperaments of kids that are correlated with teen drinking....

Oct 14, 2022

Heartbeats Hint at Personality Traits

Aspects of your personality can be revealed in a heartbeat, literally, a new study from Germany suggests. The study identified heartbeat signatures — wave patterns in the heart's electrical activity — that were linked with personality traits. People with certain heartbeat signatures scored higher on tests of neuroticism — meaning...

Oct 14, 2022

Haters Gonna Hate? Why Some People Dislike Everything

Nah, eh, no and ugh: These are the familiar sounds of people who don't seem to like much and conjure negative quips for just about anything. While people with more positive dispositions may try to shake enthusiasm unto these downers, new research helps to explain why this often doesn't work....