How to haggle from a position of ignorance. I bought two rugs in Morocco, but the first purchase revealed a depth of naivité within me that is too painful to share. Let's just say that I overpaid. A couple of days later, I took the train from Rabat to Fes, which is Morocco's historic capital and it has what is recognized as the best preserved ...
Date Posted: December 5, 2011
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Your do-able wellness resolutions for 2012 can be about more than losing those same old 10 or 20 pounds. What about laying the foundation for a lifetime of mental health for starters? Here, I offer a top ten list of ways to safeguard your own and ...
Dec 3
GOIndividuals and courts deal more harshly with people who actively commit harm than with people who willfully allow the same harm to occur. A new study finds that this moral distinction is psychologically automatic. It requires more thought to see ...
Dec 3
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A strong ego is not the cause of decisions, but the result of them.Being a person takes work. Being the person you want to be takes special effort, much of it centered on making decisions everyone has to face but many try to avoid. Which is to say ...
Dec 2
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When Xavi Hernandez receives the soccer ball in his offensive half of the field, the Barcelona maestro has a world of decisions waiting for him. Hold the ball while his teammates arrive, make the quick through pass to a slicing Lionel Messi or move ...
Dec 2
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A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis of long-term effects of violent video game play on the brain has found changes in brain regions associated with cognitive function and emotional control in young adult men after one week of ...
Dec 1
GOStates that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs in public schools have significantly higher teenage pregnancy and birth rates than states with more comprehensive sex education programs, researchers from the University of Georgia have ...
Dec 1
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Parents of newborns show poorer adjustment to their new role if they believe society expects them to be "perfect" moms and dads, a new study shows.
Moms showed less confidence in their parenting abilities and dads felt more stress when they were ...
Nov 30
GOPeople with anorexia find comfort in their illness at first, but then it becomes over-powering and they end up battling for control of their own minds. That's according to Sarah Williams and Marie Reid, who conducted an online focus group and email ...
Nov 30
GOCreative people are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. "Greater creativity ...
Nov 29
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Men may think about sex more often than women do, but a new study suggests that men also think about other biological needs, such as eating and sleep, more frequently than women do, as well.
And the research discredits the persistent stereotype ...
Nov 29
GOIf you have an ADD partner, the messy, unplanned lifestyle can be overwhelming. One key to learning to cope with this lifestyle is to recognize that disorganization is not meant to make you mad. The messes and the unruly hours and erratic schedules ...
Nov 28
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Sleeping on problem really does help because dreaming provides overnight therapy for painful memories, a California University study has found.
When we enter the dream stage of sleep, known as REM, the stress systems in our brain become ...
Nov 28
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They say time heals all wounds, and new research from the University of California, Berkeley, indicates that time spent in dream sleep can help us overcome painful ordeals.
UC Berkeley researchers have found that during the dream phase of sleep, ...
Nov 25
GOHe says "Baby, I really, really want to make you happy," but she's not buying it. He's all talk and intention. She sees how he behaves and no, not only is he not making her happy, he's not really trying to figure out what it would take, how to ...
Nov 25
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As the Singapore Government looks at ways to deter frequent gamblers from patronising casinos, doctors Down Under have been advised to treat gambling addiction as a medical problem and to consider prescribing an anti-heroin drug to help problem ...
Nov 24
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