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Social Behaviour

19 Apr 2021

Older adults most likely to make effort to help others

According to a research, adults aged 55 to 85 have a more effortful 'prosocial' behaviour as compare to adults between 18 to 36 years age group Younger adults found to be more selfish and were much more likely to put in higher levels of effort to benefit themselves

Colour-emotions

13 Sep 2020

Colour-emotion associations are similar across the world, reveals study

Scientists report that the participants were asked to fill out an online questionnaire, which involved assigning up to 20 emotions to twelve different colour terms. The participants were also asked to specify the intensity with which they associated the colour term with the emotion. The researchers then calculated the national averages for the data and compared these with the worldwide average.

03 Dec 2018

Bigger brain could make you only a little smarter than others

The findings suggest that factors such as parenting style, education, nutrition, stress, and others are likely major contributors to one's smartness.

Psychological Science

07 May 2018

Male attractiveness not linked to women's hormone levels: Survey

These findings, published in the journal Psychological Science, run counter to the common assumption that sexual selection pressures lead women to prefer more masculine mates, who supposedly have greater genetic "fitness," when they are most fertile and most likely to conceive.

01 Mar 2016

Researchers find variable affecting long life

Using two types of statistical analysis, the researchers were able to assess the relative importance of a total of 65 different variables in predicting participants' mortality risk.

Death of spouse

31 Jan 2016

Even after death, spouse impacts your well-being

Intriguingly, the results revealed interdependence between partners even when one partner died during the study.

17 Jan 2016

No shortcuts to read quickly and understand

However, skilled readers read quickly, averaging 200 to 400 words per minute, the findings showed.

22 Sep 2015

Kids easily recall things tomorrow what they forgot initially

A new study has found that sometimes kids can remember a piece of information better a few days later, instead of the day they first learnt it.

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