Merv Mandelbaum 
When it comes to political positions, it appears that we’re all a bit delusional. More to the point, liberals tend to underestimate the amount of agreement amongst those who share their political position, whilst conservatives tend to overestimate how much other conservatives agree with each other. A study published in … Read More
Laid up in bed with an injury? Break out the pen and paper. A study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology found that people who wrote expressively healed from a biopsy faster than people who did not. Forty-nine older adults took part in the study; half of them … Read More
Do you have low self-esteem and a crippling fear of death? Well, we have a cure for you: a brief but gentle touch. No, seriously: some scientists studied this. The study, which, I must emphasize is real, was published in Psychological Science. For the study, a team of Dutch researchers … Read More
Burning the midnight oil? You’ll probably follow that up with a nightcap. Or two. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal, people who work long hours also tend to drink more than those with less strenuous schedules. According to the researchers: “In a cross sectional analysis of … Read More
We love nearly everything about James Bond. His cars, his women, his sartorial sensibility, his shameless product tie-ins . . . and we especially love his ability to casually drink on the job, despite his bastardized choice of martini. However, according to scientists, James Bond is a raging alcoholic who … Read More
