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Who Talks More: Men or Women?

August 4, 2014August 2, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

We’re going to spare you a wordy exposition and cut to the chase in a manly fashion: on average, men and women do pretty equal amounts of talking. However, men tend to talk more in big groups, and women tend to dominate one-on-one encounters. This comes courtesy of a study … Read More

Men Can’t Sound Sexier, Women Can

July 12, 2018August 1, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

Do a wicked Sean Connery? Well, don’t bother—men can’t manipulate their voices to sound any sexier than they actually are. Women can, though, but you probably already knew that. The study, counter-intuitively published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behaviour, examined whether men and women can manipulate their voices to sound … Read More

Love Makes Neurotic People More Stable

August 4, 2014July 31, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

Neuroticism is one of the Big Five personality traits. Neurotic people tend to be easily annoyed, anxious, and insecure, with a tendency towards depression. That sucks, right? Well, neurotic people can stabilize in a relationship. This result comes via a study published in the Journal of Personality. Researchers interviewed 245 … Read More

Too Much TV May Increase Early Death Risk

July 30, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

Watch more than three hours of TV a day? If so, we have two questions: how the hell do you have that much time? And do you know you might die sooner than the rest of us? Grim tidings come courtesy of a study published in the Journal of the … Read More

Only 25 Minutes of Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Stress

July 29, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

Stress is killing you—so how do you reduce it, quickly? According to a study published in Psychoneuroendocinology, you may need as little as twenty-five minutes of mindfulness meditation a day to reduce stress—which is handy, because it also improves your decision making and cures wandering attention. Researchers had sixty-six healthy … Read More