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So, you’re exercising to extend your life, improve your response to stress, and help your heart—but how hard are you doing it? Chances are, you’re overestimating the intensity of your exercise. That’s according to a new study out of Toronto’s York University and published in PLOS One. How bad is … Read More
7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science – Medium “When I was 17 years old, I used to work and study for about 20 hours a day. I went to school, did my homework during breaks and managed a not-for-profit organization at night. … Read More
We all lie a little bit—but the operative phase there is “little bit”. Most of us don’t lie that much. A tiny minority, however, lie constantly, and they’re responsible for most of the lying in the world. A study published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology surveyed over … Read More
You don’t have to look that far to find scientists and journalists talking about how bad casual sex is for you. The thing is, all people don’t respond to all behaviours equally—so why wouldn’t that be true of casual sex? A new study published in Social Psychological & Personality Science … Read More
In case the wide variety of food photography out there didn’t tip you off, people can be addicted to food. Hunger doesn’t even have to enter into the equation. This comes to us from a study published in Frontiers in Psychology. Researchers had groups of normally-sized people and groups of … Read More
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