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Stressful Life Experience Can ‘Age Your Brain,’ Research Suggests
We all know stress isn’t good for us, but according to new research, it can actually age your brain — and African-Americans are particularly at risk.
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Your Smartphone Is Making You Less Smart
If you’re like most people, your smartphone is probably within reach pretty much all of the time. But new research from the University of Texas at Austin suggests you might want to rethink that habit.
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Spacing Out Comes with One Very Negative Side Effect
The research, which was published in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, involved three different studies that tested nearly 400 people on their mind-wandering habits, as well as how much grit, i.e. For the first study, participants were asked to fill out an online questionnaire about how often their mind wandered in everyday life and how much grit they had. In the second study, the researchers had participants fill out another questionnaire but measured how aware people were of t
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Your Brain Knows When Other People Are Sick Before You Do
A Swedish study says that a person’s sense of sight and smell alone are enough to raise a red flag that someone is ill even before there are obvious signs.
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Win Your Next Argument by Citing Meaningless Neurobabble
Any nod to neuroscience will do, even if it doesn’t actually illuminate the problem at hand or prove anything that halfway resembles a point. People tend to find explanations that include references to the brain very convincing, even if those references are mostly nonsense, according to the latest episode of “Psych Crunch,” a podcast hosted by psychologist (and Science of Us contributor) Christian Jarrett. Related: What It’s Like to Remember Nothing From Your Past Jarrett interviews Sara Hodge
