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60-Second Mind

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60-Second Mind
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  • 60-Second Mind

    Up Your Online Dating Game with Evidence-Based Strategies

    14/02/2015 | 3 mins.
    Choosing a user name starting with a letter appearing earlier in the alphabet is just one scientifically vetted way to increase the odds of turning an online encounter into a first date. Christopher Intagliata reports
  • 60-Second Mind

    Junk Diet Rewires Rat Brains

    07/02/2015 | 2 mins.
    High-calorie and exceedingly pleasurable foods appear to change rat brain rewards circuitry, causing the rodents to continue to seek such fare. Erika Beras reports
  • 60-Second Mind

    High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing

    31/01/2015 | 2 mins.
    Parkinson’s patients derived more benefits from a salt solution they were told was an expensive drug than from the same solution when it was described as being cheap medication. Karen Hopkin reports
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    Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits

    30/12/2014 | 2 mins.
    Of studies presented at conferences, those that found a cognitive benefit to bilingualism were almost twice as likely to get published in journals as were studies finding no benefit. Karen Hopkin reports
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    Inclusion Illusion Lessens Racial Bias

    20/12/2014 | 2 mins.
    Implicit bias against another race lessened after volunteers experienced themselves via virtual reality as a member of that race. Karen Hopkin reports
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