Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Kele Ding
24 Mar 2008
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Harvard Business School have found that it’s possible to buy happiness after all: when you spend money on others.
In a series of studies, UBC Asst. Prof. Elizabeth Dunn found that individuals report significantly greater happiness if they spend money “pro-socially” – that is on [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Kele Ding
This book represents the first systematic discussion of the Gateway Hypothesis, a developmental hypothesis formulated to model how adolescents initiate and progress in the use of various drugs. In the United States, this progression proceeds from the use of tobacco or alcohol to the use of marijuana and other illicit drugs. This volume presents a [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Kele Ding
18 Mar 2008
I drink coffee. Here is a research about coffee container. Source: Aradhna Krishna and Maureen Morrin, “Does Touch Affect Taste? The Perceptual Transfer of Product Container Haptic Cues.” Journal of Consumer Research: April 2008.
Does coffee in a flimsy cup taste worse than coffee in a more substantial cup? Firms such as McDonalds and [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Kele Ding
MCPHS Launches Innovative Online Master Of Applied Natural Products Program
10 Mar 2008
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, which last year successfully launched the region’s first Master of Applied Natural Products Degree program, has announced it plans to offer a Blended/Online Master of Applied Natural Products degree program in Fall 2008. It is targeted at [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Kele Ding
BDA China, a Beijing-based consulting and research firm has announced that there are 220 million Web surfers in China, a number which slightly surpasses the 217 million in the United States and makes the country the largest Internet-connected population in the world.
By the end of the year it is expected that China’s surfers will number [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Kele Ding
There are scientific explanations about why would someone as rich and powerful as Eliot Spitzer put his family, his job and his promising future on the line for an alleged $4,000 date with a prostitute. I was wondering if I have not seen such a question in the media in China because [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Kele Ding
16 Mar 2008
UroToday.com – Majority of Pelvic Pain Patients Have More Than One Pain Generating Diagnosis
Chronic pelvic pain afflicts up to 10% of women and results in billions of dollars in direct and indirect costs. Fenton and colleagues from an Akron, Ohio Pain Center determined the frequency and distribution of multiple pain-generating diagnoses in their [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Kele Ding
As the Twitter.com website puts it, “twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick..” Its original purpose is for people to “update”: What are you doing?. You do these by using your mobile phone, email, desktop application, or going to Twiter.com. The limitation [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Kele Ding
15 Mar 2008
Steven Small, professor of neurology and psychology at the University of Chicago, and colleagues Ana Solodkin and John Milton, are among a group science writers and neuroscientists featured in Your Brain On Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans, a new book that explores how the brain functions when people participate in [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Kele Ding
15 Mar 2008
Most people occasionally worry about germs, strange noises in the night, or whether they forgot to turn off the oven before leaving on vacation. But for as many as 5 million Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), such anxieties are constant and can almost literally take over their lives.
Now two expert clinical psychologists at [...]
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