An investigation has concluded that the most materialistic people, that is, more concerned with buying the latest mobile model fresh from the factory, a high-end car, a bigger house, branded clothing ... always be up-to-date, Ultimately, they are destined to have a continuous state of dissatisfaction in their life.
A new study led by a team of researchers from Ohio State University (USA) shows how some people may be predisposed to be worse or better in a subject such as mathematics due to certain genetic factors.
Does stress affect men differently than women? This is the question asked by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Freiburg (Germany) and from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Italy. And the answer to this question is that, apparently, men tend to be more focused and less capable of empathy; just the opposite happens to women.
Apparently positive status updates, which convey joy and happiness, provoke exactly the same in others, which makes happiness viral thanks to social networks.
Why does someone next to us yawn seem to infect us with the yawn? Despite the fact that the act of yawning has always been considered "contagious" even for animals, a new study led by researchers at Duke University in North Carolina (USA) denies that this action is produced by simple empathy.
Say "Hello" and I'll tell you how you are. The first syllables of a conversation are decisive when it comes to making a good impression on others, since this dialogue is enough to reveal whether we are dominant people or, on the contrary, trustworthy. This is affirmed by an investigation carried out by psychologists from the University of Lethbridge (Canada), according to which, the intonation of a simple greeting throws information about our personality and conditions the opinion that the listener forms about us.
Preventive medicine has at its disposal a new tool to avoid future damage to our health: personality tests. Because depending on how you are or how you take life, more or less ballots you will have to get sick as you get older. This is indicated by a study carried out with 1,037 individuals from the New Zealand city of Dunedin by scientists from Duke University. The study consisted of monitoring this homogeneous group of people, born between April 1972 and March 1973, over time.
We are not all equally gifted at jokes. Many, from the outset, declare themselves insolvent in this field, and they are surely right. And then there is that embarrassing silence after telling the alleged grace: "Don't you get it?" We ask incredulously. We just giggled, nervously, we. What makes a joke good or makes some people tell better jokes than others?
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
