Psychology

Not only is your hands sweating and your heart racing not harmful when you're trying to reach an agreement, it can be beneficial, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Business Administration and Management. USA). It is the conclusion reached by Ashley D. Brown and her colleagues through an experiment in which several subjects had to negotiate their working conditions. The participants who were predisposed to negotiate and who walked while they did so, sweating and thus increasing their heart rate, achieved a more favorable economic treatment than those who, with the same attitude, remained seated and relaxed. In contrast, those who had a negative attitude towards negotiation did worse if they moved than if they stayed still.

To decide whether we like a song or not, we take more into account what we see than what we hear.

It depends on whether the goal is for the relationship to be long-lasting. According to a study published recently in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, men who pursue a temporary relationship look for women with an attractive body.

We could update our status, post our latest photos and read what others publish in just half an hour, but compulsively repeating it leads us to surf for about three hours a day on Facebook. We spend more and more time nurturing our 2.0 relationships through this social network, and although a priori it fully satisfies us due to our human need for social connection, in the long run it causes discomfort and depression. This is the conclusion of a new study from the University of Michigan that delves into the mood of users for the first time.

Working or studying at a clean and tidy table helps us eat healthy, makes us more generous and charitable, and also pushes us to behave in a more conventional way. But a messy table also has its advantages, as it stimulates creative thinking and the generation of new ideas.

People who stay awake until the wee hours of the morning are more predisposed to develop anti-social personality traits, including psychopathic tendencies, according to a study by the University of Western Sydney (Australia) published in the journal 'Personality and Individual Differences' .

In light of the results of a novel study, it seems that we could distinguish the fans of Iron Maiden from those of Juanes, and not by their appearance, but by the activity of their brains. According to research, published in the journal Biological Psychology, preference for a musical genre modulates brain responses to music.

If one day you are walking down the street and suddenly a stranger passes you and lets out a 'big nose', it is possible that he could not help but criticize your nose. It is an example of what are known as complex non-obscene socially inappropriate symptoms characteristic of Tourette syndrome.