By acquiring certain objects, we are simply acting like social primates trying to impress. If we succeed, it is another story, warns the psychologist Geoffrey Miller, who has written a book on the consumerist side of the human being from an evolutionary point of view.
An investigation carried out from the Canary Islands reveals that Monday, October 26, has been the least productive day of 2009 on a global scale, due to the autumn time change.
Children who eat sweets and chocolates on a daily basis are more likely to become violent adults. It is the conclusion of a new study published this month in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
There is an almost universal association of the right with life, the right and the positive, and the left with death, the inappropriate and the bad. Culture takes this particular feature and transforms it into dogma, so that, for example, at a table we usually place our trusted person on the right.
Playing video games with strangers triggers testosterone levels, something that doesn't happen when playing with friends, according to a new study from the University of Missouri.
A liar is caught sooner than a lame person, the saying goes. Especially if his writing is analyzed, as a group of scientists from the University of Haifa, in Israel, has just demonstrated.
Being part of a social group can reduce the risk of suffering heart attacks and dementia and even prevent colds, according to a new work from the Australian universities of Exeter and Queensland presented at the British Science Festival.
Oren Hasson, an evolutionary biologist at Tel Aviv University, has developed a theory that crying is a highly evolved human behavior that brings us closer to 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.
