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Overweight political candidates tend to receive fewer votes than their thinner opponents, finds a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University weight bias expert.

Mixing alcohol with energy drinks (A+ED) has become increasingly popular among adolescents and young adults, and is also associated with numerous harms.

Most discrimination in the U.S. is not caused by intention to harm people different from us, but by ordinary favoritism directed at helping people similar to us, according to a theoretical review…

Methamphetamine users showed less sensitivity to risk and reward in one region of the brain and greater sensitivity in other brain regions compared with non-users when performing an exercise involving risky decision making. The authors used functional …

An unprecedented research conducted by a group of neuroscientists has demonstrated that it is possible to train brain patterns associated with empathic feelings. Volunteers who received neurofeedback about their own brain activity patterns whilst being…

A protein with a propensity to form harmful aggregates in the body when produced in the liver protects against Alzheimer’s disease aggregates when it is produced in the brain, researchers have discovered. The results suggest that drugs that can boost…

A new study found subtle differences in the brains of college football players when compared to other students.

Science supports the idea that romantic love can last, and more than our culture gives it credit for.

Social science research suggests risky behavior such as braving heights or swimming in deep waters increases your sex appeal.

Faces are of tremendous importance for human beings. That’s why in the course of the evolution our visual perception has specialized in the recognition of faces in particular. Until now researchers assumed that these distinct adaptation mechanisms are …