Texting Study Shows Women Wear Their Emoticons on Their Sleeves
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(HOUSTON, Texas) — The folks over at Rice University, having apparently figured out everything else there is to know about everything, have turned their attention to those sometime grating graphic symbols called emoticons that …
Texting Study Shows Women Wear Their Emoticons on Their Sleeves
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(HOUSTON, Texas) — The folks over at Rice University, having apparently figured out everything else there is to know about everything, have turned their attention to those sometime grating graphic symbols called emoticons that …
Happiness Isn’t Always What It’s Cracked Up to Be
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) — “Don’t worry, be happy” may seem like good advice, but studies show that being too happy can actually backfire on you.Yale University psychology professor June Gruber pulls no punches in re…
Boredom, Constant Cheer, Cynicism and Other Job Hazards
Christopher Robbins/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Paul Spector was never as bored as the summer he spent after high school working in a contact lens factory. His job was cutting each contact lens out of a sheet of plastic.Now a professor studying industria…
Dogs Can Mimic Human Gaze, Researchers Find
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Dogs may be as receptive to certain human communication signals as infants are, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology. Hungarian researchers found that dogs’ eyes follow where a person is l…
Men and Women Cut from Different Cloths, Study Finds
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(LONDON) — A new study finds evidence to support the theory that men and women are truly from different personality planets.A new British study of 10,000 people found that the two genders share only 10 percent of personality tr…