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Men's Brains Wired to 'Enjoy' Revenge More Than Women

Since when did America's frat boys become so interested in politics?

Over at the Wired science blog, Jonathan Lehrer examines the reaction to Osama bin Laden's killing, which brought out a disproportionate number of young men out into the streets of Washington D.C., New York and other American cities.

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Odds in Favor of College Men in Dating (and Hooking Up with) Women on Campus

Summer break is here for most college students, but male students already might be yearning for a return to campus. 
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Is Sex Addiction Real?

While the American Psychiatric Association debates whether to add sexual addiction to the next version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), Time magazine has published a lengthy article on the topic. It's an enlightening read for anybody interested in the subject.

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Buddist Monks Are Better Negotiators

Buddhist monks with no formal training in negotiation are better at separating logic from emotion during a heated negotiation, recent research suggests. According to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, Buddhist meditators performed better than a control group of non-meditators in accessing portions of the brain devoted to logic, while deactivating emotional circuits of the brain, when evaluating offers in a heated negotiation.

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Equally Wicked, But Different

Men and women are equal. Equal under the law, and equal in career opportunity. But men and women are not the same.
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Smiling Men Less Sexually Attractive to Women, Study Says

In a recent scientific study, women ranked photos of men smiling to be less attractive than photos in which the men were not smiling, or were brooding. The study helps explain the enduring appeal of "bad boys" to women, announced University of British Columbia in a press release.

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Cosmetic Endocrinology

Some of us remember when St. John's Wort was all the rage for depression treatment as a "natural" substance - until more recent research showed more dubious "results" for its effectiveness. Go to a Whole Foods and see the vast isles of colorfully decorated bottles of vitamin mixtures of all kinds, touting "new, improved" health. You'll find the men-specific part of the aisle is still about seven feet long compared to the rest of the warehouse that so appeals to women and their interest in "health."
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