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• Being in power does not always magnify personality
• Excessive worrying may have co-evolved with intelligence
• Nearly 30 percent of all college athlete injuries a result of 'overuse'
• Rebuffing racial insults: How culture shapes our behavior
• Multitasking: Not so bad for you after all?
• New test measures risk intelligence -- decision-making in risky situations
• To teach kids math, researcher devises ‘brain games’

Being in power does not always magnify personality Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:23 PM PDT "If you want to test a man's character, give him power," said Abraham Lincoln. It's a truism that power magnifies personality -- but is it true? A new study says no.

Excessive worrying may have co-evolved with intelligence Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:30 PM PDT Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to scientists who found that high intelligence and worry both correlate with brain activity measured by the depletion of the nutrient choline in the subcortical white matter of the brain. According to the researchers, this suggests that intelligence may have co-evolved with worry in humans.

Nearly 30 percent of all college athlete injuries a result of 'overuse' Posted: 12 Apr 2012 08:37 AM PDT Overuse injuries -- found most often in low-contact sports that involve long training sessions or where the same movement is repeated numerous times -- make up nearly 30 percent of all injuries sustained by collegiate athletes. And a majority of overuse injuries (62 percent) occurred in females athletes, according to a new study.

Rebuffing racial insults: How culture shapes our behavior Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:59 AM PDT The color of our skin or where we come does matter when it comes to how we react to a racist insult. A new study has found that African American women are more likely than Asian American women to directly rebuff racist comments, a difference that may reflect deeply rooted cultural differences, report researchers.

Multitasking: Not so bad for you after all? Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT Our obsession with multiple forms of media is not necessarily all bad news, according to a new study. Those who frequently use different types of media at the same time appear to be better at integrating information from multiple senses -- vision and hearing in this instance -- when asked to perform a specific task, new research shows.

New test measures risk intelligence -- decision-making in risky situations Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:54 AM PDT Tests exist for evaluating personality, intelligence and memory. However, up to now, it was not easily possible to find out how good someone is at making decisions in risky situations.

To teach kids math, researcher devises ‘brain games’ Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:52 AM PDT The world often breaks down into numbers and regular patterns that form predictable cycles. And the sooner children can inherently grasp these patterns, the more confident and comfortable they will be with the world of math. That's the discerning approach of experts who have spent decades teaching teachers and watching how students learn.

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