I cant believe people study this random crap...and get paid for it....

How a hard chair creates a hard heart:

A bunch of yale-led psychologists did a study to show that our sense of touch affects how we view the world. They interviewed job applicants- those who were holding heavier clipboards to fill out their application, took their job more serious than their counterparts. In a different study, they found that if people were sitting on hard, cushionless chairs were less likely to compromise in price negotiations than those who were sitting on soft comfortable chairs.

In a different study, L. Williams found that in an encounter, people judged others to be more generious IF they were having a warm cup of coffee, as oppose to a cold drink.

A. Bargh explains that infants first develop physical contacts such as roughness, hardness and warmth. He argues that this is critical in how they view "abstract concepts" about people and relationships (ex. detecting a warm smile).

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I am obsessed with reading random science related news ! I came across this today:

Gay men's bilateral brains better at remembering faces: York U study

According to this study, gay men, like females, use both sides of their brains and thus are able to recall familiar faces better than heterosexual men (who use their right hemisphere for recalling familiar faces).

Yay York University for actually publishing an article ! lol

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And now for pure randomness:

So researchers at some university (BGU) developed a geeky software program that is capable of detecting depression in bloggers !! Oh yes my dear friends... I can NOT wait... until this program "reads" my blog. lol

Professor Yair Neuman claims that the software has been designed to find "hidden content" that is indicative of depression.

Here is an example: the program picks up words that express emotions ( could even be colour) so in the article they used the colour black. The program then combines the word "black" with other terms that describes symptoms of depression (so first it picks up emotions, then symptoms) such as "sleep deprivation" or "loneliness" - This will then be recognized as a "depressive" text.

People get paid to do this... wow...