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'No Shit' Studies
Rugrats Are Not Always The Route To Instant Happiness
If you follow the cacophony of smug celebrity mommas, you might think that having children is the key to satisfaction. But a new study shows that parents might be less happy than their childless counterparts. Florida State sociology professor Robin Simon tells Newsweek, "Parents experience lower levels of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers." Simon believes that the upswell of negativity in parents is due to two major factors. More » -
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The Single Shall Inherit The Earth
Despite the prevailing stereotype that women live in a candy-colored fantasy world with unrealistic relationship expectations, a new book by "playboy" Carl Weisman says that over 30% of confirmed bachelors avoid marriage because they "won't settle for anything less than perfection," reports Reuters. Weisman's book, So Why Have You Never Been Married?: 10 Insights Into Why He Hasn't Wed, includes a survey of 1,533 heterosexual men discussing why they've never tied the knot. They not only fear marrying the wrong person, they also fear losing their money in a messy split. Of course, the implication is that these men remain bachelors by choice, and not by circumstance, enjoying the swinging single life as long as their graying bodies hold out. Often the stereotype of single women is that they are desperate to wed, though according to the Telegraph, that Bridget Jones-ian preconception might be shifting, at least across the pond. More » -
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Depressed Dudes More Likely To Drown Sorrows In Drink
Women! We loooove talking about our feelings when we're sad, according to a new study out of the Yale School of Medicine. But men, on the other hand, are more likely to avoid expressing their anxiety and instead just bury it with beer. Yale researchers exposed 54 "social drinkers" (27 men, 27 women) to three fake scrips categorized as "stressful, alcohol-related, and neutral/relaxing," respectively. Then the subjects' feelings, behaviors, cardiovascular arousal and self-reported alcohol cravings were measured. According to study author Tara M. Chaplin, "After listening to the stressful story, women reported more sadness and anxiety than men, as well as greater behavioral arousal. But, for the men ... emotional arousal was linked to increases in alcohol craving. In other words, when men are upset, they are more likely to want alcohol." More » -
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British Educators Wonder Why More Girls Don't Play Guitar
Most rock bands these days consist of several near-emaciated, floppy haired boys who wear very tight pants and play their guitars slung low near their penises. Delightful girl group Smoosh (pictured here), notwithstanding, where are all the rocking lady guitarists? Maybe there's a dearth of female guitar players because, as a new report from the UK shows, girls from a very young age are discouraged from playing traditionally "masculine" instruments like guitar and horns, while boys are discouraged from playing traditionally "feminine" instruments like the flute and harp. According to the BBC, the report, published by the British Institute of Education, says, "The size of the instrument (bigger, male), its pitch (higher, female) and the physical characteristics needed to play it could be partly responsible [for the gender preferences]. Another factor may be that brass instruments and drums have long been used militarily and therefore are associated with war." More » -
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An Unhappy Marriage Is Bad For Your Blood
Hating your husband can cause your blood pressure to skyrocket, according to a new study from Brigham Young University's psychology department. Researchers had 204 married folks and 99 single people wear portable monitors that tracked the subjects' blood pressure at 72 different points throughout the day. They also had the marrieds rate their level of "marital satisfaction" in a survey. CBS News reports that the people with the best blood pressure were those who are happily married. Single people had the next best blood pressure, while the miserable marrieds had by far the worst blood pressure of all. (Wonder how many of the subjects were Mormon?) More » -
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Researchers Find No Link Between Repressive Personalities And Breast Cancer
It seems fairly obvious to any sane person that innate personality traits are not a harbinger of malignant mammaries, but, apparently in 1996, researchers in the Netherlands thought otherwise — thinking they had discovered a link between "stoicism" in women and breast cancer. Not surprisingly, 12 years later, those same researchers are singing a different tune: after studying the same group of 9,700 women for another ten years, the scientists, led by Eveline Bleiker, Ph.D., found no link between anti-emotionality and breast cancer. (Scientists also discovered that there is no link between owning a blender and getting breast cancer.) In all seriousness, however, cancer researchers are also working to knock down more prevalent myths, explains Reuters, namely, the urban legends that underwire bras and antiperspirants increase breast cancer risk. So rock your underwires, sweet-smelling deodorants, and your bad attitudes, ladies; you're not (necessarily) gonna die!
Personality Can't Predict Breast Cancer [MSNBC]
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Study Shows Sex Ed Works For (Some) Teens
New evidence suggests that teenage boys who receive sex education are three times more likely to use condoms when they lose their virginity. And that's not the only good news: The same study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, showed that all teens who receive some kind of sex education will delay sex until at least age fifteen. The CDC did not differentiate what kid of sex education was taught — it treated abstinence-focused education the same way it studied more progressive forms of sex ed — though research released earlier this year showed that abstinence only programs don't really work. (Interestingly, the only form of sex ed required in Jamie Lynn Spears' home state of Louisiana is abstinence only; Jessica Sierra's home state of Florida also requires abstinence only education but does not impose either sex ed or contraceptive practices on its students.)
Sex Education Works, Study Shows [CBS News]
Syphilis infections on the rise in Europe [MSNBC]
Sex Education Requirements, State by State [Institute for Youth Development]
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Teenage Sex Drive Trumps Abstinence Education
Note to all those daughters donning chastity rings: according to a new study done by a non-partisan group, abstinence education doesn't work. "At present there does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex, hastens the return to abstinence or reduces the number of sexual partners," says the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. What does work? Educational programs that include discussion of contraception and condom use. These programs even manage to delay the initiation of sex and the number of sexual partners more than abstinence-only programs do. In 2002, abstinence-only programs received $144 million dollars in federal funding.
Report: Abstinence Programs Don't Work [ABC News]
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