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Searching In features, blog entries, column entries & news items, Under the topic Behavior
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The first long-term study of its kind finds that bipolar disorder identified in children often persists into young adulthood and involves frequent, intense swings between manic euphoria and depression.Published: Monday, October 6th, 2008Found in: Behavior and Humans
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The family-shattering effects of a mother’s depression can prompt the same mood disorder in her children, independent of any genetic risk. (p. 9)Published: October 11th, 2008; Vol.174 #8Found in: Behavior, Biology and Humans
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One-year olds can translate personal experience into knowledge about othersPublished: September 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #7Found in: Behavior and Humans
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A common gene variation in men is linked to marital crises and less bonding in a study of more than 500 long-term couples.Published: September 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #7Found in: Behavior and Genes & Cells -
Treatments shown to diminish psychological problems in traumatized youngsters often don’t get used, an exhaustive research review concludes.Published: September 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #7Found in: Behavior and Humans
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A measure of unconscious attitudes predicts the opinions that undecided people eventually reach on a controversial issue.Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2008Found in: Behavior and Humans
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Some magpies recognize themselves in mirrors, indicating that a basic form of self-recognition evolved in one family of birds.Published: September 13th, 2008; Vol.174 #6Found in: Behavior, Biology and Life -
In new studies, toddlers display dramatic advances in object recognition that may underlie verbal and symbolic achievements.Published: August 16th, 2008; Vol.174 #4Found in: Behavior and Humans
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Feeling happy may lessen children’s ability to perform tasks that require attention to detail, a new study suggests.Published: Friday, July 18th, 2008Found in: Behavior -
Scientists find the role of dopamine varies from one end of a brain region to another.Published: August 2nd, 2008; Vol.174 #3Found in: Behavior and Body & Brain
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For preschool boys, being outnumbered by girls at school could be worth the cooties.Published: Monday, July 7th, 2008Found in: Behavior
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Indian survivors of the devastating Asian tsunami employed spiritual and community coping strategies to regain emotional balancePublished: Friday, June 27th, 2008Found in: Behavior and Psychology
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Where you cast your ballot can affect how you cast your ballot.Published: Monday, June 23rd, 2008Found in: Behavior and Humans -
Boys who attend preschool classes with a majority of girls do better developmentally than other boys.Published: July 19th, 2008; Vol.174 #2Found in: Behavior, Humans and Psychology -
A new study shows that playful 2-year-old chimpanzees may be particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases — some caught from humans.Published: Friday, June 20th, 2008Found in: Behavior, Biology, Ecology and Zoology
