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You're worth sticking up for.
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Researchers think our adverse reactions to being lonely are nature's way of motivating us to find a social group in order to survive.
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Researcher found putting fruit flies on a time-restricted diet helped them become healthier; maybe it could do the same for humans.
Male war heroes are more likely to snag a date than their female counterparts. It seems warrior-women don't meet with our primate brain's idea of attractive, according to researchers.
True to form, Americans are vastly more optimistic than their counterparts in the developed world, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.
Even though some people tend to be right more often than others, we often treat the opinions of everyone equally.
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