Study Finds: Smoking During Pregnancy Linked to Criminality of Male Offspring

Friday, March 15, 2013
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Study Finds: Smoking During Pregnancy Linked to Criminality of Male Offspring

Maternal smoking during pregnancy predicts persistent criminality and acts of violent crimes rather than delinquency limited to adolescence, according to an article published in the AMA’s Archives of General Psychiatry. Researchers…

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Boys Overestimate Their School Skills, Girls Underestimate Theirs

Thursday, March 14, 2013
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Boys Overestimate Their School Skills, Girls Underestimate Theirs

Boys tend to overestimate their school performance compared to how their teachers rate them, but girls tend to underestimate their own performance, new research shows. The gap emerges around fourth grade…

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Study Finds: Office Stress, Large Family Responsibilities Put Women at Risk

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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Study Finds: Office Stress, Large Family Responsibilities Put Women at Risk

  The combination of high job stress and large family responsibilities spells significant and persistent increases in blood pressure for white-collar women who hold a university degree, a Canadian study shows.…

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Women’s Social Support Worth More Than Men’s

Monday, March 11, 2013
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Women’s Social Support Worth More Than Men’s

Social support from women appears to be more effective than support from men in reducing both men’s and women’s blood pressure under stress. But, scientists who ran the laboratory experiments that…

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Doing Housework: The “Ideal” Fair Share

Friday, March 8, 2013
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Doing Housework: The “Ideal” Fair Share

Researchers calculated that employed husbands and wives should each do less than half of the household chores (45.8 percent each to be precise) if they want to keep their personal distress…

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