Steve Rimmer

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This is the most downloaded/listened-to science podcast on #Spreaker. Thanks for your support!

This is the most downloaded/listened-to science podcast on #Spreaker. Thanks for your support!

This is the most downloaded/listened-to science podcast on #Spreaker. Thanks for your support!

This is the most downloaded/listened-to science podcast on #Spreaker. Thanks for your support!

This is the most downloaded/listened-to science podcast on #Spreaker. Thanks for your support!

A new study, to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, finds that people are more likely to conform to others' preferences than conform to others' actions. In other words, people want to like what others like, but they want to have or do what others don't have or don't do.

According to their paper published online in the Journal of Leisure Research, senior communities offer notable potential for helping people cope with the three primary sexual vulnerabilities that occur in later life: health issues and life circumstances that affect sexuality, difficulties communicating with health care providers about sex-related problems and limited access to sexual health information.

It is generally assumed that marriage has a positive influence on health and life expectancy. But does this "marriage bonus" also apply to the health indicator of body weight? Researchers at the University of Basel and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have investigated this question in cooperation with the market research institute GfK. Specifically, they compared the body mass index of married couples with that of singles in nine European countries. The results of their study have now been published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Partners who become romantically involved soon after meeting tend to be more similar in physical attractiveness than partners who get together after knowing each other for a while, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Children of parents who are frequently in conflict process emotion differently and may face more social challenges later in life compared with children from low conflict homes, according to the author of a new study published in the Journal of Family Psychology.

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This is the most downloaded/listened-to science podcast on #Spreaker. Thanks for your support!

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