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We knew this all along but we'll let you in on the secret.  A majority of Americans think women are just as competent as men , if not more so, according to the Los Angeles Times. Among the 25% of respondents who did perceive a gender difference in smart, most said that women were more intelligent and competent than men, the LA Times reported. This all came out of a scientific study published Thursday in the journal American Psychologist that examines Americans’ perceptions of women over the past 70 years. “It’s a pretty dramatic shift,” says  Alice Eagly , a social psychologist at Northwestern University in Illinois who led the work, at the site. “If you think women are still seen as less capable than men, then forget it. That is not the case.” Where did it ever come from, this idea that women can't do the same work as men? Pretty simple.  It all comes down to three things. "Eagly and her co-authors analyzed 16 public opinion polls spanning from 1946 to 2018...

Guess what?  Checking your cell is like snorting crack cocaine. Ok, maybe not quite that similar but a new study shows that information , to our brains, releases  dopamine  just like money or food. Or drugs. According to newswise.com, a  new study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has found that information acts on the brain's dopamine-producing reward system in the same way as money or food. “To the brain, information is its own reward, above and beyond whether it's useful,” says Assoc. Prof.   Ming Hsu , a neuroeconomist whose research employs functional magnetic imaging (fMRI), psychological theory, economic modeling, and machine learning, at the web site. "And just as our brains like empty calories from junk food, they can overvalue information that makes us feel good but may not be useful—what some may call idle curiosity." Hsu found that the research  demonstrates that the brain converts information into the same "common ...

We've all been there.  "I'd love to but I have a previous engagement."  "I'd like to go on a blind date with your brother but my next 10 weekends aren't free."  "I'd like to try your lasagna but I'm allergic to cheese." That's what they say about mine! We're talking about  excuses , of course. "We've all done it, offered an excuse for our poor behavior or rude reactions to others in the heat of the moment, after a long commute or a tough day with the kids," newswise.com reports. "Excuses are commonplace, an attempt to explain and justify behaviours we aren't proud of, to escape the consequences of our acts and make our undesirable behavior more socially acceptable. What do most excuses have in common? According to the web site, a researcher from Cambridge University has suggested that the answers lie in what they all tell us about our underlying motivation . "When excuses are permissible,...