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Common pain relievers . They're what we use for headaches, cramps , muscle pulls .  But what if they can also cause us danger?  A new report says using them can alter our perception of risk , according to newswise.com. While  acetaminoph en  is helping you deal with your headache, it may also be making you more willing to take risks, a new study suggests.  "People who took acetaminophen rated activities like 'bungee jumping off a tall bridge' and 'speaking your mind about an unpopular issue in a meeting at work' as less risky than people who took a placebo, researchers found," newswise explains.  The website adds that use of the drug also led people to take more risks in an experiment where they could earn rewards by inflating a virtual balloon on a computer: Sometimes they went too far and the balloon popped.  “Acetaminophen seems to make people feel less negative emotion when they consider risky activities – they just don’t feel as scared,” newswis...

  It's kind of hard to believe right now but a new study has found that humans are, well, optimistic , for most of life, a ccording to newswise.com. Logically you would think the happiest time of your life would be when you're young, and everything lies ahead of you.  But that's a time of discomfort and anxiety and sometimes panic as you find your way. Then it was said that the elderly are the happiest because, even though they're at the end of their lives, they're not fighting and competing like they did when they were younger.  They pretty much let everything go. Researchers from Michigan State University led the largest study of its kind to determine how optimistic people are in life and when, as well as how major life events affect how optimistic they are about the future, the website reports. But, “We found that optimism continued to increase throughout young adulthood, seemed to steadily plateau and then decline into older adulthood,” newswise quotes William C...

  As if we didn't have enough to worry about, now experts are saying that job candidates who interview virtually are less likely to get the job. Thanks so much.  In a time when face-to-face interaction is discouraged, this is very, well, discouraging. "New research provides some of the first solid evidence that people who watch a virtual job interview rate the candidate substantially lower than those who watch the same interview in person," newswise.com reports. According to  CNBC , the COVID-19 pandemic has caused as many as 8 out of 10 recruiters to turn to videoconferencing to screen and interview job candidates. This conveys a shift in hiring practices that may continue long after the pandemic’s impact wears off. "With this trend, employers and job applicants may wonder how interviews conducted through Zoom, or other video-mediated communication (VMC) platforms, hold up when compared to face-to-face sessions," newswise quotes Dr. Denise Baker, who worked ...