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So you've lost everything in the coronavirus meltdown. But be comforted.  People with money tend to be more lonely than the rest of us.  That's because people who base their self-worth on their financial success  o ften feel that way in everyday life, a newly published study by the University at Buffalo and Harvard Business School, newswise.com reports. “When people base their self-worth on financial success, they experience feelings of pressure and a lack of autonomy, which are associated with negative social outcomes,” the web site quotes says Lora Park, an associate professor of psychology at UB and one of the paper’s co-authors. “Feeling that pressure to achieve financial goals means we’re putting ourselves to work at the cost of spending time with loved ones, and it’s that lack of time spent with people close to us that’s associated with feeling lonely and disconnected,” adds Deborah Ward, a UB graduate student and adjunct faculty member at the UB’s psycho...

Can there ever be too many men ?   Some think more men, more problems.  But now a new study says that may not be true. The study focused on the fact that, since men are more prone to competitive risk-taking and violent behavior, what happens when the number of men is greater than the number of women in a population?    According to research by Florida State University Professor of Psychology Jon Maner, the answers might not be what you expect, says newswise.com.   “ When men outnumber women in a given ecology, intuition might suggest that rates of violent crime would skyrocket, marriages would destabilize and many children would be born out of wedlock, ” the web site quotes him .  “ Intriguingly, the opposite has been observed. ”   Although ecological sex ratios have been investigated extensively in nonhuman  species,  they  play a crucial role in humans as well. Many factors can produce sex ratio imbalances, includ...

This may sound very strange.  But I'm enjoying this lockdown.  My husband, who's never home, is home from work (though, as a dentist, he's still called in for emergencies -- in QUEENS!), and our son is home from college, where he had a roommate who allegedly did  illegal things and then brought a dog into the room, because he had "anxiety" (stop dealing!). But I'm enjoying the shutdown from chores and running to help out at my church's homework club (though I miss the kids) and trying to make reservations for Family Weekend at Stony Brook before they all sell out, and all the other trivial but necessary things that make up my day. Oh, and I'm practicing gratefulness, too. I've been writing a lot more, and running, increasing my miles.  It's one of the few things that makes me feel really good in this time where restaurants and department stores and churches are closed, and we have to think all the time if we're at risk for getting this ...

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We see a lot of men strutting around, puffing out chests, sometimes big muscles, he-men, acting like nothing can get them down. I'm not just talking about the White House.  But a new study has found that toxic masculinity is unsafe -- even for men . What are we talking about?  According to newswise.com, it can harm the men feeling it just as much as the women they are around. “Often, toxic masculinity is a term that we use to describe how masculinity affects other people, especially women,” newswise quotes study co-author  Stef Shuster, MSU,assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Sociology at  Michigan State University   . “But our study shows how toxic masculinity also has detrimental consequences for the men who subscribe to these ideals. The very premise of hegemonic  (rulin g or  dominant in a political or social context)  masculinity in some ways is based on the idea of isolation because it’s about being auton...

Quick.  How many tabs do you have open right now? "From texting throughout a meeting to scrolling Twitter while on a phone call, the art of multitasking now occupies not just part of our day, but practically every minute," says newswise.com. "And despite our insistence that doing more than one activity at a time is more efficient,  research  reveals that trying to do so much at once costs us, not surprisingly, in accuracy—but also in  time ." In fact, studies show that multitasking in the classroom diminishes academic performance, and in the workplace it results in $450 billion in lost productivity worldwide each year, the web site reports. On the safety front, lawmakers have taken steps: 48 states had  banned  texting while driving by 2019, and 20 states had prohibited drivers from using hand-held cell phones. "Despite these efforts, the art of techno-juggling appears to be here to stay, raising the question: is there a way we can get better at it...

I'm guilty of this.   I drive a flashy red car and I'm pretty intolerant of other drivers (but I do stop for  pedestrians ).  A new study says there are a lot of people like me.  And the more expensive the car?  The less likely you are to have manners when driving. And that's probably why our roads are so unsafe today. Flashing crosswalk lights are no match for flashy cars, according to a new UNLV study which found that drivers of expensive cars are least likely to stop for crossing pedestrians, newswise.com reports. "Drivers on a whole aren’t all that great at stopping for pedestrians waiting at crosswalks: Of 461 cars that researchers examined, only 28 percent yielded," the web site explains. But the cost of the car was a significant predictor of driver yielding, with the odds that they’ll stop decreasing by 3 percent per $1,000 increase in the car’s value. Researchers estimated the cost of each car using pricing categories from Kelley Blue Book. ...