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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 ...

  This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone but women are less likely to receive pay for internships than men. According to newswise.com, t he odds of women receiving pay for a college internship are 34% lower than for men, claims new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York. "A team of researchers led by Binghamton University Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration John Zilvinskis sought to find out whether women and other under-served groups were more or less likely to participate in paid or unpaid internships in college compared with their peers," newswise says. This issue was examined because paid internships often lead to higher paying positions post-graduation and that women continue to earn less than men for the same position despite their level of education. Of the 2,410 seniors who participated in internships, 58% of men received pay during their internships, whereas only 35% of women received pay.  “This finding ali...

Opinion: Appreciating small gestures in dark times By Deborah DiSesa Hirsch   Updated  8:03 am EDT, Sunday, June 14, 2020             Photo: Frances Thiel / Houston Chronicle Illustration for business story, 02/22/2007: good deeds, kindness at the office This is my coronavirus story. On a recent Friday night, my son and his best friend were sitting in a car talking when a policeman pulled up. I can understand. They were sitting in the car at Newfield Elementary School just shooting the breeze and it was probably not a good place to be. He asked what they were doing and they told him, just catching up. He asked for licenses and they turned them over. He searched the car and the trunk and finding nothing, he returned the friend’s license and they drove off. It was only when my son got home that he realized he didn’t have his license. For more, go to  https://www.stamfordad...

I admit it.  I was a toilet paper hoarder . (Read this if you want to know just how much: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Opinion-Coronavirus-draws-out-my-inner-hoarder-15156319.php ) In any event, a new study says that personality traits can be linked to personality traits . According to newswise.com, " People who feel more threatened by COVID-19 and rank highly on scales of emotionality and c onscientiousness were most likely to stockpile toilet paper in March 2020, says a new study published by Lisa Garbe (University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland), Richard Rau (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany), and Theo Toppe (the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)." Following the fast spread of COVID-19 across Europe and North America in March 2020, many people began stockpiling commodities including toilet paper. Some companies reported an increase of up to 700% in toiled paper sales, despite calls from the govern...

It's not brain surgery.  But if you want to succeed at everything you do?  Listen up. We've heard it all.  Meditate.  Live in the moment.  Get enough sleep.  Accomplish the goals you -- and your boss-- set out for yourself.   Maybe even over-perform. But what if there were a mindset you could develop that would allow you to succeed forever? Well, now, a new study reports that we also need one additional "important psychological tool, a  “strategic mindset” , according to newswise.com. The study found that those who ask, "How else can I do this?" or "Is there a better way to do this," rather than just doing what they've always done to achieve success make out far better. But it's not just work that these kinds of people use this mindset for.  Stanford University psychologists report that this research shows that, as a result, people with this mindset "tend to apply more effective strategies when working towards their goals i...