A recent study has found that unhappy people watch much more television than happy people.

The research has found that  happy people socialize more, read more newspaper and have more sex but watch less television. Those who are unhappy watch up to 30 percent more televisions than happy people. The study has been done in University of Maryland discovered.

The study included 30000 people who were subjected to analysis of their social habits. The study has spanned between 1975 and 2006. The study has been recently reported inn Telegraph

TV may provide viewers with short-run pleasure, but at the expense of long-term malaise.

The researchers have also taken into account short term happiness. It might mean that  while TV in general is a waste of time and not particularly enjoyable, the shows I saw tonight were pretty good,” Robinson said in an interview.

Source: TOI

Boys without a history of unusual aggression had no such response, the study in Biological Psychology found.

The aggressive teenagers also reacted more strongly to pain that was accidentally caused.

The study groupo consisted of sixteen boys in age group of 16-18 years. Eight among them were with a “conduct disorder” and eight with no aggressive tendency.  The study also suggested that in some boys, natural empathetic impulses may be disrupted in ways that increase aggression.

The prevailing view is that these kids are e cold and unemotional in their aggression. But the  brain scans of teens with a history of aggressive bullying behaviour suggest that they may actually get pleasure out of seeing someone else in pain.

So instead of being insensitive they are hypersensitive.

The researchers found that in aggressive teens, areas of the brain linked with feeling rewarded-amygdala and ventral striatum became active when the observed pain being inflicted on others. But they showed little activity in self regulation the medial prefrontal cortex and the temporoparietal junction.

The reason may be the same as people preferring attractive mates good looks tend to signal overall biological fitness, said psychologist Joan Chiao of Northwestern University in Illinois.

“People have found that aspects of the face predict, for example, whether or not somebody is at height of their estrus cycle” and thus fertile, Chiao said in a telephone interview. “Aspects of male faces seem to predict levels of testosterone.”

In other words, humans find certain features attractive not because there is some “true” measure of beauty but because they signal success.

The study relied on 73 college students but the researchers said the findings fit in not only with conventional wisdom but with other research. Despite inroads made by the likes of New York senator Hillary Clinton and Republican vice presidential candidates and Alaska governor Sarah Palin, men continue to hold an advantage overall.

“All voters perceived male politicians as significantly more competent compared to female politicians,” Chiao and colleagues wrote in their report, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE. Chiao’s team showed photographs of candidates for Congress in 2006 to their volunteers and asked questions such as whether they would choose one over the other for president.

Everyone had to seem competent to get a vote. But while men needed to appear approachable to get an edge, women had to be good looking, the researchers found.

Studies have shown that this effect tends to go away when more women run for high office as has happened in India, for example, Chiao said.

“Voters may be able to learn to reduce their reliance on these cognitive short cuts,” she said.

Although Chiao’s team only used photographs to ask about the hypothetical voting situations, they found that their “election” mirrored the real 2006 results.

Looks fetch, women, attractive mates, face predict, good looking,

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Researchers in the US have found that fat women have more sex than those with normal weight as one’s body mass does not affect one’s sexual desire.

Ther findings are based  on an analysis of data on more than 7,000 women collected in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, that looked at the relationship between body mass index and sexual orientations, age of first intercourse, number of partners and frequency of intercourse.

Obese and overweight women do not differ significantly in some of the objective measures of sexual behaviour as compared to women of normal weight.

Data showed that overweight women were more likely to report having sexual intercourse with a man, even when researchers controlled for age race and type of residence.

Ninety-two percent of over weight women reported having a history of sexual intercourse with a man, as opposed to 87 percent of women with a normal body mass index (BMI), according to the survey.

This study indicates that all women deserve diligence in counseling on unintended pregnancy and STD prevention, regardless of BMI.

The survey relied on self reports, however, and other studies have found that people often lie in sex surveys. The result were detailed in the September issue of the journal Obestetrics and Gynecology.

A different study in 2006 concluded that obesity, as well as smoking, does curb sex.

Source: TOI

We have so many entertainment resources at our disposal. TV, radio, cinema, internet, books, movies, songs, concerts, shows and so on. But still we are more yearning and more bored when compared to people in thenpast ages when nothing of this sort was ther.

An intelligent and intelligent and above-average person can get bored easily. Does this imply that people are more intelligent these days?

You need to be sensitive to get bored.

Today, people live very luxurious lives. Even the mythical paradise has become out of date and context, as we have more comforts and more luxuries than ever before!

Gautama Buddha, inspite of all the comforts of life at his feet got fed up and left in search of truth, of self-actualisation, of permanent contentment.

However, we hope that, one day, everything will become all right and we will be content. So, we are bored but not fully because somewhere we feel that much more is possible in our lives.

We should observe this phenomenon of boredom more closely. It will make us understand that boredom is very human and it has a higher purpose if we allow that purpose to lead us to meditation and transform our lives.

Boredom comes with monotonyYou have done all those things earlier. There is monotony. Nothing has changed. Boredom indicates that you have become conscious of this.

If you escape from boredom, you would try diverting your mind in other directions. Alcohol, drugs, infidelity stems from this phenomenon of escapism..

Boredom is a part of human growth. We need constant simulations to keep ourselves occupied. That is why we keep looking for new goals, new cars, new houses, new friends, new clothes, new promotions because being content can make life dull and boring.

Boredom should be looked at positive way. Give yourself new tasks, new challenge every now and then. Do a new thing to spice up your life. Learn a new language, learn new instrument. Read few new books.

Use intertia of boredom to produce postive life energy.

Inspired by an article in TImes of India

Proactivity – Requires brain in gear
Reactivity – No brain-work involved

Proactivity – Time taken for consideration
Reactivity – Snap decisions

Proactivity – Will overcome obstacles
Reactivity – Bounces off obstacles

Proactivity – Worthwhile goal in sight
Reactivity – Drifts aimlessly

Proactivity – Priorities sorted out
Reactivity – Deals with stuff as it happens

Proactivity – Time used efficiently
Reactivity – Time wasted automatically

Proactivity – Determination holds good
Reactivity – Changes mind frequently

Proactivity – Discipline needed
Reactivity – Why be so hard on yourself?

Proactivity – Disappointments endured
Reactivity – Gives up if there’s any difficulty

Proactivity – Enjoys the doing
Reactivity – Craves immediate results

Proactivity – Will make a difference
Reactivity – Life becomes pointless

Proactivity – Counted as truly human
Reactivity – Behaves like an old primate

While working with one of nature’s only monogamous mammals, the prairie vole, as a model for human attachment, Larry Young from the Emory University School of Medicine in Georgia and Oliver Bosch from the University of Regensburg, Germany, examined the role of stress, which is plays a significant role in the grieving process.

In the study, the researchers paired 18 male voles with females and 20 males with males for five days, enough time for male and female to mate and form an enduring attachment to each other. They the separated half of each group from its partner and assessed their “mental state”.

They found that males that were separated from their female partner displayed behaviour reminiscent of depression and anxiety in humans. They spent more time floating rather than swimming when dunked in water and struggled for less time when held upside down by the fall, compared with those voles that had been separated from another male. In vole terms, this means that they showed less will to fight against stressful situations.

The bonded voles also had double the level of the stress hormone corticosterone in their blood, suggesting that CRF, the brain peptide that regulates the stress response, has a role to play in the grieving process. Young said that the effects seen in the study are very different from those of isolation.

Source: TOI

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Male baldness is the most common form of baldness, where hair is lost in a well-defined pattern beginning above both temples, and results in a distinctive M shaped hairline.

Estimates suggest more than 80 percent of cases are hereditary.

About a third of all men are affected by the ‘shiny pate syndrome’ by the of 45. Expenditures for hair transplantation in the US alone exceeded $115 million in 2007, while global revenues for medical therapy for male-pattern baldness recently surpassed $405 million.

This study was conducted by Vincent Mooser of Glaxo Smith Kline, Brent Richards of McGill University’s faculty of Medicine and Tim Spector of King’s College. Along with colleagues in Iceland, Switzerland and the Netherlands, researchers conducted a genome-wide association study of 1,125 Caucasian men who had been assessed for male pattern baldness.

They found two previously unknown genetic variants o chromosome 20 that substantially increased the risk of male pattern baldness. They then conformed these findings in an additional 1,650 caucasian men, according to a McGill University release.

But this does not mean a treatment or cure for male pattern baldness is imminent. “We have only identified a cause,” Richards said. “Treating male pattern baldness will require more research. But, of course, the first step in finding a way to treat most conditions it is to first identify the cause.”

But prediction would be better.

Early prediction before hair loss starts may lead to some interesting therapies that are more effective than treating late stage hair loss.

Source: TOI

So if you are young, social and enjoy partying every night, chances are that you would loose your job to some one who is a total abstainer of alcohol.

The survey questioned 375 CEOs in in the medium and large-scale private sector.Almost 55 per cent of the CEOs interviewed said they would choose teetotalers over people who drink. This applies to entry level as well as mid level recruitment.

Why?

Because CEOs have found that teetotalers are more productive, efficient and competent. They stick to deadlines and are good at time management.They are teetotalers are ambitious, highly productive and specific about their target.

There would be many voices for and against this observation. But the people who are in position to provide jobs are clearly stating- Stay away and get in.

Many companies have made a change in recruitment policies to this effect.

Who says your life styles do not affect your jobs?