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A team of researchers led by Galen Bodenhausen, a professor of psychology and marketing at Northwestern University, has published the results of a new study about materialism and happiness in the journal Psychological Science. When participants were labeled as “consumers,” they were more likely to selfishly focus on their own individual consumption. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology 
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Testosterone makes us overvalue our own opinions at the expense of cooperation, research from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London has found. Via BrainHealth
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We humans can be a cocky species - so much so that a realistic self-image can be seen as a symptom of trouble. We naturally tend to puff ourselves up and kid ourselves, says Rutgers University evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers. That's because evolution has shaped many organisms into natural-born liars. In his new book, "The Folly of Fools, Trivers lays out a case that we humans are such good liars we even lie to ourselves.
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A new study finds that countries with more income inequality tend to have more people who believe that they are better than average — a psychological phenomenon known as “self-enhancement.”
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The personality trait narcissism may have an especially negative effect on the health of men, according to a recent study published in PLoS ONE.
Savannah Powell's curator insight,
March 25, 2014 2:32 AM
I was very surprised that only highly narcissistic males (as opposed to females) experienced the dramatic rise in cortisol. I wasn't surprised that they had a higher level of cortisol since many are very stressed and may run to anger, but I found it interesting that this wasn't happening in the extremely narcissistic females.
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Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön and the University of Cologne have discovered that people select future social partners on the basis of their cooperative behaviour and not according to whether they punish the egoism of others.
This finding is surprising as it shows that people identify particularly altruistic partners in this way and could benefit from their behaviour. Consequently, people conceal uncooperative behaviour.
However, it remains a mystery as to why people would like to conceal occasions when they punish others for their self-interest, despite the fact that they have no sanctions to fear.
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