social experiments

Doing this makes you more likely to succeed at a fitness goal

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Doing this makes you more likely to succeed at a fitness goal

Better together? A supportive friend may pave the way when it comes to achieving a goal, suggests recent research. Those who paired their workouts with a pal were more likely to show up and pump up than those who chose to go solo, according to researchers at Berkley University who studied gym attendance. The experiment, … Read more

Here’s what people lie most often about — and how it ruins mental health

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Here’s what people lie most often about — and how it ruins mental health

In fraud we trust. People tend to lie to make themselves feel better or to spare themselves shame or rejection — instead of to protect someone else’s feelings, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Twente in The Netherlands ran four experiments to determine if liars experience psychological consequences such as lower … Read more