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> 3/17/2008 7:48:57 AM

Negative Outlook Increases Risk of Death in Heart Patients - Researchers from Duke University gave a psychological questionnaire to 2,800 coronary disease patients and found that those with positive outlooks lived longer than those with more negative feelings.

Study: Work Bullying Worse Than Sexual Harassment - A meta-analysis of over 100 studies on workplace harassment and aggression found that bullying behaviors may be more psychologically damaging than sexual harassment, which often receives greater attention.

When Girls Will Be Boys - A well crafted story in this week's New York Times magazine explores the struggles and issues that arise when a young woman transitions to being a man while attending a women's college.

Keep Tabs on Kids to Prevent College Drinking - Less drinking before college correlates to less drinking during a student's first year, according to work done by a team from the University of Maryland.

Cowardly Robot Steals Show at Human-Robot Interaction Conference in Netherlands - A robot designed to exhibit fear and learn from the psychological idea of graded exposure won an audience award at a technological conference in Amsterdam last week.

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