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Men's Testosterone Drops When Their Candidate Loses
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe last time you watched your candidate lose an election, did it feel like you were losing the election yourself? Your body's biochemistry may have thought so. A study in science journal "PLoS One," from researchers at Duke University and the University of Michigan, showed that following the announcement of the 2008 election results, male supporters of John McCain and other candidates who lost experienced a dramatic drop in testosterone. In contrast, men who supported Barack Obama maintained relatively stable levels of testosterone after learning he had won. In addition to the lowered levels ...
Caster Semenya Is a Woman, Tests or No Tests
By Ria Misra - Politics Daily"She may be a hermaphrodite, but so what? She is still a girl." Those were the words of South African Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile, who last week demanded that the International Association of Athletics Federations apologize for violating runner Caster Semenya's privacy in the face of widespread, but unconfirmed, reports that the results of her gender test had been leaked to the media. In August, Semenya won the women's 800-meter gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. But upon her victory, the 18-year-old South African runner came under scrutiny by competitors, who ...
Babies Change Everything, Including Your Vote
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyDoes having kids change the way men and women vote? Researchers from North Carolina State University think so. A new study finds that after having children, men and women tend to move further apart on the political spectrum, with mothers becoming more liberal on social welfare issues and fathers becoming more conservative. Researchers found that after motherhood, women also became more liberal in their views toward the Iraq war. Thefinding was at odds with speculation in some media that mothers, fearful of terrorism, were hawkish on the war. "(It) is a very different understanding of the ...
Are Women (Just a Bit) More Tentative Talkers Than Men?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyI'm no expert, but does it seem to you that maybe women and men don't talk quite the same? Researchers at the University of California Davis think that when it comes to being a cautious conversationalist, it's not gender but the topic that's doing the talking. After launching a study into whether women are more tentative communicators than men, researchers concluded that both women and men become hesitant when giving instructions to the opposite sex about topics that are stereotypically not associated with their gender (among the examples head researcher Nicholas Palomares cites are changing ...
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