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• Body-image studies explore the source of much of our anxiety

  27-03-2016 23:41 via latimes.com
  
  People who are more anxious about their appearance will become more anxious overall and are more likely to develop depression.
  
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• Open wide: why yawning reveals much about your level of empathy

  27-03-2016 08:00
  
  When you see someone yawn and stretch, what do you feel like doing? The answer may surprise youHere’s a simple personality test to try on whoever is sitting opposite you as you read this column. When you’re fairly sure that he or she is looking at you – but without checking too obviously – yawn. Does the other person follow suit?If they do, it suggests that your companion is a fairly empathic person (or at least has a fair amount of empathy for you). A growing body of evi
  
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• The life lesson of a speeding train

  27-03-2016 07:00
  
  Thinking big when it comes to tasks and ambitions will release unknown creativityIn the 1950s, in the wake of the Second World War, Japan was intensely focused on growing its economy. Every day, tens of thousands of people travelled by train between Tokyo and Osaka. Vast amounts of raw industrial materials were transported on those rail lines. But the Japanese topography was so mountainous and the railway system so outdated that the 320-mile trip could take as long as 20 hours. So in 1955 the he
  
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