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PSYCHOLOGY
SAYS

STUDENTS W

FUN FACTS CAN

NOW BE ENJOYED!!

STUDENTS WHOSE LOOKS

ARE ABOVE AVERAGE GET
THE BEST GRADES
10 EASY ACTIVITIES SCIENCE
HAS PROVEN TO MAKE YOUR
DAY HAPPIER
What Caffeine Really Does to
Your Brain
8 Fascinating Facts About Anxiety
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Psychology Says

STUDENTS WHOSE LOOKS ARE ABOVE AVERAGE GET THE BEST GRADES
A new study finds

rated as more

This may be because

that students who are

attractive were also

being more attractive

rated as more

given higher grades

had a negative sideit

attractive get better

by their teachers.

was associated with

grades and are more

likely to go to college.

But students only

needed to be

This study cant

and general social

directly tell us why

distractions.

being attractive is

somewhat above

about 9,000 US

average to see the

Interestingly, being

adolescents from high

advantage. The super-

average in

school in the 1990s,

good-looking had no

appearance produced

through until they

advantage over those

no benefits in GPA

were in their 30s.

who were above

scores against those

average.

with below average

students who were

AFFECT GRADES?

more partying, dating

The study followed

They found that

WHY DO LOOKS

good for your grades,

but some have
suggested that it is
because teachers
give higher grades to
attractive students.

looks.

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10 EASY ACTIVITIES SCIENCE HAS PROVEN TO

MAKE YOUR DAY HAPPIER
1. Mentally

3. Spend money

6. Make

9. Practice

subtract

on someone

plans

your

something

else

signature

good from

7. ...with

4. Get some

friends

strengths.

exercise

8. List 3 good

10. A happy

5. Listen to

things that

music

happened

your life
2. Send a
thankful
message

daydream.

today

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Psychology Says

WHAT CAFFEINE REALLY DOES TO YOUR BRAIN

Some of its effects are

goats, but not necessarily

Surprise, surprise it

Researchers sometimes

strange and

about humans. Despite all

doesnt generally affect

give people placebos and

contradictory. In many

the fuss made about

their sleep that much!

tell them theyve had

ways caffeines effect on

caffeine and sleeping,

your mind is much more

theres little evidence

2.People blame caf

about what you expect

that its a problem.

feine for anything

have slept badly,

The research finds that

and everything

developed headaches and

than what it actually

does.

the vast majority of

Hopefully youll find at

people have worked out

least one or two things

how to use it. Its not that

here to surprise you

complicated: dont have a

1. Caffeine doesnt
stop most people
sleeping
The goatherd Kaldi may
have been right about his

double espresso at
midnight. Duh.

Its not just poor sleep,

because people think
caffeine is at least a bit
bad for them, they blame
all kinds of non-specific
problems on it:

Even then, there are

headaches, bad nights

studies where they give

sleep, feeling jittery, and

people caffeine secretly

so on.

caffeine. People
subsequently claim to

all the rest.

But it cant be due to
caffeine, because they
havent had any. So it
must be down to what
we expect caffeine to do
to us.

before they go to bed.

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3. Coffee plus nap?

Try it: have a coffee and

attention and vigilance.

clear. Sometimes

a nap of around 5-15

This is the kind of

caffeine improves them,

It might seem mad to

minutes and see you feel.

attention you need to

sometimes it makes them

have a cup of coffee and

Even people who dont

keep doing a relatively

worse and sometimes

then go for a nap. But if

normally nap can find this

routine task that is

theres no difference.

youre sleep deprived,

beneficial.

unchallenging. Thats

this may be the answer.

Studies have tried giving
tired people 200mg of
caffeine (a cup or two of
instant coffee), then
telling them to take a
nap.
The caffeine plus the nap
often has an additive
effect on performance. In
other words the caffeine
improves performance
above the nap on its own.

4. Boosts in
sustained attention
Most people feel more
alert after a coffee, but

why its often so good at

work: it keeps us
plodding on through
boring stuff that weve
got to get through.

are they any sharper

This finding is

when scientifically

particularly strong for

tested?

people who havent had

The answer is: in some

ways yes, but in many
ways not.
The strongest positive
finding is that caffeine
increases sustained

In general, though,
theres little evidence
that caffeine makes
much difference on tasks
that require pure thought.

enough sleep, which is

most of us nowadays.
When we stay away into
other psychological areas
like reaction times,
learning and memory,
things become much less
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Psychology Says

8 Fascinating Facts About Anxiety

Studies show that

The relaxed, laid-back

anxiety affects the sense

guys never made it.

5. Anxious

of smell and balance,

people jump to

how we judge faces and

conclusions

perceptions of our
personal space. Anxiety

1. Anxiety

6. Anxiety

may be an unpleasant

literally makes

emotion, which can be

everything stink

affects balance

2. Exercise

7. Meditation

crippling in excess, but it

does exist for a good
reason.
Anxiety tells us were in
danger and we need to do
something. It was our
anxious ancestors who
prepared better for winter
and made plans to fight

reduces anxiety

reduces anxiety

3. The parental

8. Anxiety

effect
4. Think different

expands
personal space

off neighbouring tribes.

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