Jan 15, 2015
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What It’s Like to Date Your Dad In the late '80s, the founder of a support group for adopted children who had recently reconnected with their biological relatives coined the term “Genetic Sexual Attraction” (GSA) to describe the intense romantic and sexual feelings that she observed occurring in many of these reunions. According to an article in The Guardian, experts estimate that these taboo feelings occur in about 50 percent of cases where estranged relatives are reunited as adults (GSA’s discoverer had herself become attracted to the son she’d adopted out when she met him 26 years later, but her feelings were not reciprocated).Read More »

 

Those Pretending-to-Be-Blind Activities May Backfire They seem to cause people to view blind people as less capable than they really are. People Who Work Long Hours Drink a Lot Cheers. Going From Extremely Lazy to Pretty Lazy Could Be Lifesaving In a European study, the biggest gap in mortality risk was between "inactive" and "moderately inactive" folks. Giving Toddlers Autonomy May Help Their Brains Develop Don't over-help! Feeling Cold Is a Contagious, Vicious Circle Seeing someone who looks like they're probably pretty cold makes your own body temperature drop.

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