Winning the girl of your dreams may not necessarily call for the hottest cars or the most expensive coats, women want to laugh.
A society of British psychologists has established that women rate men who can make them laugh more intelligent than the average Joes.
Experts suggest that women through the course of history have looked for men who are intelligent and knowing how to read a situation and crack a joke at the right moment is a great achievement for a man.
The study was participated in by 45 heterosexual females between 18 and 30 years of age. They were asked to rate self descriptions of men which were designed to be funny and not so funny.
The proponents invented the lives of 10 men and the ladies were asked to rate them as per intelligence, honesty, and the potential of engaging in a long term relationship or friendship.
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Researchers from the United States point out to differences in the brain matter of people who may be at risk for depression. The study established that people who have high risk of developing depression have lesser right brain matter which can be compared to those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
People who had a positive history of depression showed thinning of their right cortex or the outer layer of the brain by as much as 28 per cent.
The study involved 131 individuals aged between 6 and 54 that either had or had not history of depression in the family. The study was designed to trace any specific abnormality in the brain which may indicate predisposition to depression rather than the effects of the mental condition on the brain.
The thinning of the right side of the cortex was seen in individuals that had family history of depression. Those who were actually depressed also demonstrated thinning of the left part of the brain.
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