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Psychology says people who always take the stairs even when the elevator is right there usually display these 8 traits

Taking the stairs instead of the elevator can feel like a small act of self-control. A 2006 analysis found a modest ...
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Psychology says grandparents who are rarely called aren’t being forgotten, they’re often the ones who spent decades teaching everyone around them that they’d be fi…

Interviews with 50 older adults by University of Pennsylvania researchers identified fear of being a burden as a theme in ...
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Die Hard’s novel hero was 60, the hostage was his daughter, and Sinatra had first refusal

Before Bruce Willis became John McClane, the hero of Die Hard’s source novel was Joe Leland, a retired detective in his 60s.
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Psychology says women who reach their 60s and stop explaining themselves aren’t becoming difficult, they’ve simply retired from a job nobody ever paid them for

Deciding when to explain a choice may leave more energy for emotionally meaningful relationships. Psychologist Laura ...
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Psycho’s shower blood was chocolate syrup, and the scene took 7 days for 45 seconds

The blood circling the drain was Bosco chocolate syrup, chosen for how it appeared in black and white. Alfred Hitchcock said ...
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Stephen King’s Red was a white Irishman, and one Shawshank line winks at the change

In Stephen King’s 1982 novella, Red is a white Irishman with graying red hair. Frank Darabont’s 1994 film casts Morgan ...
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The Golden Girls ate over 100 cheesecakes on screen, and Bea Arthur hated every bite

Chef George Geary estimated that the dessert appeared in more than 100 episodes of The Golden Girls. Yet Bea Arthur, whose ...
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In the Jaws novel, Hooper has an affair with Brody’s wife, and Spielberg cut it to save the shark hunt

Spielberg’s Jaws drops Hooper’s affair with Ellen Brody, one of several departures from Peter Benchley’s harsher novel. Spielberg reshaped characters he feared audiences would dislike, but another ...
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Psychology says people who make their bed every morning without thinking about it usually display these 7 traits

Charles Duhigg associated bed-making with other positive habits in The Power of Habit, but did not claim it causes them. No ...
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Psychology says the hardest part of retirement for men isn’t the lost paycheck, it’s losing the one room where someone needed an answer that only they had

Retirement can unsettle a man’s sense of purpose when leaving work also means leaving a familiar role. Researchers describe ...
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Psychology says people who cry at other people’s good news aren’t oversensitive, they’re wired for a form of empathy most adults quietly lost somewhere in their twe…

People differ in their tendency to cry at happy occasions, and that tendency is linked to empathy. Neither fixed neurological ...
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Ronald Reagan loved Back to the Future so much he quoted it to Congress

A joke about Ronald Reagan in Back to the Future apparently amused the president, though the tale of his reaction at a White ...