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Author Archives: Piret Pappel
Religious People More Prone to Depression?
What is the connection between a person’s worldview and the risk of becoming depressed? An international study shed some light on the links between religiousness, spirituality, and depression. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Research, Social sciences
Tagged depression, mental health, religion, religiousness, spirituality, worldview
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Silent and Slow Estonians, Emotional and Fast Russians
What happens when an Estonian and a Russian meet? See the outcomes of a new study about ethnic stereotypes and communication patterns. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Research, Social sciences
Tagged communication stereotypes, Estonia, Estonians, ethnic stereotypes, ideal communicator, neighboring nation, Russia, Russians
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Living on the Edge: Landlocked Seals in a Changing Climate
Even when there’s enough food, continuously warmer winters may make the ringed seal extinct. Such is the gloomy conclusion made by Mart Jüssi, a seal biologist at the University of Tartu, in his freshly defended doctoral thesis. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, climate change, ecology, ice, land-locked grey seal, PhD, PhD thesis, ringed seal, seal
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What Do Women Appreciate in Men?
Men’s slender body is even more enticing to women than an alpha-male face, according to a study published in the Royal Society B journal and co-authored by Indrikis Krams, a visiting professor at the University of Tartu. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged attractiveness, body weight, immune system, macho, masculine, men, sex hormone, testosterone, women
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Need for Sleep Is Inherited
A major international study figured out that individuals with a certain variant of the ABCC9 gene had half an hour more sleep on average than those with another variant, and one European in five has this bit of DNA. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research
Tagged Estonian Genome Project, gene variant, genetics, heredity, need for sleep, sleep, study
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Estonian and Indian Milk Lovers Share a Common Ancestor
Researchers have found that the Estonians and Indians who can digest lactose share a common ancestor that walked the Earth about 7500 years ago. The study was published in the “Molecular Biology and Evolution” journal. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Estonians, gene mutation, India, Indians, lactose, lactose tolerance, milk, mutation 13910T
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