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Family & Relationships
12:00 pm
Tue April 2, 2013

Lies Your Parents Told You

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Skeptical kid is skeptical.

Don’t run with scissors! If you keep making that face, it will get stuck like that. We had to take your dog to a ranch so it could have room to run.

Did you ever hear any of those lines from your parents? A recent study published in the Journal of Psychology found that 84 percent of parents in the US lie to their children.

Ross Reynolds gathered stories from listeners and local Jeopardy champion and author, Ken Jennings. 

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Online Communities
11:01 am
Mon March 11, 2013

The 'Nasty Effect': How Comments Color Comprehension

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Researchers found that exposure to uncivil comments can polarize opinion on news issues.

Originally published on Tue March 12, 2013 2:56 pm

At its best, the Web is a place for unlimited exchange of ideas. But Web-savvy news junkies have known for a long time that reader feedback can often turn nasty. Now a study in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication suggests that rude comments on articles can even change the way we interpret the news.

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Relationships
12:44 pm
Wed February 27, 2013

Missed Connections: A Second Chance At Love At First Sight

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Where was your close encounter with love at first sight?

Have you ever gotten an I Saw You or a missed connection? What happened? Did you connect? Psychology Today went through the missed connections on Craigslist, state by state, to see the most common places to be seen but not asked out. Here in Washington, the bus is the number one place to almost find love. In most of the other states it was Wal-Mart where cupid was most likely to draw back his bow. Ross Reynolds surveys the listeners about their thoughts on second chances at love at first sight.

Your Love Story
12:40 pm
Thu February 14, 2013

How Did You Meet Your Valentine?

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These two are inseparable.

How did you meet the person you are spending Valentine’s Day with? Did you meet in a grocery store? Were you both at the same movie alone? Maybe it was something more modern like Match.com? To commemorate Valentine's Day, Ross Reynolds talks with listeners about how they met.

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