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Now hear this, those of you who believe the media pushes " fake news " (probably no one, if you're reading me!). But a new study says those who rely on 'gut' feelings, or trust their intuition,  tend to think  that the facts they hear are politically biased, and therefore, are likely to stand behind inaccurate beliefs, according to newswise.com.  And those who rely on concrete evidence to form their beliefs are less likely to have misperceptions about high-profile scientific and political issues, says  Kelly Garrett , the lead researcher and a professor of communication at The Ohio State University.  “Scientific and political misperceptions are dangerously common in the U.S. today. The willingness of large minorities of Americans to embrace falsehoods and conspiracy theories poses a threat to society’s ability to make well-informed decisions about pressing matters,” Garrett notes. “A lot of attention is paid to our political motivations, and while politi...

I saw him across a crowded room and I thought, he's cute.  So I smiled at him and I guess the rest is history, because we've been married for 20 years (and together for 30). A new study is making a compelling case for knowing instinctively, immediately, whether you're headed for wedded bliss, or a marriage on the rocks. Though many are not aware of it, according to newswise.com, ". . .people’s automatic evaluations of their partners predict one of the most important outcomes of their lives — the trajectory of their marital satisfaction,” researchers wrote in a paper published in the Nov. 29 issue of the journal Science . The study found that "people’s conscious attitudes, or how they said they felt, did not always reflect their gut-level or automatic feelings about their marriage."  More important -- at least to me -- was the second finding. "It was the gut-level feelings, not their conscious ones, that actually predicted how happy they remained o...