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Are you quick to boast about your successes at work to a new person you're dating? Point out that you were voted "best-looking" in high school?  That you drive an Audi RS 5 Cabriolet? If you do, you're doomed.  Or so says a new study .   Newswise.com reports that r esearchers have discovered that prospective dating partners who were more humble were viewed as more attractive candidates for a romantic relationship than those less humble. In long-distance relationships, partners who are viewed as humble tended to recover more quickly after offenses than their less humble counterparts. "Researchers at Hope College, Georgia State University and the University of North Texas asked respondents to look over a fake dating profiles and rate them on a seven point scale on likability, friendliness, number of friends, fun, attraction, likelihood of going on a date and potential satisfaction with dating," the Web site says. In one study, respondents were asked to t...

You've heard the expression, every cloud has a silver lining?  Well, how about every silver lining has a cloud? A new study has found that the very same hormone that helps us love also helps us lie. Say what?   Oxytocin - the "love" hormone produced by the body to encourage bonding - may also help us to lie -- but here's the silver lining.  To the benefit of our group. Oxytocin -- which has sometimes been confused (at least by me) for oxycodone, a way to curb pain (and get high) --   has been demonstrated in research as "promoting bonding in couples and between mothers and babies, and is also thought to drive people's impulse to be sociable," according to medicalnewtoday.com. The more oxytocin a person has, the more empathy and trust they will have, as well as lower social  anxiety  and fear response. Oxytocin can also stimulate aggression, if it is required for reasons of defense, medicalnewstoday reports. Oxytocin can also keep men monoga...