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New Oregon State University Study: What Happens In Your Bedroom Lingers On The Job

Want to increase your job satisfaction? More sex may help, according to a new research report. A study team headed by Dr. Keith Leavitt, an associate professor at Oregon State University’s College of Business, analyzed brief daily diaries kept by 159 married men and women, including government employees, over a two-week period. They found that...
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Does Tasing Cause “Mental Impairment” With Legal Ramifications?

When a suspect tried to rabbit on foot from a drug interdiction stop in Louisiana and then refused to follow commands after officers caught him, he was zapped with a TASER three times before being successfully handcuffed–once via a probe to the arm and twice in drive-stun mode to the leg, for a total of...
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When You Don’t See What’s Visible: The Inattentional Blindness Factor & More

Experiments mirroring a real-world case that resulted in an officer going to prison for perjury have confirmed that a trick of the mind called inattentional blindness—the failure to see something important that is clearly within your field of view—can occur under stressful circumstances on the street. The officer’s conviction was described in detail in a...
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First Study Of Taser Use Against Minors: No Significant Harm

Juveniles are one of the population groups thought by some observers to be “potentially vulnerable” to unexpected significant injury from being Tasered. But the first study of real-world use of conducted electrical weapons on minors concludes that zaps from CEWs “during apprehension of adolescents does not seem to pose unacceptable levels of risk.” None of...
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10 Psychological Keys To Keeping Your Exercise Commitment…Or Building Any Other New Habits

Can writing a check to an activist organization you dislike help you get more exercise? Dr. Michael Asken, a psychologist with the Pennsylvania State Police, thinks so. That ploy is included among “effective strategies” he suggests for “increasing your chances of sticking to an exercise regimen.” Research has shown that that isn’t easy. “Many people...
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Work Stress & You: A Dire Picture With Rays Of Hope

You know it in your heart, so to speak. Scientists have confirmed it. Now they’re confirming it again: Job stress of the kind you may experience in police work can play hell with your cardiovascular health. But there may be a way for you to beat the odds. British researchers who tracked more than 10,300...
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