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  1. Health & Medicine

    Genes of cholera germ deciphered

    The bacterium that causes cholera has nearly 4,000 genes on its two circular chromosomes.

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  2. Feedback matters for getting the joke

    Plausible information about how others react to jokes colors a college student's own perception of the humor value of the material.

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  3. In gauging beauty, congeniality counts

    People judge others who have positive personality traits by more lenient physical criteria for attractiveness than they do those about whom they have no personality information.

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  4. Older isn’t wiser in moral reasoning

    Researchers find more endorsement of immanent justice, the belief that the natural world punishes human misdeeds, among college students than sixth-graders.