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If you're planning to buy your Valentine the standard $5 box of no-name chocolates this year, you may get more than you bargained for. In a consumer behavior study on chocolate, University of Utah marketing professors found that the ostensibly innocuous candy is emotionally charged and capable of eliciting feelings of guilt and uncontrolled desire, causing some women to hoard, hide or even steal chocolate from others and some men to actively police the consumption of their feminine companions.

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Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.

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A University of Utah professor and two colleagues are challenging the traditional notion that predecessors of the modern horse fed almost exclusively on grasses. Their findings may hold clues to eventually discovering what caused a major extinction in North America.

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Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.

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Researchers at the University of Utah have shown polymers to be a powerful weapon in combating cancer's resistance to chemotherapy treatments

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Adult day care centers that treat clients like children -- and provide little autonomy or privacy -- are more likely to have clients who are withdrawn from their peers than those centers that have a more age-appropriate setting and activities, according to researchers at the University of Utah.

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Yoga and meditation techniques could be valuable tools in helping teenage sex offenders reduce or control their deviant impulses, according to new research at the University of Utah.

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University of Utah chemists have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer using a "Trojan Horse" to deliver drugs.

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The odds that children whose parents suffered divorce will end their own marriages declined by almost 50 percent between the years 1973 and 1996, according to research from the University of Utah published in the August issue of Demography.

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University of Utah physicists have shown that "plastic" light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made of electrically conducting polymers can produce more light and less heat than thought. (Nature 1-25-01)