Nasa wants to gather more medical and psychological data on the effects of long periods spent in space as it prepares for such missions.

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November's numbers will have a stronger psychological effect because of a slew of upbeat data including strong job growth of 172, 000 in October, excellent November retail sales numbers, GDP upwardly revised to 2.5%, and increased consumer confidence and productivity.

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They have sought to draw psychological and behavioral lessons from the enormous amounts of data the credit-card companies collect every day.

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The first data results, published this month in Health Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association, found that the students given the tubes with the marked chips ate on average half the number of chips as the students given the unmarked tubes.

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