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The aging process is a tricky one, psychologically speaking. Only the young look forward to getting older. It’s not fun to watch your face change—to note the first few creases in once perfectly smooth skin.

Willpower, or the ability to say, ‘no, thanks’ and mean it to cupcake No. 2, or yet another clothing sale at anthropologie.com, isn’t always easily summoned. For many of us it’s a struggle to deny ourselves the things we momentarily desire, especially when they’re covered in thick butter cream or going fast at up to 60 per cent off.

Want to significantly boost your earning power this year? Cop an attitude at work (and cross your fingers you don’t get fired).

From white lies to whoppers, how bad is our daily deceit quota? Researchers at the University of Massachusetts (via the Ottawa Citizen) found that 60 per cent of people lied up to three times in just 10 minutes. That’s nearly nine lies every half hour (in the spirit of honesty, I confess I had to use a calculator to figure that out).

Three cheers for love. Not only does it save human beings from the pangs of bitter loneliness and the indiscriminate reality-TV watching that is despair, one new study (via The Daily Mail) suggests that it’s the reason why our loved ones think we’re so darn good-looking even when we’re not.