Three from PsychCentral: Racier Clothing Choices for Ovulating Women Adult Behavior Follows Childhood Personality Brain Activity Influenced by Perceptions and Attitude
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ScienceDaily: Emotions help animals to make choices Happy? Angry? Anxious? How can we measure animal emotions? To understand how animals experience the world and how they should be treated, people need to better understand their emotional lives. A new review of animal emotion suggests that, as in humans, emotions may tell animals about how dangerous or
PsychCentral: Train Brain To Reduce Cravings. Smokers who are taught cognitive strategies, such as thinking about the long-term consequences of smoking, show increased activity in the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with cognitive control and rational thought.
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ScienceDaily: What You Say About Others Says a Lot About You, Research Shows This research suggests that when you ask someone to rate the personality of a particular coworker or acquaintance, you may learn as much about the rater providing the personality description as the person they are describing.
WebMD: Internet Overuse May Cause Depression. Researchers say that their work suggests that teens who use the Internet pathologically may be about 2.5 times more likely to develop depression than teens who are not addicted to the Internet.
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Wired: Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine. The list of ailments connected to stress is staggeringly diverse and includes everything from the common cold and lower-back pain to Alzheimer’s disease, major depressive disorder, and heart attack. Stress hollows out our bones and atrophies our muscles. It triggers adult-onset diabetes and is a leading cause
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ScienceDaily: Reality TV, cosmetic surgey linked, says researcher. Research suggests that teens fond of reality TV programs are more likely to join the millions who go under the knife each year…
NYT: Family Relations: An International Comparison It’s not just you. Compared with elderly parents and adult children in five other industrialized nations, Americans are twice as likely to have “disharmonious” relationships, a new multinational study has found. And we’re correspondingly less likely to have “amicable” relationships marked by strong affection and relatively free of conflict.
In never rains in California, but… In a comprehensive new study of mental health status and the use of mental health services by Californians, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that nearly one in five adults in the state — about 4.9 million people — said they needed help for a mental
PsyBlog posts the latest on how to win friends and influence people. The art and science of persuasion is often discussed as though changing people’s minds is about using the right arguments, the right tone of voice or the right negotiation tactic. But effective influence and persuasion isn’t just about patter, body language or other
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