Are you someone’s foodie call? Studies have found that setting up dates in order to get free meals is linked to personality traits associated with manipulative and deceptive behaviours in romantic relationships.
Date Posted: June 26, 2019
Categories: Other, Personality problems, Relationships & Marriage
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Recent studies have found that the inability to suppress vivid and positive memories associated with objects can lead to hoarding problems for individuals.
Jun 21
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Other
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A recent study made use of eye-tracking technology to investigate how people make decisions.
Dec 24
Categories: Compulsive Spending / Shopping, Other
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A recent published experimental study investigated the effects of multi-tasking on productivity, with the results suggesting that perceived multi-tasking alone may well lead to increases in productivity. This is contradictory to previous findings ...
Nov 17
Categories: Other
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Neuroscientists from MIT have found the underlying mechanisms for the steering of attention away from trivial tasks towards potential threats, and they believe that dopamine is central to this process. Danger signals are received and interpreted in ...
Nov 14
Categories: Executive Functions, Other, Paranoia / Suspiciousness
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Schadenfreude is an emotion that has fascinated both professionals and lay people for quite a while, precisely because it is an emotion that has been associated with psychopathy.
Nov 3
Categories: Antisocial personality, Other
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Since childhood, our parents have taught us that sharing is caring and encouraged us to engage in pro-social, cooperative behaviours with our siblings and playmates, resulting in our inclination to be generous and helpful to the people around us, ...
Oct 24
Categories: Adult psychological development, Other
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What motivates people to donate? Psychologists have proposed several factors that increase the likelihood of donation as well as the amount donated. Some of these factors include situational demands, such as crisis relief after a natural disaster, ...
Oct 20
Categories: Other
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Moral psychologists believe there is an element of intuition involved in moral judgments, which is commonly termed as 'gut feeling' or the instantaneous judgment that people with regards to certain moral-like issues.
Oct 6
Categories: Other
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People like having many options. We like having the freedom to choose for ourselves instead of being forced into a corner. However, having an array of choices may not necessarily be better, in fact, we may even find ourselves more stressed when it ...
Oct 3
Categories: Other, Stress Management
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How do you know who you can trust?
A recent experiment suggests that an individual’s guilt-proneness is one of the strongest predictor of one’s trustworthiness.
Sep 26
Categories: Other, Personality problems, Trust Issues
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With the recent media focus on the Kavanaugh-Ford scandal, questions regarding recall and memory have surfaced. A special form of memory is particularly interesting, termed “flashbulb memories”. Flashbulb memories are formed during significant ...
Sep 26
Categories: Other, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Political advertisements are crafted to capture and retain the audience’s attention as quickly as possible. The most common and possibly, effective, way to accomplish this is by appealing to voters’ emotions.
Sep 8
Categories: Other
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Vegetarianism may be more than just a diet choice, as recent studies would suggest. A chemical called 6-7i-propylthiouricil, abbreviated as PROP, has been linked to an individual’s tendency to reject vegetables.
Sep 5
Categories: Other
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One of the most famous psychological study in the field is the Solomon-Asch study which examined the extent to which individuals conform to the group’s standard. The study was the first of its kind because it showed that individuals could be ...
Sep 5
Categories: Other
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This article explores the new associations found between the brain, individual resilience and anxiety.
Sep 3
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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