Using the search function on your smartphone? Unable to recall your dad’s mobile number? Research has found that smarter individuals use the search function less often than the intuitive thinkers.
Date Posted: March 13, 2015
Categories: Addictions
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You must be thinking how awful one looks when they are drunk. A new study finds that have one to two glasses of wine can make the drinker look more attractive to others. However, above that amount, one does not look more attractive than sober.
Mar 13
Categories: Other
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Money can't buy you happiness, goes the generally accepted wisdom that was probably made up by someone poor, who wanted to bring his rich friends down a few notches. Some scientific studies have agreed with that sentiment, while others have ...
Mar 12
Categories: Happiness
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According to the perspectives of the mental health professionals, implications of stigma include patients being trapped in a vicious cycle of discrimination leading to detrimental consequences for the individual, their families, communities and ...
Mar 12
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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According to a new post from the Association for Psychological Science, which references research published last year in Psychological Science, we tend to make wiser decisions when thinking about someone else's problems than when thinking about our ...
Mar 12
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A recent study from the University of Georgia shows differences in brain structure according to how trusting people are of others.
The research may have implications for future treatments of psychological conditions such as autism, said the study's ...
Mar 11
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Between November 2013 and May last year, migrant worker welfare group Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home) conducted a survey on 670 maids and found out that about a quarter of those surveyed could be classified as having poor ...
Mar 11
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Two intense emotions that are linked to massive increase in heart attack risk.
Mar 9
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues
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The core symptoms of ADHD frequently cause significant impairment in academic, social and behavioral functioning that adversely impact individuals’ quality of life.
Mar 9
Categories: Adult ADHD
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We worry about all sorts of things: money, work, family… We are stress over all sorts of events.
Mar 7
Categories: Midlife Crisis / Midlife Transition
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We are constantly bombarded with images of thin people on billboards, on magazines and what not. The study looks at the ideals that children have. And how young girls are showing a preference for thin girls by allocating more "positive" adjectives ...
Mar 7
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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“Even though we all make a lot of attentional errors and we have difficulty focusing, there’s -some potential for those abilities to improve.”
- Dr Nicholas Turk-Browne
Mar 7
Categories: Mindfulness
GOTeachers unconsciously put girls off math and science by marking down their work in comparison to boys, a new study finds.
Mar 6
Categories: Child Development, Teenage Issues
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In the pursuit of being the popular kid along with your team-mates, would you sabotage your rivals, would you cheat?
Mar 6
Categories: Social Isolation
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"They [the children] bothered me, so I decided to kill them."
"I like to attend funerals. I'm happy when someone is dying."
"That is my ambition, to have killed more people – more helpless people – than any man or woman who has ever ...
Mar 6
Categories: Aggression & Violence
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Schizophrenia is a distressing psychological disorder, which predominantly affects young people and can run in families. However, there has been limited progress in uncovering the genetic risk factors associated with schizophrenia despite numerous ...
Mar 5
Categories: Schizophrenia
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