The ability to recall names and faces with lightning speed may start to fade in one's 20s, but our capability to perform other functions, such as learning new words, doesn't peak until decades later, according to a new study by Boston scientists.
Date Posted: March 18, 2015
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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In recent years, psychologists have taken a deeper look at well-being. The traditional approach to well-being focuses on hedonic pleasures and positive emotions. However, while positive emotions often accompany happiness, the mere experience of ...
Mar 18
Categories: Happiness
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A few years ago Bill Gates teamed up with an engineer named Peter Janicki to create an ingenious machine that uses the same ingredient that taints water supplies - human waste - to clean them. The "Janicki Omniprocessor", which looks something like ...
Mar 17
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The Mediterranean diet is known to prevent against heart disease and is hailed as the secret to a long, healthy life. Now, researchers have found the can help people with depression, too.
A study found people who followed the diet were happier, ...
Mar 17
Categories: Anxiety, Eating Disorders, Stress Management
GO"Narcissism is associated with various interpersonal dysfunctions, including an inability to maintain healthy long-term relationships, unethical behavior and aggression. At the same time, narcissism is shown to boost self-esteem, emotional stability ...
Mar 16
Categories: Other
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How 20 minutes of Mozart affects the expression of genes vital to learning, memory and more…
Mar 16
Categories: Learning Difficulties, Other
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Australian scientists have found an Alzheimer’s treatment that can restore memory using ultrasound technology.
Mar 14
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Eyewitness testimony might not exactly be reliable, even if the witness believes that he/she is telling the truth.
Mar 14
Categories: Adult psychological development
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The purpose of these airport security screening interviews is to catch deceptive people. Would you be able to spot someone that is lying? What if you let a criminal through the security? Most importantly, can these few liars be caught effectively?
Mar 14
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Do you remember how Apple’s iconic apple logo looks like? We are surrounded by so many Apple products daily. The iPhone, MacBook, IPad and what not. With these frequent exposures, well surely, we must have known how the logo to look like in order ...
Mar 13
Categories: Other
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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.
Mar 13
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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