It is Monday morning. You have just arrived at work, and you get one of the following three emails, each promising a different reward if you get everything done that day: One says you'll get a cash bonus. Another says your boss will give you a rare compliment. A third says you'll get a voucher for ...
Date Posted: September 14, 2016
Categories: Workplace Issues
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After a lifetime of hard work, thousands of baby boomers are retiring in record numbers across the globe. Like any life transition, embarking on the transition from working life to retirement can be wrought with challenges and stressors, especially ...
Sep 14
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Happiness
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What if we told you that distressing memories could be wiped away by moving your eyes from left to right, over and over again? Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy designed to alleviate the distress associated with ...
Sep 13
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Ever wake up still disturbed - and haunted - by the memory of a particularly upsetting image or incident? Research over the past few years has revealed that sleep is intimately tied to memory and might actually be necessary for a large part of its ...
Sep 13
Categories: Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex ...
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Cumulative trauma during a person's lifetime can have an overall effect on health in one's later years, according to a study that examines the consequences of traumatic events on older adults' physical health. Also, traumas experienced in adulthood ...
Sep 10
Categories: Adult psychological development, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
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Today, the 10th of September, is World Suicide Prevention Day. One of the most prominent questions surrounding suicide is "Why did they do it?" In considering people’s motivations for killing themselves, it is essential to recognize that most ...
Sep 10
Categories: Depression, Suicide Prevention
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Optimists have good reason to be optimistic – research tells us that their sunny outlook means that they are likely to live longer, healthier, happier lives compared with others who have a habit of seeing a darker future ahead. This has led ...
Sep 9
Categories: Happiness
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Attention-grabbing experiences trigger the release of memory-enhancing chemicals. Those chemicals can etch memories into the brain that occur just before or soon after the experience, regardless of whether they were related to the event, according ...
Sep 9
Categories: Dementia
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Can You Improve Physical Skills While Dreaming?
by Carla Clark, PhD | September 8, 2016
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Can we significantly improve physical skills by practicing them while we sleep? Yes, scientists say. ...
Sep 9
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If you're like most people, you believe that releasing anger is healthier than keeping it bottled up. This belief dates back more than 2,000 years to the Greek philosopher Aristotle. In his classic Poetics, Aristotle observed that viewing tragic ...
Sep 8
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Anger Management
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Loneliness not only feels nasty, it can also make you depressed, shatter your sleep, even kill you. Yet scientists think loneliness evolved because it was good for us. It still is - sometimes.
Sep 8
Categories: Depression, Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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A study presented at this year's European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in London shows that increased physical activity among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) reduces their risk of anxiety or depression.
Sep 7
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The Meeting on Policy and Programme Responses to Mental and Behavioural Disorders associated with Excessive Use of the Internet and other Communication and Gaming Platforms co-organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Department of ...
Sep 7
Categories: Addictions
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Transactive memory systems (TMS) are repositories of knowledge that are shared between two or more people. A shared memory of events between friends can be part of it, but it's also a way of calling up facts that other people know. If you say "Oh, ...
Sep 6
Categories: Friendships, Relationships & Marriage
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Humans often make bad decisions. If you like Snickers more than Milky Way, it seems obvious which candy bar you’d pick, given a choice of the two. Traditional economic models follow this logical intuition, suggesting that people assign a value to ...
Sep 6
Categories: Adult psychological development
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Scientists say the more foreign languages we learn, the more effectively our brain reacts and processes the data accumulated in the course of learning. Scientists from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) together with colleagues from the University ...
Sep 6
Categories: Other
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