Social psychologists often seem like killjoys when it comes to studying how people eat. A primary concern is overeating, so their main objective is frequently to try to identify the psychological levers that can be pulled to help people to eat less. This research has produced a number of pieces of ...
Date Posted: March 24, 2015
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To lose weight is to become happier. At least, this is the narrative voiced by countless health gurus, ubiquitous advertisements, and, sometimes, overly blunt friends and relatives.
Mar 24
Categories: Happiness
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The functional differences between autistic and non-autistic brains have been isolated for the first time, following the development of a new methodology for analysing MRI scans.
Mar 24
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Could this study provide the real reason that we tend to shake hands when greeting another person?
Mar 23
Categories: Other
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HORMONE replacement therapy increases the risk of ovarian cancer, analysis of 52 separate studies has found. The research team from University of Oxford claims there was no risk for short courses of HRT "simply isn't true".
Mar 23
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Other
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Does telling someone that the test is really hard affect their response to situation?
A deliberate suggestion can influence how well people remember things, how they respond to medical treatments, and even how well they will perform and behave, ...
Mar 21
Categories: Career Development and Change
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More infant breastfeeding is linked to higher intelligence, a longer period in education and greater earnings 30 years later, a new study finds.
Mar 21
Categories: Child Development
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When in face of a painful experience, we might choose to ruminate over it, or to distract ourselves with work. Those that brood might think that distractors are avoiding their problems, while the distractors thinks that these brooders are troubled ...
Mar 21
Categories: Depression
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Are you a bad parent? Or are you spoiling your child with habits of indulgence? Or could your money could be better used.
Mar 20
Categories: Child Development
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What’s the best way to start your day so that you really get things done?
Mar 20
Categories: Career Development and Change
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All of us wants to have meaningful jobs in workplaces. A job at Google would probably be one of the most sought after job. How to get hired?
Mar 20
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Imagine an activity that your kids could do after school every day that would improve their brain’s ability to make better decisions and solve problems. Online cognitive drills? Special tutors? Actually, researchers at the University of Illinois ...
Mar 19
Categories: Child Development
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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.
Mar 18
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 ...
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