Too much eye contact can make other people more resistant to persuasion, a recent study finds. The results fly in the face of the common advice to make strong eye contact with another person when you want to persuade them.
Date Posted: June 5, 2014
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Learning a second language can have a positive effect on the brain, even if it is taken up in adulthood, a University of Edinburgh study suggests.
Jun 5
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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Deep sleep promotes our well-being, improves our memory and strengthens the body’s defences. Zurich and Fribourg researchers demonstrate how restorative SWS can also be increased without medication - using hypnosis.
Jun 4
Categories: Hypnosis, Sleep Disorders
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Many of my older-adult patients wanted to make a difference in the world but, finding no role for themselves, were treated as socially useless. Having created a new stage of life, the next step is to make it meaningful.
Jun 4
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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"Dog people" and "cat people" really do have different personalities, according to a new study.
Jun 4
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Can narcissists really change? The just-completed half-season of Mad Men, in which the self-centered Don Draper has gradually settled into a new role as a supportive friend and team player, appears to be answering that question in the affirmative. ...
Jun 3
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Psychological stress is harmful to sperm and semen quality, affecting its concentration, appearance, and ability to fertilize an egg, according to a study led by researchers Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Rutgers School of ...
Jun 3
Categories: Stress Management
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Being the leading
preventable cause of premature death and disabling diseases, a team of researchers from the Mexican Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) developed a virtual platform that measures the level of addiction of smokers, while ...
Jun 3
Categories: Addictions
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Born in Malaysia, Ms Chua lived in Hong Kong with her then husband before moving to Melbourne 30 years ago.
She worked 70 hours a week in two jobs - night shift at a factory and the family restaurant during the day - and brought up three ...
Jun 2
GODr Ang Yong Guan is a well-known mental health advocate and psychiatrist in Singapore, and was the longest-serving psychiatrist with the Singapore Armed Forces for almost 17 years. He knows the statistics in Singapore signal a crisis: one in six ...
Jun 2
Categories: Schizophrenia
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New research from the Monell Chemical Senses Center reveals that women’s faces are rated as more attractive in the presence of pleasant odors. In contrast, odor pleasantness had less effect on the evaluation of age. The findings suggest that the ...
Jun 2
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Most people handle stress well, but some find it difficult to cope and as a result develop depression and other mood disorders. Researchers have previously been able to identify the part of the brain that controls this response, but not exactly how ...
May 31
Categories: Depression
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How do you change someone's mind if you think you are right and they are wrong? Psychology reveals the last thing to do is the tactic we usually resort to.
May 31
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There's no evidence that typical levels of internet use harms adolescent brains, according to a new review of 134 studies.
On the contrary, the report, to be published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Science, finds some positives associated with ...
May 31
Categories: Child Development
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Nearly every third child in Sweden who is injured in traffic is subsequently affected by posttraumatic stress disorder. Every fifth child is still suffering from mental and psychosocial problems one year after the accident. These are the conclusions ...
May 30
Categories: Child Development
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A musical therapist who works with terminally ill children and their families at Cincinnati Children's Hospital has begun creating musical memories using the heartbeats of dying patients.
Brian Schreck records the thump of a patient's heartbeat ...
May 30
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