In my first experience with negotiation, a human resources rep at a publishing company offered me $24,000 a year for an entry-level gig. Having been coached never to take a first offer, I responded, “Is there any way you can do better?” A day later I was ecstatic to accept her second offer of ...
Date Posted: April 17, 2014
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Happy is as happy does, apparently - for human beings all over the world. Not only does acting extroverted lead to more positive feelings across several cultures, but people also report more upbeat behavior when they feel free to be themselves.
Apr 16
Categories: Happiness
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A decade-long education program aimed at teaching children self-regulation and other healthy cognitive techniques is showing results in reducing aggressive behavior when the schoolchildren become adults, according to new research published in the ...
Apr 16
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Child Development
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THE biggest cause of death among Australia’s young people is suicide.
Despite that, the subject receives little discussion, possibly because people are afraid of saying the wrong thing or feel powerless to make any sort of positive contribution.
Apr 16
Categories: Suicide Prevention
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If you start feeling better as spring begins pushing up its tender shoots, you might be living proof of a trend discovered in data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin: The more green space in the neighborhood, the happier people reported ...
Apr 16
Categories: Stress Management
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HANOI - A total of 14.9 percent among Vietnamese population suffer from mental disorders, said a report by World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday.
The most common psychiatric disorders in Vietnam include schizophrenia, epilepsy, depression, ...
Apr 16
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Scientific evidence points to the brain of people with autism and Asperger's syndrome as being different but not necessarily "disordered." Studies have shown that the brain in autism develops differently, in terms of both structure and function, ...
Apr 15
Categories: Asperger's Syndrome
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Newborns whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy to any one of a variety of environmental stressors - such as trauma, illness, and alcohol or drug abuse become susceptible to various psychiatric disorders that frequently arise later in life. ...
Apr 14
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Starting late last year, Internet service providers in Britain made "family-friendly filters," which block X-rated websites, the default for customers. Now any account holder who wants to view adult material needs to actively opt in - effectively ...
Apr 14
Categories: Child Development
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Growing up in a stressful social environment leaves lasting marks on young chromosomes, a study of African American boys has revealed. Telomeres, repetitive DNA sequences that protect the ends of chromosomes from fraying over time, are shorter in ...
Apr 14
Categories: Child Development, Stress Management
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EXTREME hoarding is an illness that needs to be treated carefully, according to a mental health expert.
Clinical psychologist Catherine Madigan says people who hoard have often experienced trauma and invest otherwise useless items with great ...
Apr 12
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Taking purposefully ugly selfies encourages photographers to seize control of their self-image by rejecting beauty standards and embracing the imperfect humanity of our faces. But what about earnest selfies that are just accidentally ugly?
Apr 12
Categories: Self-Esteem
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Viewing a movie creates multilevel changes in the brain function. Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people - even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.
Apr 11
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Rising crime rates are the tip of an insidious iceberg, as methamphetamine abuse cases soar in Australia.
The methamphetamine drug called ice is the drug of choice among young people, and so powerful that it can take just one hit for its users to ...
Apr 11
Categories: Drug Addiction
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Swedish researchers have found similarities in the dopamine system between highly creative individuals and those with schizophrenia.
Apr 11
Categories: Schizophrenia
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In a new study published in the journal Memory, the researchers say that people from diverse cultures experience the "fading affect bias" (FAB), the tendency for negative emotions to fade away more quickly than positive ones in our memories.
Apr 11
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