Whether you're wondering what color to paint the office, or you're looking to redesign your retail space, the colors you choose can increase your chance of reaching your goals. Color greatly influences human emotion and behavior. If you're hoping to make your workers more productive, or you want to ...
Date Posted: February 8, 2014
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Oxford University researchers have identified an area of the human brain that appears unlike anything in the brains of some of our closest relatives.
The brain area pinpointed is known to be intimately involved in some of the most advanced planning ...
Feb 7
Categories: Executive Functions
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You wouldn't believe the amount of ink spilled by neuroscientists and psychologists attempting to explain the simple fact that we can't tickle ourselves. A popular, long-standing theory posits that the self-tickle failure occurs because of the way ...
Feb 7
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PHILIPPINES - "A MENTAL illness is just like any other illness," said Dr. Laureen Conanan, chief of Southern Philippines Medical Center's Institute of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (SPMC-IPBM), and that mental illness can also take various ...
Feb 7
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Sooo, you've been together for seven years; when are you finally going to get engaged?
How come you two aren't having kids yet? You know it's harder to get pregnant as you age. For instance, my cousin, Tina…
People say the darnedest things, ...
Feb 6
Categories: Anger Management
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FROM James Moriarty to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the idea of the evil genius has been a staple of storytelling. But is it true? Or, to put the matter less starkly, is there a connection between creativity and dishonesty in real people who are not bent ...
Feb 6
Categories: Creative Blocks
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With nearly one-third of Americans suffering from chronic pain, prescription opioid painkillers have become the leading form of treatment for this debilitating condition. Unfortunately, misuse of prescription opioids can lead to serious side effects ...
Feb 6
Categories: Chronic Pain, Pain management
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Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get it. So naturally we are obsessed with it.
I would love to be happier, as I'm sure most people would, so I thought it would be interesting to find some ...
Feb 5
Categories: Happiness, Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Meditation, Workplace ...
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Does giving a speech in public stress you out? Or writing a big presentation for your boss? What about skydiving?
One way to cope, according to a new study from Sarah Townsend, assistant professor of management and organization at the USC Marshall ...
Feb 5
Categories: Stress Management
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A college savings account in a child’s name not only gives parents hope for the future, it also results in improved social-emotional health for their children.
The study, led by Washington University in St. Louis’ Center for Social Development ...
Feb 4
Categories: Child Development
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Believing that you've had a good night's sleep can influence your mental performance, regardless of how much sleep you actually had. That's according to a new paper, by Christina Draganich and Kristi Erdal, who tricked students into thinking there's ...
Feb 4
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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Children who are raised by same-sex parents do just as well in social development, education and emotionally as those raised by heterosexual couples, an Australian review of the research finds.
In Australia 11% of gay men and 33% of lesbians have ...
Feb 4
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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An interesting paper in the snappily titled International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology examines what we know about the psychology of revenge.
It seems that taking revenge is rare, but when it happens, it is not only ...
Feb 3
Categories: Ending a relationship issues
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MALAYSIA - A mental health test on couples intending to get hitched is seen as the best way to reduce domestic violence.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim said as such, the ministry had no objection ...
Feb 3
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Relationships & Marriage
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Nathan Filer's debut novel, The Shock Of The Fall, is a haunting and powerful take on guilt, death and mental illness and has won best first novel at the 2014 Costa Book Awards.
Feb 3
Categories: Schizophrenia
GOFifty years ago there was a revolution in psychology which changed the way we think about the mind. The ‘cognitive revolution’ ...
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