What makes a great comedian?
In comedy it’s often a matter of taste–one man’s comedian is another’s buffoon–but are there certain personality factors that make a comedian?
To find out a new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry examined the personalities of comedians from the US, Britain and Australia.
Date Posted: January 20, 2014
GOThis systematic review of psychological therapies for borderline personality disorder (BPD), conducted in Spain, takes an interesting approach to reviewing the literature. Unfortunately, there appear to have been challenges in translating the ...
Jan 19
Categories: Borderline Personality Disorder
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I choked.
It was just a middle-school tennis match against a manifestly worse player, but I became overwhelmed with anxiety. Before we’d started, the most important thing was to win. But during the match, I just wanted to get off the court fast. ...
Jan 18
Categories: Anxiety
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Many studies suggest that pushing your brain to multitask — writing emails, for instance, while watching the day’s latest news and eating breakfast — leads to poorer performance and lower productivity. But for at least one everyday task — ...
Jan 17
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Ever want to change something about your partner? Get him or her to eat better or work less? Exercise more? Stop nagging or yelling? Start with a mirror.
Your best chance of transforming someone else—and the dynamic in your relationship—is to ...
Jan 17
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Relationships & Marriage
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Although Narcissus himself might not have been able to step away from his reflection in the mirror to get to the office, when it comes to leadership, a moderate amount of narcissism can go a long way.
So says a new study published in the journal ...
Jan 16
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The open office was originally conceived by a team from Hamburg, Germany, in the nineteen-fifties, to facilitate communication and idea flow. But a growing body of evidence suggests that the open office undermines the very things that it was ...
Jan 16
Categories: Workplace Issues
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As counterintuitive as it may seem, a study has revealed that inflated praise given to children who are suffering from low self-esteem could be detrimental to their ability to overcome their feelings of inadequacy. Whilst children with high ...
Jan 15
Categories: Child Development
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Stress is the feeling of being under too much mental or emotional pressure. And coupled with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, it is the reason for one in five visits to GPs. NHS Corby and NHS Nene Clinical Commissioning Groups ...
Jan 15
Categories: Stress Management
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A new study, which included over 1,000 participants, is one of the first to examine the long-term effects of green spaces on mental health (Alcock et al., 2014).
People in the study were followed over five years, in which time some moved to greener ...
Jan 15
Categories: Stress Management
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Ask a group of grade school students to name their favorite class and the overwhelming and immediate response is “recess!” Kids are not wired to sit still for hours focused on learning math equations or memorizing facts. They’re built to ...
Jan 14
Categories: Child Development
GOIn the search for treatments to help their children, families may turn to unconventional approaches such as mind-body medicine (e.g. ...
Jan 14
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
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SINGAPORE - In a nation of stressed-out workaholics and long working hours, plans to improve mental health at the workplace, such as introducing a counselling hotline for employees and a workplace depression education campaign, are in the ...
Jan 13
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Despite the way that mobile technologies and social networking sites have made it easier to stay in touch with large numbers of acquaintances, a new study has shown that people still put most of their efforts into communicating with small numbers of ...
Jan 13
Categories: Friendships, Relationships & Marriage
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Do blind people understand race? Given the vast and sprawling writings on race over the past several decades, it is surprising that scholars have not explored this question in any real depth. Race has played a profound and central role to human ...
Jan 12
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MALAYSIA: Experts are ringing alarm bells that child abuse cases are bound to escalate and a contributing factor is mounting pressure on families in trying to deal with the high cost of living.
The Malaysian Mental Health Association says the ...
Jan 11
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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