After Aaron Alexis shot dead 12 people at the Navy Yard in Washington DC in September, media outlets were quick to highlight his reported enjoyment of violent video games. To many, this was just the latest example of how violent games can foster real-life aggression. There is research supporting such a link, although experts are far from reaching ...
Date Posted: November 19, 2013
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It’s a common perception portrayed in movies from “The Breakfast Club” to “Mean Girls.” Teenage friendships are formed by joining cliques such as jocks, geeks and goths.
But a national study led by a Michigan State University scholar ...
Nov 19
Categories: Friendships
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Playing video games can improve mood, reduce stress levels and boost self-esteem in young people, a new study has found.
Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia also found that playing video games as a family ...
Nov 19
Categories: Child Development
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Don't think about Wall Street.
Did you think about Wall Street? Of course you did. You can't stop yourself from thinking about something you're told not to think about. But I didn't just conjure images of stocks, suits, and a bronze bull. I primed ...
Nov 18
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Being a social butterfly just might change your brain: In people with a large network of friends and excellent social skills, certain brain regions are bigger and better connected than in people with fewer friends, a new study finds.
Nov 18
Categories: Friendships
GOSuicide risk among patients with first-episode psychosis appears to be greatest for older individuals with severe symptoms that have gone untreated for a long time, Asian study findings indicate. High levels of functioning were also associated with ...
Nov 16
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Suicide Prevention
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University of Adelaide researchers have taken a step forward in unravelling the causes of a commonly inherited intellectual disability, finding that a genetic mutation leads to a reduction in certain proteins in the brain.
ARX is among the top four ...
Nov 16
Categories: Intellectual Disability
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The US researchers found that children who drank more soda were more likely to be aggressive, to have attention problems, to get into fights and to destroy other people’s belongings.
Nov 15
Categories: Child Development
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Shifting the emphasis from gaze to hand, a study by Indiana University cognitive scientists provides compelling evidence for a new and possibly dominant way for social partners -- in this case, 1-year-olds and their parents -- to coordinate the ...
Nov 15
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Dozens of psychologists were starting work in the typhoon-raked Philippines Wednesday to help dazed survivors deal with the psychological fallout of one of the country's worst ever disasters.
The operation is an early attempt by health ...
Nov 15
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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A cognitive-behavioral intervention known as problem-solving education (PSE) may help reduce parental stress and depressive symptoms immediately after their child is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study by Emily ...
Nov 15
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
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Now the sun is rising earlier and the days are warming up, it's time to take advantage of the gorgeous mornings by lacing up. Your body and your health will thank you.
Running has a positive impact on both your physical and mental health, according ...
Nov 14
Categories: Anxiety, Depression
GOMalaysia: With about 10 per cent of Malaysia's population projected to experience mental illness by 2020, measures are being put in place to address the problem. Dr Raba'iah Mohd Salleh, the director of Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta in Tanjung ...
Nov 14
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Conscientious people are more likely to provide good customer service, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University.
The study, “Relations Between Personality, Knowledge and Behavior in Professional Service Encounters,” examines ...
Nov 13
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In the competition for readers' mouse clicks, a favoured trick is to phrase headlines as questions. This isn't an Internet innovation. As a way to grab attention, question headlines have been recommended by editors and marketeers for decades. But ...
Nov 13
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When a person is deemed trustworthy, we perceive that person's face to be more similar to our own, according to a new study published in Psychological Science.
A team of scientists from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway University, ...
Nov 13
Categories: Trust Issues
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