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 the link between personality traits and effective ...
Date Posted: November 13, 2013
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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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Everything, from desks to car seats, can influence our thoughts and behavior--though not always for the better.
One of Darwin's greatest insights came at the end of his 1872 work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. "The free ...
Nov 12
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University of Granada researchers have analysed similarities and differences in psychological profile and brain function when comparing cocaine addicts and gambling addicts. The study reveals that gambling addicts present brain function ...
Nov 12
Categories: Addictions, Gambling Addiction
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If you ask someone to show you how to tie their shoe-laces or play Jenga, they will almost certainly use their hands to do so.
In a study investigating how gestures interact with thoughts, Beilock and Goldin-Meadow (2010) had participants trying to ...
Nov 10
GOCocaine addicts may become trapped in drug binges - not because of the euphoric highs they are chasing but rather the unbearable emotional lows they desperately want to avoid. In a study published today online in Psychopharmacology, Rutgers ...
Nov 9
Categories: Addictions
GOSingapore -- More teenagers, some as young as 13, are being treated at Singapore's public hospitals for eating disorders. Figures from the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) show that 95 youngsters aged 13 to 19 suffered from anorexia or bulimia last ...
Nov 9
Categories: Eating Disorders
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In order for prolonged exposure therapy, an evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD, to reach its full potential, any misperceptions or ruptures in trust and communication between therapist and client need fixing, according to a new Case Western ...
Nov 9
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a behavioral disorder characterized by the inability to focus and a lack of control over behaviors often leading to an overactive state. ADHD is often diagnosed in children, who are usually ...
Nov 8
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child and/or ...
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A lack of support and rehabilitation services is one of the major concerns for older people living with mental illness, new research by an Australian health charity has found.
SANE Australia’s study, Growing Older, Staying Well – Mental health ...
Nov 8
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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A lot of bad behaviour goes on at night. Too much drinking, eating, fighting and all the rest.
But is this just down to the fact that people are mostly at work during the day, or is it more than that?
Could it be that people’s self-control is ...
Nov 7
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There’s good news and there’s bad news. Which do you want to hear first?
That depends on whether you are the giver or receiver of bad news, and if the news-giver wants the receiver to act on the information, according to researchers at the ...
Nov 7
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SINGAPORE: Patients diagnosed with addiction disorders can now undergo acupuncture treatment on top of their existing psychiatric and psychological treatments.
A new acupuncture clinic has been set up by the National Addictions Management Service ...
Nov 7
Categories: Addictions
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For long, brain development and maturation has been thought to be a one-way process, in which plasticity diminishes with age. The possibility that the adult brain can revert to a younger state and regain plasticity has not been considered, often. In ...
Nov 6
Categories: Depression
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My colleague, Tim Wilson, has long advocated that the psychology department at the University of Virginia stop interviewing potential graduate students or job applicants.
We conduct unstructured interviews, as most departments do, meaning the ...
Nov 6
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