Sibling bullying is a type of violence that is prevalent in the lives of most children, but little is known about it, researchers say. Clemson University psychology professor Robin Kowalski said the phenomenon has been overlooked. Kowalski and and co-author Jessica Skinner explored the extent to which sibling bullying is viewed to be normal and ...
Date Posted: September 25, 2013
Categories: Bullying
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Boredom, tiredness, hunger and stress can all set off a yawn. People can even 'catch' a bout of yawning when they see or hear another person in the throes of the involuntary gesture, a phenomenon known as social yawning.
Researchers speculate that ...
Sep 25
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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The brains of older people are slowing but experience more than makes up for the decline, a University of California, Riverside assistant professor of management and several colleagues found when asking the participants a series of financially ...
Sep 25
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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Up to 2.8 million people in Hong Kong suffer from some kind of insomnia. Anna Cummins takes a look at this exhausting problem and considers if our work-obsessed culture is slowly pushing us all towards a mental health crisis
How did you sleep last ...
Sep 25
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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Music can improve verbal IQ, aid in heart disease treatment, evoke colours in the mind and even help you see happy faces all around.
Every fan of music knows the tremendous power it can have over both thoughts and emotions.
Sep 24
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Has a movie or TV show ever left you feeling happy or uplifted about your own life? Entertainment media provides a wealth of emotionally evocative content, but relatively little attention has been paid to the subject of media creating positive ...
Sep 24
Categories: Happiness
GOWhen hotel manager Tony Wilson was asked to consider hiring people with a mental illness, he was a little reluctant. “At the start you think the worst of everything, don't you?” says Wilson, the general manager of Westwaters Hotel in Caroline ...
Sep 24
Categories: Workplace Issues
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A fear memory was reduced in people by exposing them to the memory over and over again while they slept. It's the first time that emotional memory has been manipulated in humans during sleep, report Northwestern Medicine® scientists.
The finding ...
Sep 23
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It's hard to fathom how our subjective lives can be rooted in the spongy flesh of brain matter. Yet the reality of the brain-mind link was made stark half way through the last century by the Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield. Before conducting ...
Sep 23
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A recently published study strongly suggests men succumb to sexual temptations more than women — for example, cheating on a partner — because they experience strong sexual impulses, not because they have weak self-control.
Previous research has ...
Sep 23
Categories: Infidelity
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Two new studies show that people who score high on a measure of sadism seem to enjoy pleasure from behaviours that hurt others, and are even willing to spend extra effort to make someone else suffer.
New research led by psychological scientist Erin ...
Sep 23
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Contrary to common wisdom, an idle brain is in fact doing important work – and in the age of constant information overload, it’s a good idea to go offline on a regular basis, says one KTH researcher.
Erik Fransén, whose research focuses on ...
Sep 21
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If you got beat up by a bully on your walk home from school every day, you would probably become very afraid of the spot where you usually met him. However, if the bully moved out of town, you would gradually cease to fear that ...
Sep 21
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
GOAlthough rituals such as shaking hands or saying, “bless you” after a sneeze don’t make practical sense, these arbitrary social conventions give people a sense of belonging in a particular social group. And according to a new psychology study ...
Sep 21
Categories: Child Development
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Australia - The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre is hopeful the first trial of an online intervention to help treat combined depression and alcohol abuse in young people will encourage more people to seek help.
While other e-health ...
Sep 20
Categories: Addictions, Teenage Issues
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NIMH grantees have demonstrated that a form of behavioral therapy can augment antidepressant treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) better than an antipsychotic. The researchers recommend that this specific form of cognitive behavior ...
Sep 20
Categories: Obsessions & Compulsions (OCD)
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