A research, recently published on the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that a correlate of a body-ownership illusion is that the virtual type of body carries with it a set of temporary changes in perception and behaviours that are appropriate to that type of body. The research has been carried out by Domma Banakou, ...
Date Posted: July 20, 2013
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If you want to excel at anything, it’s not enough to fix your weaknesses. You also need to leverage your strengths. When Albert Einstein failed a French exam, if he had concentrated only on his language skills, he might never have transformed ...
Jul 20
Categories: Self-Confidence, Strengths Assessment
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Controversy exists over what some mental health experts call "hypersexuality," or sexual "addiction." Namely, is it a mental disorder at all, or something else? It failed to make the cut in the recently updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
Jul 20
Categories: Addictions
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The stories of Bill Clinton's charisma are legend.
Much of that charisma was communicated through eye contact.
Those who have met him say that when he looks at you, it's a very intimate experience. His eye contact is said to be deep and personal, ...
Jul 19
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Fewer women are getting married and they’re waiting longer to tie the knot when they do decide to walk down the aisle. That’s according to a new Family Profile from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green ...
Jul 19
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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University of Arizona researchers have found in a recent study that ultrasound waves applied to specific areas of the brain appear able to alter patients' moods. The discovery has led the scientists to conduct further investigations with the hope ...
Jul 19
Categories: Mood Swings / Bipolar
GOIt’s common knowledge that high school can be a cruel environment where attractive students are considered “popular,” and unattractive kids often get bullied. While that type of petty behavior is expected to vanish with adulthood, new research ...
Jul 18
Categories: Bullying
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a brainwave-measuring device to help diagnose kids with ADHD, a first for the disorder.
The device detects two different types of brainwaves, theta and beta, and how frequently they occur. Kids ...
Jul 18
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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If trying to buy an apartment in New York City has been making you miserable, consider this: actually getting that home may not make you happy.
A growing body of research suggests that spending money on real estate doesn’t necessarily mean ...
Jul 17
Categories: Happiness
GOWhether you’re reading the paper or thinking through your schedule for the day, chances are that you’re hearing yourself speak even if you’re not saying words out loud. This internal speech — the monologue you “hear” inside your head — ...
Jul 17
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Young men who are members of street gangs are more likely to have psychiatric illnesses and access mental health services, according to new research from the UK published online in the July 12th issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Lead ...
Jul 17
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Newly published findings by medical researchers at the University of Alberta provide more evidence that music decreases children’s perceived sense of pain.
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry researcher Lisa Hartling led the research team that ...
Jul 16
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What has happened to people's happiness all around the world as they've faced the economic crisis? How have they coped with job losses, less money coming in, the sense of despair and lack of control over a nightmare that seems to have no ...
Jul 16
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A little bit of learned fear is a good thing, keeping us from making risky, stupid decisions or falling over and over again into the same trap. But new research from neuroscientists and molecular biologists at USC shows that a missing brain protein ...
Jul 16
Categories: Anxiety
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Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly achievements more than 30 years later, according to results from a Vanderbilt University longitudinal study, published today in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association ...
Jul 15
GOA new study by psychology researchers suggests that whether parents are gay, lesbian or straight, how well they work together as a couple and support each other in parenting is linked to fewer behavior problems among their adopted children and is ...
Jul 15
Categories: LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender) Issues, Parenting
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