The company you keep in junior high school may have more influence on your smoking behavior than your high school friends, according to newly published research from the University of Southern California (USC).
The study, which appears in the April 12 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, identifies how friends' and parental influence on ...
Date Posted: April 13, 2013
Categories: Addictions
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If you could stand in someone else's shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you ...
Apr 12
Categories: Empathy
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Traditional Buddhists meditate in the pursuit of enlightenment. Non-religious practitioners may try it out in order to find a bit of calm or perhaps to treat anxiety or depression. But whatever their motivation, people who meditate, new research ...
Apr 12
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Those who accept their pain condition are best able to tolerate pain, while distraction can be the way to lower pain intensity, according to research reported in The Journal of Pain, the peer review publication of the American Pain Society.
A team ...
Apr 12
Categories: Pain management
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With nearly one billion users worldwide, Facebook has become a daily activity for hundreds of millions of people. Because so many people engage with the website daily, researchers are interested in how emotionally involved Facebook users become ...
Apr 11
Categories: Addictions
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First a confession: I have never understood the popular fascination with whether women (or men) are better at multitasking.
That's because multitasking is something that's best avoided for any task that needs concentration. Humans don't multitask ...
Apr 11
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We all desire self-control — the resolve to skip happy hour and go to the gym instead, to finish a report before checking Facebook, to say no to the last piece of chocolate cake. Though many struggle to resist those temptations, new research ...
Apr 11
Categories: Control Issues
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Fear of public speaking tops death and spiders as the nation’s number one phobia. But new research shows that learning to rethink the way we view our shaky hands, pounding heart, and sweaty palms can help people perform better both mentally and ...
Apr 10
Categories: Anxiety, Social Anxiety / Phobia, Stress Management
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Why is it that some people rack their brains for new ideas, only to come up empty—while others seem to shake them almost effortlessly out of their sleeves?
Whether creativity is an innate gift or a cognitive process that anyone can jump-start ...
Apr 10
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With the word “team” ubiquitous to the point of cliché in the business world, the new research indicates that teams improve their performance when they meet in a structured environment in which each member reflects on his or her role and how it ...
Apr 10
Categories: Sports Psychology
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Although no exact formula for marital bliss exists, a University of Missouri researcher has found that husbands and wives are happier when they share household and child-rearing responsibilities. However, sharing responsibilities doesn’t ...
Apr 9
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When a child with autism copies the actions of an adult, he or she is likely to omit anything "silly" about what they've just seen. In contrast, typically developing children will go out of their way to repeat each and every element of the behavior ...
Apr 9
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
GOJust two decades ago, autism was a mysterious and somewhat obscure disorder, commonly associated with the movie Rain Man and savantism. It affected an estimated 1 in 5,000 children. How times have changed. Today, thanks to awareness and advocacy ...
Apr 9
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The premise is: perhaps aggression is at least in part caused by biases in emotion perception. So if you see a neutrally emotional face, due to biases in your emotional processing you view that face as angry or hostile. You respond with hostility ...
Apr 8
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New research provides an insight into how groups of people tackle social dilemmas and effectively punish those engaging in anti-social behaviour.
Neighbours playing loud music is an example of where a social dilemma can arise about who should ...
Apr 8
Categories: Antisocial personality
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We are aware of a tiny fraction of the thinking that goes on in our minds, and we can control only a tiny part of our conscious thoughts. The vast majority of our thinking efforts goes on subconsciously. Only one or two of these thoughts are likely ...
Apr 8
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