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Students who work together and interact online are more likely to be successful in their college classes, according to a study published Jan. 30 in the journal Nature Scientific Reports and co-authored by Manuel Cebrian, a computer scientist at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of ...
Date Posted: February 2, 2013
GOThe Invisible Gorilla is part of the popular culture nowadays, thanks largely to a widely-read 2010 book of that title. In that book, cognitive psychologists Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris popularized a phenomenon of human perception -- known in ...
Feb 2
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If you give people superpowers, will they use those abilities for good?
Researchers at Stanford recently investigated the subject by giving people the ability of Superman-like flight in the university's Virtual Human Interaction Laboratory (VHIL). ...
Feb 1
Categories: Empathy
GOWe often hear it, but how true is the phrase 'Money can't buy happiness'? Is there a correlation between the two, and if so, ...
Feb 1
Categories: Happiness
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"Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
A key question for people hoping to improve their well-being is whether it is ...
Feb 1
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You could always count on Kathy Church. When friends called to vent, she would pick up the phone. When there was a crisis at work, she'd dig in. When family members got together, she'd show up no matter how much she didn't want to.
Church was ...
Jan 31
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Looking for someone to feel your pain? Talk to a woman in her 50s.
According to a new study of more than 75,000 adults, women in that age group are more empathic than men of the same age and than younger or older people.
"Overall, late middle-aged ...
Jan 31
Categories: Empathy
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Far from being lonely at the top, people with power are happier than those without it, researchers have found.
Wielding power brings contentment and leads people to believe that they can be true to themselves.
Researchers conducted experiments ...
Jan 31
GOMichael Trimble, a British professor at the Institute of Neurology in London, begins his new book with Gana the gorilla. In the summer of 2009, 11-year-old Gana gave birth to a boy at a Muenster zoo. But one day in August, the baby suddenly and ...
Jan 30
GOGetting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences may lead to improved moral behavior, Boston College researchers report in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Jan 30
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One of the things I quickly discovered while working for Médecins Sans Frontières in Colombia, was that while there is lots of research on people who have experienced armed conflict in the past, there was very little information on the mental ...
Jan 30
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THIRTY years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. My prognosis was “grave”: I would never live independently, hold a job, find a loving partner, get married. My home would be a board-and-care facility, my days spent watching TV in a ...
Jan 29
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Research conducted by Matthew Shaffer, a doctoral psychology student at UT and C. Veronica Smith, an assistant psychology professor at the University of Mississippi, reveals that the first sexual experience can set the tone for the rest of one's ...
Jan 29
Categories: Sexual Problems / Sex Therapy
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Decreasing Loneliness
By Karyn Hall, PhD
Free Souls Embrace Creative Commons
“I feel like such a loser, I don’t have any friends to call to hang out with.”
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard some ...
Jan 29
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All sorts of claims have been made for the power of doodling: from it being an entertaining or relaxing activity, right through to it aiding creativity, or even that you can read people's personalities in their doodles. Although it's probably a ...
Jan 28
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There is not significant evidence to support the association between facial shape and aggression in men, according to a study published by the journal PLOS ONE. The professor Mireia Esparza, from the Anthropology Section of the Department of Animal ...
Jan 28
Categories: Aggression & Violence
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