Wearing all black can make you a more aggressive competitor, and striking a pose can make you act authoritative. According to journalist Berdik, fulfilling expectations—such as perceiving a commanding, “I am the law” persona—is what our brain does best. In Mind over Mind, Berdik explains how anticipation can inform, even dictate, our ...
Date Posted: November 17, 2012
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“A new study has found that participating in an 8-week meditation training program can have measurable effects on how the brain functions even when someone is not actively meditating…While neuroimaging studies ...
Nov 16
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University of Cincinnati researchers report on the positive connections that offset tragedies among teenagers.
Untreated depression is one of the leading causes of teen suicide, and signs of depression can also be a warning that a teen is ...
Nov 16
Categories: Suicide Prevention
GOHumans can smell fear and disgust, and the emotions are contagious, according to a new study. The findings, published Nov. 5 in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that humans communicate via smell just like other animals. "These ...
Nov 16
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As a therapist, I often hear couples complain that whenever one partner tries to get close, the other pulls away. It's a painful reality that love isn't always as easy to give and receive as we'd like to think. Many people have developed defenses ...
Nov 15
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Your emotions can certainly impact your decisions, but you might be surprised by the extent to which your emotions affect your pocketbook. New research from psychological scientist Jennifer Lerner of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and ...
Nov 15
GOIn a new exploratory study, Johsua Clegg proposes a model. Social awkwardness, he posits, is what we feel when the situation threatens our goal of being accepted by others. The feeling prompts us to direct our attention inwards, to monitor our ...
Nov 15
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Twice-a-day Transcendental Meditation helped African Americans with heart disease reduce risk of death, heart attack and stroke.
Meditation helped patients lower their blood pressure, stress and anger compared with patients who attended a health ...
Nov 14
Categories: Mindfulness Meditation
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Conventional wisdom tells us kids feel bored at school because they are under-challenged, under-motivated or poorly taught.
When a child gazes out of a classroom window, fidgets and acts out at school, or heaves a sigh that says "I'm so bored!", ...
Nov 14
GOThe psychological scars of childhood abuse can last well into adulthood. New research from Concordia University shows the harm can have longterm negative physical effects, as well as emotional ones.
Nov 14
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adult psychological development
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Dream images could provide insights into people's mental health problems and may help with their treatment, according to a psychology researcher from the University of Adelaide.
Dr Lance Storm, a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of ...
Nov 12
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Brendan Rooney and his colleagues at University College Dublin showed 8 different movie clips (ranging from 13 to 68 seconds in length) to 27 participants (13 males; average age 27). The gory clips were chosen deliberately for their disgusting ...
Nov 12
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High levels of family stress in infancy are linked to differences in everyday brain function and anxiety in teenage girls, according to new results of a long-running population study by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.
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Nov 12
Categories: Anxiety, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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A group of scientists from the University of Copenhagen has created a model that shows how some types of ADHD medicine influence the brain’s reward system. The model makes it possible to understand the effect of the medicine and perhaps in ...
Nov 10
Categories: Adult ADHD
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A team of Japanese scientists have found scientific proof that people doing exercises appear to perform better when another person compliments them. The research was carried out by a group lead by National Institute for Physiological Sciences ...
Nov 10
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Pennsylvania State University researchers have found that it’s not just the stress, but how you react to it, that could have an impact on your health down the road. Oh ho!That means I’m in big trouble icon wink When stress sticks
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Nov 10
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