Being able to delay gratification—often considered a predictor of a child’s future success—is as much a question of environment as innate ability, a new study shows. For the past four decades, the “marshmallow test” has served as a classic experimental measure of children’s ...
Date Posted: October 16, 2012
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Most people hate public speaking. The very idea starts the palms sweating and the stomach churning.
It makes sense: with everyone's eyes on you, the potential for embarrassment is huge. Crowds, we are told, can sense our nerves.
Or can they? ...
Oct 15
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In a new study published in Frontiers, Dr Timothy Durazzo and colleagues from the San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, expand upon their decade of research showing that smoking while kicking the alcohol habit ...
Oct 15
Categories: Addictions
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Traits that are common among psychopathic serial killers—a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse and the manipulation of others—are also shared by politicians and world leaders. ...
Oct 15
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A new study on the physiological effects of stress has found that expectant parents respond differently to arguments depending on the presence of ongoing individual or relationship difficulties such as anxiety or chronic relationship conflict.
The ...
Oct 13
Categories: Pregnancy & Birthing, Relationships & Marriage, Stress ...
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A new study found that worriers who begin to chastise themselves at the mere thought of doing something wrong are less likely to behave immorally as a result of their unwavable conscience.
In contrast some 30 to 40 per cent of people fit the ...
Oct 13
GOThree studies conducted as part of Wayne State University's Systems Biology of Epilepsy Project (SBEP) could result in new types of treatment for the disease and, as a bonus, for behavioral disorders as well. Researchers then showed that the most ...
Oct 13
GOThe hormone testosterone stands for typically male attributes – it fosters the forming of the sexual characteristics, increases libido and muscle building. Women also have this sex hormone, but to a much lesser extent. "Testosterone has always ...
Oct 12
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Parents: Want to help ensure your children turn out to be happy and socially well adjusted? Bond with them when they are infants.
That’s the message from a study by the University of Iowa, which found that infants who have a close, intimate ...
Oct 12
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Codependency / Dependency, Dependency ...
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Checking social networking sites is more tempting than sex and cigarettes, a study has revealed.
Researchers at Chicago University's Booth Business School used BlackBerrys to log reports about participants' willpower and desires over seven ...
Oct 12
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WE’VE all been there: you feel especially smart and funny when talking to a particular person, only to feel hopelessly unintelligent and inarticulate in the presence of another.
You’re not imagining things. Experiments show that when people ...
Oct 11
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Happiness and mental health are highest among people who eat seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day, according to a new report.
Economists and public health researchers from the University of Warwick studied the eating habits of 80,000 people ...
Oct 11
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Teenagers who play violent video games over a number of years become more aggressive towards other people as a result.
The findings of a new study are said to be the first indication of a clear link between a sustained period of playing violent ...
Oct 11
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Today is the World Mental Health Day. Help promote open discussions of mental disorders, and investments in prevention, promotion and treatment services. This year the theme for the day is “Depression: A Global Crisis”.
Oct 10
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Among the most popular questions addressed in online communication research is the extent to which Internet use leads to undesirable psychosocial outcomes such as depression and loneliness. Evidence suggests that certain motivations to communicate ...
Oct 10
Categories: Adult psychological development, Antisocial personality
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Most people who suffer from serious pain have one or more mental images that they associate with the discomfort and what it represents to them. A new study by Clare Philips and Debbie Samsom has shown that these pain-sufferers can be taught to ...
Oct 10
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