You can probably recall a customer service experience that left you feeling good. A recent study has shown not only that positive emotion from sales staff is contagious to a customer, but that a satisfied customer also improves the salesperson’s mood. This research is now available in Human Relations, published by SAGE. Sandra ...
Date Posted: September 1, 2012
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Dr Angela Attwood and colleagues from Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology recruited 160 social drinkers aged 18-40 with no history of alcoholism to attend two experimental sessions. At one session they were asked to drink either lager or a ...
Sep 1
GO“Wisdom comes with winters,” Oscar Wilde once said. And it’s certainly comforting to think that aging benefits the mind, if not the body. But do we really get wiser as time passes? There are many way to define what exactly wisdom is, but ...
Aug 31
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The elderly learn to disentangle themselves from feelings of negativity and seem to focus more on present situations that bring pleasure, rather than on the future, researchers say. They also tend to process negative information less deeply than ...
Aug 31
GOColumbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified a potential medical treatment for the cognitive effects of stress-related disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study, conducted in a PTSD mouse model, ...
Aug 31
GOThe researchers from the University of Bonn and the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim compared the genetic makeup of the problematic Internet users with that of healthy control individuals. This showed that the 132 subjects are more ...
Aug 30
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, author Robert Fulghum wrote in a book with that title some time ago.
What he recalled was simple. "Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit." These and about a dozen similar lessons were the ...
Aug 30
GOTemper tantrums in young children can be an early signal of mental health problems, but how does a parent or pediatrician know when disruptive behavior is typical or a sign of a serious problem? New Northwestern Medicine research will give ...
Aug 30
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Ever heard somebody utter the phrase, “Somebody must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed!” in your general direction? Not only is it hugely irritating to be reminded that you aren’t feeling bright and cheery – the statement itself ...
Aug 29
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In a recent paper published in Psychological Science, Krishna Savani of the National University of Singapore Business School and Aneeta Rattan of Stanford University asked some of their participants to list five things they did during the previous ...
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A new study has found a gene that appears to make women happy, but it doesn’t work for men. The finding may help explain why women are often happier than men, the research team said.
Scientists at the University of South Florida (USF), the ...
Aug 29
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We’ve all heard of the legendary monogamous prairie vole, haven’t we? Our adorable rodent friend forms the kind of attachments that make us humans feel slightly ashamed of our more promiscuous habits. And of course, if we know about prairie ...
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The Media Violence Commission's research-based report concludes that the research clearly shows that media violence consumption increases the relative risk of aggression, defined as intentional harm to another person that could be verbal, ...
Aug 28
GOThe persistent, dependent use of marijuana before age 18 has been shown to cause lasting harm to a person's intelligence, attention and memory, according to an international research team. Among a long-range study cohort of more than 1,000 New ...
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One of the prominent “virtues” of high sensitivity is the richness of sensory detail that life provides. The subtle shades of texture in clothing, and foods when cooking, the sounds of music or even traffic or people talking, fragrances and ...
Aug 27
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Like an overwhelmed traffic cop, the depressed brain may transmit signals among regions in a dysfunctional way. Recent brain-imaging studies suggest that areas of the brain involved in mood, concentration and conscious thought are hyperconnected, ...
Aug 27
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