Can you keep a secret? We refer to keeping secrets as if they are material things. And a new study suggests that when we know a secret, we perceive ourselves as being physically burdened. Researchers recruited participants to write a description of either a serious secret, like a story of infidelity or sexual orientation, or a more trivial ...
Date Posted: April 30, 2012
GOA discussion of recent data from a large range of human and animal studies that strongly support the hypothesis that impaired mitochondrial function may disrupt neural plasticity pathways and decrease cellular resilience, which in turn, potentially ...
Apr 30
GOResearchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) led a study discovering a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as how it likely affects cognitive development by disrupting neuron functioning. CAMH Senior ...
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Charles Duhigg's new book The Power of Habit draws on neuroscience and psychology to explain how habits form, how to promote good habits and how to break bad ones.
In 2010, a cognitive neuroscientist named Reza Habib asked twenty-two people to ...
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Literally sitting outside a box, rather than in it, makes you more creative, according to new psychological research.
There are lots of metaphors floating around in creativity. We talk about 'thinking outside the box', 'putting two and two ...
Apr 28
GOAging may seem unavoidable, but that's not necessarily so when it comes to the brain. So say researchers in the April 27th issue of the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences based on counterintuitive evidence that it is what you do in old ...
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People who are intuitive thinkers are more likely to be religious, but getting them to think analytically even in subtle ways decreases the strength of their belief, according to a new study in Science.
The research, conducted by University of ...
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"In your life expect some trouble; when you worry it makes things double."
Bobby McFerrin singing “Don’t Worry; Be Happy”
"The Focus Illusion can be summed up in a single sentence: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when ...
Apr 27
GOLefties have always been a bit of a puzzle. Representing only 10 percent of the general human population, left-handers have been viewed with suspicion and persecuted across history. The word “sinister” even derives from “left or ...
Apr 27
GOMost psychology research takes place under laboratory conditions allowing tight control over the exact interventions and procedures participants are exposed to. That makes for neater science but leaves the discipline vulnerable to claims that the ...
Apr 26
GOA history of binge eating -- consuming large amounts of food in a short period of time -- may make an individual more likely to show other addiction-like behaviors, including substance abuse, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
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TV sociopaths-- Don Draper, Tony Soprano-- do what they want and aren't bothered that you, a loser, think they're a jerk. The difference between you and them, according to Kotsko, is that they manipulate the social connections whereas you are mired ...
Apr 26
GOAccording to research out today in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, grey-matter loss due to aging is greater in people dependent on cocaine. The study looked at 120 participants — 60 dependent on cocaine and the others with no substance abuse ...
Apr 25
GOCommonly prescribed anti-depressants appear to be doing patients more harm than good, say researchers who have published a paper examining the impact of the medications on the entire body. "We need to be much more cautious about the widespread ...
Apr 25
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Both respect and status are crucial for healthy groups. In any group, some people emerge as the leaders. Those leaders have high status within the group, because others end up following what they decide. Movies and TV shows about groups often ...
Apr 25
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Women who are flattered when a fellow flirts with them at work may want to think again.
Flirtatious men are simply bored – and not very bright into the bargain, research suggests.
A study of British workers found that men who flirt at work ...
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