I’m sure that you have had the experience of hopping into the grocery store when you are hungry. As you walk through the aisles, all kinds of snacks and chips seem to leap from the shelves into your cart. What you hoped was going to be a quick trip becomes more expensive than you intended.
There is research that has explored this situation.
Date Posted: April 12, 2012
GOResearchers at Harvard Medical School have significantly reduced from hours to minutes the time it takes to accurately detect autism in young children. The process of diagnosing autism is complex, subjective, and often limited to only a segment of ...
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When was the last time you let your child play without thinking it was a complete waste of time? If you think Junior would be better off attending enrichment classes, think again.
"Original play", as Dr Fred Donaldson, author of the Pulitzer ...
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It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom's good example. Research by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, has found that at least part of the reason some people ...
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Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier to think ...
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Pregnant women might now have one more good reason to watch their diet and exercise: A new study links autism and developmental delays in young children to metabolic conditions, like obesity and diabetes, in their mothers.
The findings, published ...
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Ask yourself this set of simple questions every few weeks to help gauge how much damaging stress you are experiencing. Overwhelming stress cripples. Neuroscientists have begun to learn that even acute, everyday stress can turn off the brain’s ...
Apr 10
GOMoney doesn't buy happiness. Neither does materialism: Research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not. Now new research shows that materialism is ...
Apr 10
GOAccording to a study published in the April issue of Psychiatric Services, people are less prepared to pay for prevent mental illnesses than for treatments of medical conditions. The study also revealed that regardless of the fact that mental ...
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If you maintain any type of presence online, you’ve likely encountered at least one difficult person whose behavior you find irritating. Unfortunately, as much as you might want to lash out and demonstrate just how “wrong” this person is, ...
Apr 9
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Author, Bronnie Ware, took her experiences working with dying patients and wrote a beautiful book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. The wisdom she imparts from helping people die with dignity is inspiring, poignant and apt to make you think ...
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Well before “not fair!” becomes a staple phrase of your child’s spoken repertoire, he or she might already have a fundamental grasp of right and wrong. A study published last October in PLoS One found that 15-month-old infants could identify ...
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But a team led by Evan E. Eichler, a professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, independently found the same thing in a study of 209 families: one child with autism — and a glitch in the very same gene.
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After being a model employee for the parent company of The Cash Store, Cottonwood Financial, Sean Riley asked for some time off in order to deal with his bipolar disorder after having worked for the company for about 6 months. They denied his ...
Apr 7
GOOnline dating is one of the fastest growing industries, and many websites now include some sort of profiling tool for predicting romantic compatibility. However, few of these websites (and that is also true for most researchers working in this area) ...
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