Making a public commitment to your goals reduces motivation. Search around for advice on how to commit to a goal and one commandment comes up again and again. Apparently you should make your goals public and this will increase your commitment to them. In theory when you tell your friends that ...
Date Posted: October 14, 2011
GOGrim economic times could cause men to seek more sexual partners, giving them more chances to reproduce, according to research by Omri Gillath, a social psychology professor at the University of Kansas. Men are likely to pursue short-term mating ...
Oct 14
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Drawing on tweets posted by more than two million people in 84 countries, researchers discovered that the emotional tone of people’s messages followed a similar pattern not only through the day but also through the week and the changing seasons. ...
Oct 13
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It's no surprise to researcher Lisa Kramer that financial market dips and crashes typically happen in the fall. Her most recent study, forthcoming in Social Psychological and Personality Science, shows that people who experience seasonal depression ...
Oct 13
GOThe repeal of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy and the legalization of gay marriage in New York state represent great strides for the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in America. And according to a Tel Aviv University ...
Oct 12
GOYoung people who are genetically vulnerable to depression should be extra careful about using cannabis: smoking cannabis leads to an increased risk of developing depressive symptoms. This has emerged from research carried out by Roy Otten at the ...
Oct 12
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For a number of years now, Oct 10 has been designated by the United Nations as World Mental Health Day and as the day to raise public awareness about mental health issues through open discussions. That may be something that is difficult to do well - ...
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World Mental Health Day raises public awareness about mental health issues. This year the theme is "Investing in mental health". Financial and human resources allocated for mental health are inadequate especially in low resource countries. The ...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is not as rare as you think. A study in the US estimates that there are roughly 8.8 million cases of adult ADHD in America – and nearly 75% of them are undiagnosed. Adult ADHD can cause a lot of ...
Oct 10
GOFor some people, the glass is always half full. Even when a football fan's team has lost ten matches in a row, he might still be convinced his team can reverse its run of bad luck. So why, in the face of clear evidence to suggest to the contrary, do ...
Oct 10
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As much as I've read about depression, this nugget of brilliance has never crossed my path. Depressed people are numb. Stewart thinks that pounding bass is a last resort, the last thing they can feel. Stewart's theory got me thinking. Maybe that ...
Oct 8
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Many of the world's biggest problems -- violence, racism, poverty -- are behavioral in nature. But psychologists are generally shut out of the running for the Nobel Prize. When psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in economics last year ...
Oct 8
GOA new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has found evidence that a specific gene is linked to suicidal behaviour, adding to our knowledge of the many complex causes of suicide. This research may help doctors one day target the ...
Oct 8
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When I learned Steve Jobs had passed away I was very deeply moved like so many others. I went to bed and around 3 in the morning I realized he was still on my mind and that I was moved more by his death than by the passing of many other notables. ...
Oct 7
GOBe it at school, office, the neighborhood or the community people live in, conflicting situations amongst various groups might arise on an almost day to day basis. Today, the prevalence of these intergroup conflicts is on the rise and has resulted ...
Oct 7
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The idea that testosterone might drop in new fathers first appeared in studies of other species in which mothers and fathers cooperate to raise their young. For instance, fathers are especially involved in caregiving in many bird species, because ...
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