Do you like surprises? If you do, it may surprise you to learn that a lot of other people don't. Our natural ability (or lack thereof) to deal with surprising situations and the uncertainty they generate may have an important role to play in our creativity. Psychologists call our natural way ...
Date Posted: July 9, 2011
GOMental health experts are calling for a greater world focus on improving access to care and treatment for mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders, as well as increasing discoveries in research that will enable this goal to be met. ...
Jul 8
GOA gentle touch on the arm can be surprisingly persuasive. Consider these research findings. Library users who are touched while registering, rate the library and its personnel more favourably than the non-touched; diners are more satisfied and give ...
Jul 7
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As an entrepreneur owner-manager of a successful business, would you be willing to buy your business today at the same value that you would agree to sell it? According to Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler, people exhibit the endowment effect when they ...
Jul 6
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In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that all humans seek to fulfill a hierarchy of needs, which he represented with a pyramid. The pyramid's base, which he believed must come first, signified basic needs (for food, sleep and sex, ...
Jul 5
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Last month, when the New York congressman Anthony Weiner finally admitted that he had lied, that his Twitter account had not been hacked, that he in fact had sent a picture of his thinly clad undercarriage to a stranger in Seattle, I asked my wife ...
Jul 4
GOWith youths spending the greater part of the day in school, teachers are probably best placed to spot signs of distress in their charges. This early intervention can help prevent psychological issues from taking root and developing into major mental ...
Jul 2
GOHaving a boring job can leave you just as vulnerable to burnout than one which leaves you rushed off your feet, say psychiatrists. They believe there is a distinct category of "underchallenged" employees who end up finding they simply cannot take ...
Jul 1
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The Supreme Court decided today that it's unconstitutional for the state of California to bar minors from buying violent video games (here's the WSJ story). The 2005 law, which never took effect, violates children and adolescents' right to freedom ...
Jun 30
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We all know the uncomfortable feeling of anxiety. Our hearts race, our fingers sweat, and our breathing gets shallow and labored. We experience racing thoughts about a perceived threat that we think is too much to handle. That's because our "fight ...
Jun 29
GOIt's considered a rite of passage among young people -- acting out their independence through heavy, episodic drinking. But a new University of Cincinnati study, the first of its kind nationally, is showing how binge drinking among adolescents and ...
Jun 28
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The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is taking a sensible lead for the 21st century and updating its policy on technology and screen time from birth to age 3. The proactive association recognizes that technology and ...
Jun 27
GOCan a smartphone app enable meaningful, face-to-face conversation? Engineers are trying to find out, with software that helps people locate their friends in a crowd -- and make new friends who share similar interests.The software, called eShadow, ...
Jun 24
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Being born and raised in a major urban area is associated with greater lifetime risk for anxiety and mood disorders. Until now, the biology for these associations had not been described. A new international study, which involved Douglas Mental ...
Jun 23
GOYears ago, when I was struggling to accept my oldest daughter Katie's diagnosis of high functioning autism ("Why our kid, Mike? Why does she have to be different? It's so not fair!"), I picked up a book that changed my life. The book, Autism and the ...
Jun 22
GOAlthough sex and infidelity are now only a keyboard away, at the end of the day, there is no substitute for physical, face-to-face contact in our sexual relationships. That's according to a new study by Diane Kholos Wysocki, from the University of ...
Jun 21
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