The industry and regulators seem ready to embrace autonomous cars, but are consumers? Many people are uncomfortable with a car figuring out who to harm in a situation where a collision is unavoidable. Even after manufacturers demonstrate that self-driving cars are safe, they will have to leap ...
Date Posted: October 12, 2017
Categories: Other
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Does social media use strengthen relationships, or does it displace offline interactions? New research identifies compares two contradicting hypotheses on the complicated relationship between loneliness and social internet use.
Oct 11
Categories: Friendships, Other, Social Isolation
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Diets often only work for a limited period of time, and once the diet is over, most people relapse into overeating. A new study says this craving of food even when you are full could be explained by behavioral conditioning.
Oct 10
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Other
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Research has shown that transitioning improves trans people's mental health. Whether the physical change involves medical treatment or not, the effects have been found to be overwhelmingly positive.
Oct 7
Categories: LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender) Issues, Workplace ...
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For a long time, medication dosages were adjusted for patient size and women were simply ‘small men’. However, men and women respond differently to diseases and treatments for biological, social and psychological reasons.
Oct 4
Categories: Academic Issues, Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Women's Issues
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We all feel stressed from time to time - it's all part of the emotional ups and downs of life. Evolutionary, the stress response has many advantages, however prolonged feelings of stress will wear and tear on the body. But what exactly goes on in ...
Oct 4
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Health Psychology, Stress ...
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Can we both learn and unlearn while we sleep? A new study suggests that we can. Both processes occur during different phases of sleep, the research shows.
Sep 29
Categories: Learning Difficulties, Other
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Cognitive psychology research translated into a bite-size summary of useful study strategies that students and teachers can put into practice right away.
Sep 27
Categories: Academic Issues, Learning Difficulties
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The part of your brain that is crucial in perceiving the intentions of others can be directly linked to the ability to clarify your own intensions and self-motivate – the dual role of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex!
Sep 26
Categories: Emotional Intelligence
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…and the 12 linked to the least satisfaction with life. A large US survey found that clergy are the happiest and most satisfied workers in America, while roofers seem to be the least satisfied with their work.
Sep 26
Categories: Happiness, Workplace Issues
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How does a person’s view change when the government takes sides on an issue? Obergefell v. Hodges’ research on the US Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling on gay marriage shows that, while their personal attitudes did not change, Americans’ ...
Sep 23
Categories: LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender) Issues
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You have decided it is time to go into psychotherapy - but how do you select a fitting counselor for you? Beginning this process may be overwhelming and confusing, but if you take these nine steps as a guideline, you will be able to find the 'right' ...
Sep 21
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, ...
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We are constantly being influenced by the language we use – even when solving tasks that seem to have nothing to do with language, like arithmetic or other math related tasks. With the help of brain activity measurements, a research team in ...
Sep 19
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According to a study by Hans Schroder from MSU measuring participants’ brain activity, simply writing about their feelings prior to a stressful task helped chronic worriers perform better on the task.
Sep 18
Categories: Stress Management
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Research suggests that exposure to nature may promote physical as well as mental well-being, and a growing number of doctors has decided to take advantage of this by prescribing visits to parks for their patients.
Sep 18
Categories: Happiness, Health / Illness / Medical Issues
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From early childhood on, children already believe that events in their lives are not purely coincidental, but that they happen for an intended reason, such as rewarding people for their good behavior. This bias of believing in karmic justice is not ...
Sep 15
Categories: Child Development
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