Family fun often means new activities and destinations but a new study suggests leisure time spent at home in familiar pastimes may be a better route to happiness.
Date Posted: October 19, 2016
Categories: Family Problems, Happiness
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Devastating mistakes by eyewitnesses are not rare, according to a report by the Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating those wrongfully convicted of crimes. Since the 1990s, when DNA testing was first introduced, Innocence ...
Oct 18
Categories: Other
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Depression
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Psychology / Psychiatry
High status job means you are less likely to respond to treatment for depression
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Oct 18
Categories: Adult psychological development, Depression, Workplace Issues
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Eating disorders are much more common among women than men. Now, a new study may have uncovered a neurological explanation for this disparity. Researchers find that women are more likely than men to experience brain activity relating to negative ...
Oct 17
Categories: Eating Disorders
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Singapore has one of the longest working hours in the world, clocking in 88 hours every two work weeks. At the same time, its people are unhappy, citing a lack of work-life balance and stress.
Oct 17
Categories: Happiness, Workplace Issues
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One particular type of mental exercise may succeed at doing what nothing else has before: putting off dementia. A new, 10-year study showed that speed training - computer exercises that get users to visually process information more quickly - beat ...
Oct 15
Categories: Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia, Dementia
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When there’s a lot on the line - a big presentation or a tough negotiation - some people manage to stay cool under pressure, while others have a meltdown. In a new study, a team of psychological scientists from Texas A&M University examined ...
Oct 15
Categories: Personality problems, Stress Management
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Oct 14
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Researchers may have found a new way to combat sexual aggression. The causes of sexual aggression are many, but anecdotal evidence and research-based evidence, suggests that at least part of it has to do with when men overestimate women's levels of ...
Oct 13
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Sexual Abuse
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Can you think a thought which isn't yours? A remarkable new study, led by psychologist Jay Olson from McGill University in Canada, suggests you can. The research, published in Consciousness and Cognition, used a form of stage magic known as ...
Oct 13
Categories: Hypnosis
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How much do experiences in one part of our lives have effects that spill into other, seemingly separate domains? One obvious candidate is the football team you follow - it's a distinctive arena that matters greatly for many people and involves a ...
Oct 12
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Therapies that focus on changing behaviors are just as effective as those that modify thoughts in managing the debilitating mood disorder.
Oct 12
Categories: Depression
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The number of children referred to the NHS with gender identity issues has increased more than tenfold over the past six years. The latest figures from the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) revealed that 969 under-18s in the UK have been ...
Oct 11
Categories: Gender Identity disorder
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All people, at times, fill up with grief, spill over with joy, or tremble with anger. Most of us are taught early on to manage these emotions by sharing and reveling in the positive ones, while repressing or apologizing for the negative ones. Either ...
Oct 11
Categories: Happiness
GOHere's a video on 5 things you can start to do right now to help reduce and relieve anxiety. Following these tips on how to ...
Oct 10
Categories: Anxiety
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Procrastination — we are all guilty of it. Irrationally delaying a task in day-to-day life can have minor effects, such as lost sleep from staying up late to meet a deadline, but it can also be detrimental. From a health perspective, waiting to go ...
Oct 10
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