Nearly all of us have bang-our-head-against-the-wall stories about our kids acting entitled. We've tried what feels like everything to ...
Date Posted: October 14, 2016
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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A relatively new class of drugs, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, have had much success in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Now, these drugs may offer support in the treatment of addiction and drug abuse.
Oct 7
Categories: Addictions
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If you were old enough to see a PG-13 movie in 1997, chances are you went to see Titanic. And chances are you cried. You might have even seen the film multiple times, doing your part to make it the highest-grossing sob fest in movie history. Now, a ...
Oct 7
Categories: Relationships & Marriage, Social Anxiety / Phobia
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Regular users of cannabis are less aware of their own mistakes, and they are not good at creative thinking. This is the conclusion drawn by psychologist Mikael Kowal from his research on the effects of cannabis.
Oct 6
Categories: Creative Blocks, Drug Addiction
GOWatch this video in which Psychology heavy weight Dr. Peter Fonagy is interviewed about Mentalization - a field he helped ...
Oct 6
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Reporting in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, psychology researchers recorded the brain activity of people looking at disturbing pictures immediately after meditating for the first time. These participants were able to tame their ...
Oct 5
Categories: Meditation, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex ...
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In a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology explores the way that female managers are appraised when they treat others unjustly. The research suggests that while the sexes are treated even-handedly when they commit certain injustices, there ...
Oct 5
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Many well-regarded leaders appear to find success through psychopathic traits - namely, fearlessness, social influence and immunity to stress. However, research suggests that leaders who also possess psychopathy's negative characteristics - ...
Oct 4
Categories: Other
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