Scientists say the more foreign languages we learn, the more effectively our brain reacts and processes the data accumulated in the course of learning. Scientists from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) together with colleagues from the University of Helsinki have discovered that learning foreign languages enhances the our brain's elasticity and ...
Date Posted: September 6, 2016
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We all know the kind of person who did really well at school and uni but can't seem to help themselves from forever making bad mistakes in real life. And then there are those characters who might not be surgeons or rocket scientists but have this ...
Sep 5
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Childhood bullying inflicts the same long-term psychological trauma on girls as severe physical or sexual abuse, suggests a new survey of college students.
Sep 5
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Most people in a romantic relationship yearn for a passionate sex life. At the beginning of the relationship - the heady honeymoon phase, the days of early elation - passionate sex usually comes easily. Alas, over time routine sets in with the wear ...
Sep 3
Categories: Happiness, Relationships & Marriage
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Mindful eating invites participants to "pay attention" to the food in front of them and engage their five senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch) before consuming a single morsel. This mindfulness practice builds the children's awareness of ...
Sep 3
Categories: Eating Disorders, Health Psychology, Mindfulness
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Imagine two candidates at a high stakes job interview. One of them handles the pressure with ease and sails through the interview. The other candidate, however, feels very nervous and under-performs.
Why do some people perform better than others ...
Sep 2
Categories: Child Development, Stress Management
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The right mood music can influence how well people work together, a new management-oriented study suggests.
Many retail establishments carefully select the music they play in order to influence consumer behavior, such as encouraging shoppers to buy ...
Sep 2
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Dopamine is a so-called messenger substance or neurotransmitter that conveys signals between neurons. It not only controls mental and emotional responses but also motor reactions. Dopamine is particularly known as being the "happy hormone".
Sep 2
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If you're speaking to me, it's not just what you say but how you say it that matters. A new study finds that dogs also pick up on these important, yet separate details. And there's more. Not only does this study add to our knowledge of how dogs ...
Sep 1
Categories: Other
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The power of non-sexual touching by women lies in the fact that both men and women respond positively to warmth and friendliness from women, but not necessarily from men. Touch can affect people’s tendency to comply with requests (a phenomenon ...
Sep 1
Categories: Emotional Intelligence, Other
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Scientists already knew that getting some decent shut-eye after studying helps to consolidate learning, but new research suggests that sleeping in between study sessions is even more effective.
Aug 31
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We all know that we can quickly lose cardiovascular endurance if we stop exercising for a few weeks, but what impact does the cessation of exercise have on our brains?
Aug 31
Categories: Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia
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First, it is important to ask how IQ and health could be connected. Social components are relatively obvious: lower IQ might mean lower level of knowledge about healthy living, for instance. Also, the gradual progression of some chronic diseases may ...
Aug 31
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Conventional notions have described aging as an ongoing process of physical and cognitive decline, with mental health mirroring the downward trend. However, a new study by researchers at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine ...
Aug 30
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Happiness, Life Purpose / Meaning / ...
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Why do some people want to live a very long time, while others would prefer to die relatively young? In a latest study, a team of researchers investigated how long young and middle-aged adults in the United States say they want to live in relation ...
Aug 30
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Health Psychology, Life Purpose / ...
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When strangers meet, they jump to a lot of conclusions about each other extremely quickly - a process that psychologists call "thin slicing" in reference to the thinness of the evidence upon which such sweeping inferences are made. For instance, ...
Aug 29
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