Accepting a free sample triggers deep psychological responses that make us more susceptible to spending money.
Date Posted: April 25, 2016
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Studies show that dancing at parties and in groups encourages social bonding. Many researchers have argued that people experience a blurring of the self into their groups thanks to the synchronization that occurs while dancing. Yet it is also ...
Apr 25
Categories: Dance Therapy
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Being grateful helps to increase self-control and reduce impulsive behaviours, new research finds.
People who cultivate gratitude towards everyday events are also more patient.
Apr 25
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Exceptional intelligence is a double-edged sword for most kids, especially teens, who often find the pressure to succeed both intoxicating and suffocating. It is often the duality of these polar opposites that give smart teens the gift of success ...
Apr 23
Categories: Teenage Issues
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Emotions "seek to serve and empower us to explore the world safely and make meaning of our experience in it," said Deb Hannaford, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Pasadena and Monrovia, Calif. Emotions are valuable sources of information. ...
Apr 23
Categories: Mindfulness
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Researchers from the University of Liverpool and Florida State University College of Medicine have conducted a study on the effect the misperception of a child's weight by their parents can have on a child's actual weight.
Apr 22
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Psychologists have got a clear idea of how we’re influenced by the big emotional states. Feeling positive encourages an explorative cognitive style that is risk-tolerant and well suited to the open aspects of creativity, whereas negative emotions ...
Apr 22
Categories: Emotional Intelligence
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Lowering the pitch of your voice in the first few seconds of an interaction can help you influence others, new research finds.
Apr 22
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In an article for Geelong Surf Coast Living magazine, Colleen Morris, a counsellor and family therapist, was interviewed about the impact separation has on the family, and, in particular, children. Here are six valuable facts about separation ...
Apr 22
Categories: Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
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A short breathing exercise is enough to refocus the minds of highly distracted people, new research finds.
Apr 21
Categories: Mindfulness
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Science now suggests that how we dress may just be the difference between giving ourselves the extra edge in our professional and personal lives.
Apr 19
Categories: Self-Confidence
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Moodiness, irritability and isolation are often hallmarks of teenage growing pains, so it can be hard to realize where the line begins for mood disorders. So, how do parents know if their child is just going through teenage angst or dealing with a ...
Apr 19
Categories: Depression, Teenage Issues
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A study tests effects of mental imagery on memory.
Apr 19
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge concluded in a study released this month that money can indeed buy happiness. But the joy isn't from how much money you have, but rather how you spend it.
Apr 18
Categories: Happiness
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If you want to keep your brain young, you could do a lot worse than taking up meditation. That's if you believe the results of a new study in NeuroImage that's found experienced meditators have brains that appear 7.5 years younger, on average, than ...
Apr 16
Categories: Meditation
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University of Texas at Arlington researchers have found that by age 3 environmental influences such as parenting are relevant factors in the development of toddlers' self-control when they are asked not to do something they want to do, such as run ...
Apr 16
Categories: Child Development
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