Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers
"Love thy neighbor" is preached from many a pulpit. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that the highly religious are less motivated by compassion when helping a stranger than are atheists, ...
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation
Experienced meditators seem to be able switch off areas of the brain associated with daydreaming as well as psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, according to a new brain imaging study by ...
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Nov 21, 2011 |
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Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, research shows
A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers.
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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Single dose of hallucinogen may create lasting personality change
A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called "magic mushrooms," was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 29, 2011 |
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A brain training exercise that really does work
(Medical Xpress) -- Forget about working crossword puzzles and listening to Mozart. If you want to improve your ability to reason and solve new problems, just take a few minutes every day to do a maddening little exercise ...
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May 30, 2011 |
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Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows
(Medical Xpress) -- We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.
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Nov 17, 2011 |
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Why near-death events are tricks of mind
Near-death experiences are not paranormal but triggered by a change in normal brain function, according to researchers.
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Nov 01, 2011 |
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Scientific evidence proves why healers see the 'aura' of people
Researchers in Spain have found that many of the individuals claiming to see the aura of people –traditionally called "healers" or "quacks"– actually present the neuropsychological phenomenon known as "synesthesia" ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 04, 2012 |
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All it takes is a smile (for some guys)
Does she or doesn't she...? Sexual cues are ambiguous, and confounding. We—especially men—often read them wrong. A new study hypothesizes that the men who get it wrong might be the ones that evolution has favored. ...
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Dec 13, 2011 |
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'Time' not necessarily deeply rooted in our brains
(Medical Xpress) -- Hidden away in the Amazonian rainforest a small tribe have successfully managed what so many dream of being able to do – to ignore the pressures of time so successfully that they don’t ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 20, 2011 |
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Homophobia linked to lack of awareness of one's sexual orientation and authoritarian parenting, study shows
Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates. The study is ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 07, 2012 |
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Human infants capable of advanced reasoning
(Medical Xpress) -- Recent research reported in PhysOrg showed that babies seem to be able to distinguish right from wrong even at the age of six months, and consistently choose helpful characters over unhe ...
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Jun 24, 2011 |
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Study shows people can guess personality via body odor
(Medical Xpress) -- An interesting study conducted by Polish researchers Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski and Andrzej Szmajke, of the University of Wroclaw, has found that people are able to guess a person’s type ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Stanford study vanquishes social anxieties without drugs
For most of his life, 24-year-old Steven Bringas so feared humiliating himself if he spoke that only an emergency would get him to enter a store.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Research reveals autistic individuals are in fact superior in multiple areas
We must stop considering the different brain structure of autistic individuals to be a deficiency, as research reveals that many autistics – not just "savants" – have qualities and abilities that may exceed those ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2011 |
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