http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Boston College Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Those who tend to say "yes" when faced with this classic dilemma are likely to be deficient in a specific kind of empathy, according to a report published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-empathy-key-role-moral-judgments.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 May 2013 04:58:03 EST news288417470 The importance of play—crucial for children's healthy psychological development and ability to thrive in life—is woefully underestimated by parents and educators, according to Peter Gray, a Boston College developmental psychologist and author of the new book Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-free-vital-children-healthy-psychologist.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:47:38 EST news281619992 Getting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences may lead to improved moral behavior, Boston College researchers report in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-moral-realism-behavior.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:55:35 EST news278682924 A new study that looked at more than 75,000 children in day care in Norway found little evidence that the amount of time a child spends in child care leads to an increase in behavioral problems, according to researchers from the United States and Norway. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-links-day-behavioral-issues.html Pediatrics Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:26:43 EST news277658797 The clock is ticking and you still haven't decided what to get that special someone in your life for the holidays. When it comes to those last-minute gift-buying decisions for family and close friends, intuition may be the best way to think your way through to that perfect gift. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-intuition-christmas-gift-dilemmas.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:47:15 EST news275240827 Researchers from Boston College have discovered a protein that plays a pivotal role in the progression of the deadly diseases toxoplasmosis and malaria and shown that its function could be genetically blocked in order to halt the progress of the parasite-borne illnesses, the team reports in the current edition of the journal Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-protein-deadly-disease-carrier.html Medical research Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:50:01 EST news245601139 Research conducted by Boston College neuroscientist Sean MacEvoy and colleague Russell Epstein of the University of Pennsylvania finds evidence of a new way of considering how the brain processes and recognizes a person's surroundings, according to a paper published in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-neuroimaging-brain-scenes.html Neuroscience Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:46:54 EST news235154804 Multitaskers who think they can successfully divide their attention between the program on their television set and the information on their computer screen proved to be driven to distraction by the two devices, according to a new study of media multitasking by Boston College researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-media-multitasking-multi-distracting.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 02 May 2011 04:13:19 EST news223528374