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Belief in God may significantly improve the outcome of those receiving short-term treatment for psychiatric illness, according to a recent study conducted by McLean Hospital investigators. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-faith-god-positively-treatment-individuals.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EST news286045296 It goes against popular belief, but a recent study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) shows that the southern region of the United States is not the fattest part of the country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-south-fattest.html Health Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:50:01 EST news284973954 Yoga has positive effects on mild depression and sleep complaints, even in the absence of drug treatments, and improves symptoms associated with schizophrenia and ADHD in patients on medication, according to a systematic review of the exercise on major clinical psychiatric disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-frontiers-publishes-systematic-effects-yoga.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:00:01 EST news278273098 Almost everyone teaches their children that lying is always wrong. But the vast majority of parents lie to their children in order to get them to behave, according to new research published in the International Journal of Psychology.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-tooth-fairy-real-parents-china.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:58:34 EST news278056709 (Medical Xpress)—When it comes to Santa Claus, a Kansas State University expert says let children believe in the jolly old elf as long as they want. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-tis-season-family-expert-parents.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:48:10 EST news274607281 Despite the popular belief among parents that having children shortens their lives, the reverse seems to be true, particularly for women, indicates a large study of childless couples, treated for infertility, and published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-death-high-childless-couples.html Health Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:30:03 EST news273948174 There is a popular belief that sexual orientation can be revealed by pupil dilation to attractive people, yet until now there was no scientific evidence. For the first time, researchers at Cornell University used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes to participants watching erotic videos. Pupils were highly telling: they widened most to videos of people who participants found attractive, thereby revealing where they were on the sexual spectrum from heterosexual to homosexual. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-pupil-dilation-reveals-sexual.html Other Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:04:15 EST news263433848 Belief in God or other higher powers may be crucially linked to humans' cognitive ability to infer other peoples' mental states, called "theory of mind" or "mentalizing," according to research published May 30 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-belief-god-ability-mentalize.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 30 May 2012 17:00:04 EST news257609928 There are many theories about why religion exists, most of them unproven. Now, in an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Kevin Rounding of Queen's University, Ontario, offers a new idea, and some preliminary evidence to back it up. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-religion-replenishes-self-control.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 14 May 2012 16:57:30 EST news256233435 A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-analytic-decrease-religious-belief.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:00:01 EST news254665532 (Medical Xpress) -- Despite widespread belief to the contrary, as few as 6 percent of women experience cancer-related persistent fatigue a year after undergoing treatment for breast cancer, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-post-cancer-fatigue-overestimated.html Cancer Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:40:28 EST news254644820 or inactions? This was the key question behind recent studies led by Case Western Reserve University psychologist Julie Exline. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-protest-god-perspectives-cwru-psychology.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:02 EST news251977686 Aging does not appear to be a factor in poor sleep, a new survey of more than 150,000 Americans shows. In fact, subjective sleep quality seems to improve over a lifetime, with the fewest complaints coming from people in their 80s. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-age-worse.html Health Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:38:40 EST news249799110 As you are weighing whether or not to go to church services this Christmas, consider this: Does a belief in God confer any health benefits? With the help of a large Norwegian longitudinal health study called HUNT, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) were able to find a clear relationship between time spent in church and lower blood pressure in both women and men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-beliefs-hypertension.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:59:20 EST news244146925 Contrary to what many psychological scientists think, people do not all have the same set of biologically "basic" emotions, and those emotions are not automatically expressed on the faces of those around us, according to the author of a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. This means a recent move to train security workers to recognize "basic" emotions from expressions might be misguided. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-darwin-wrong-emotions.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:32:49 EST news243012684 Intuition may lead people toward a belief in the divine and help explain why some people have more faith in God than others, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-intuitive-belief-god.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:26:46 EST news235740388