http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—You may be more than a single number, according to a team of Western-led researchers. Considered a standard gauge of intelligence, an intelligence quotient (IQ) score doesn't actually provide an accurate measure of one's intellect, according to a landmark study – the largest of its kind – led by Adrian Owen of the Brain and Mind Institute at Western. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-debunking-iq-myth.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 07 May 2013 07:30:37 EST news287130628 paying attention to one's current experience in a non-judgmental way—might help us to learn more about our own personalities, according to a new article published in the March 2013 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-thyself-mindfulness-self-knowledge.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:10:59 EST news282496251 Decision-making is an inevitable part of the human experience, and one of the most mysterious. For centuries, scientists have studied how we go about the difficult task of choosing A or B, left or right, North or South—and how both instinct and intellect figure into the process. Now new research indicates that the old truism "look before you leap" may be less true than previously thought. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-decisions-based-instinct-surprisingly-positive.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:03:42 EST news271602193 Bad news articles in the media increase women's sensitivity to stressful situations, but do not have a similar effect on men, according to a study undertaken by University of Montreal researchers at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress of Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-negative-news-stories-affect-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:00:02 EST news269106053 (Medical Xpress)—Pretend play can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study, published in a recent online edition of the journal Psychological Bulletin, finds that it is not as crucial to a child's development as currently believed. Pretend play is any play a child engages in, alone, with playmates, or with adults, that involves uses of the imagination to create a fantasy world or situation, such as making toy cars go "vrrooooom" or making dolls talk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-crucial-child-believed.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:43:40 EST news265383809