http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A study that was presented in Nature last year attracted a great deal of attention when it asserted that intuition promotes cooperation. But a group of researchers in behavioral and neuroeconomics at Linköping University say that this is not true, in a new study now being published in Nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-rebuts-willingness-cooperate-intuitive.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:38:05 EST news289665473 The word intuition is derived from the Latin intueor – to see; intuition is thus often invoked to explain how the mind can "see" answers to problems or decisions in the absence of explicit reasoning – a "gut reaction". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-intuition.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 03 May 2013 08:33:08 EST news286788717 A study led by Zachary Mainen, Director of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, and published today (March 28) in the scientific journal, Neuron, reports that when rats were challenged with a series of perceptual decision problems, their performance was just as good when they decided rapidly as when they took a much longer time to respond. Despite being encouraged to slow down and try harder, the subjects of this study achieved their maximum performance in less than 300 milliseconds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-decisions.html Neuroscience Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:32:46 EST news283692760 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 (Medical Xpress)—People assigned to positions of power tend to dehumanize those in less powerful positions even when the roles are randomly assigned, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-power-dehumanization.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:40:01 EST news281863333 An international consortium led by researchers at the Laboratory of Biomechanical Engineering of the MIRA research institute of the University of Twente is developing a system that allows surgeons to plan complex musculo-skeletal operations. In essence, the system is a patient-specific navigation tool for the human body, in which all relevant X-ray and MRI images of a patient are linked together. The surgeon can thus plan the operation much more effectively, simulate the effects of an intervention and even practice in advance in a virtual environment. The consortium has completed the first prototype of the system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-prototype-human-body-surgeons-virtual.html Surgery Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:50:02 EST news281262245 (Medical Xpress)—Some retailers, such as Apple's iTunes, are known for using uniform pricing in an effort to simplify consumers' choices and perhaps increase their tendency to make impulse purchases. But other stores, like supermarkets, often have small price differences across product flavors and brands. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-small-price-differences-options-similar.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:38:15 EST news276968230 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