http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As Jane Austen probably wanted to say, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good Black Sabbath CD must be in want of a shotgun. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-ti-od-em-edam-natas.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:52:18 EST news284806331 On average, young newlyweds who are satisfied with their marriage gain weight in the early years after they exchange vows, putting them at increased risk for various health problems related to being overweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-marriage-threaten-health-newlyweds-gain.html Health Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:48:57 EST news284226530 (Medical Xpress)—"Science is broken; let's fix it," says the University of Sydney's Associate Professor Alex Holcombe, who is part of a major new effort to improve the reliability of psychological research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-approach-relevance.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:30:01 EST news281688770 (Medical Xpress)—Imagine your smartphone becoming a mobile medical laboratory that records and sends data for a range of research. That will soon be a reality thanks to the expertise and impatience of a University of Sydney PhD candidate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-smartphones-mini-medical-labs-smart.html Medical research Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:20:01 EST news273913265 Teaching students of all ages about the value of diversity and the serious mental health impacts of bias and stereotyping will help end widespread discrimination in the United States, according to a new American Psychological Association task force report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-apa-task-outlines-actions-discrimination.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:50:44 EST news252075036 Feeling angry and annoyed with others is a daily part of life, but most people don't act on these impulses. What keeps us from punching line-cutters or murdering conniving co-workers? Self-control. A new review article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, examines the psychological research and finds that it's possible to deplete self-control—or to strengthen it by practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-limit-aggression-self-control.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:31:58 EST news250428708 Psychological research has found that religious people feel great about themselves, with a tendency toward higher social self-esteem and better psychological adjustment than non-believers. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that this is only true in countries that put a high value on religion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-religious-people-adjusted-psychologically.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:53:45 EST news246214411 Almost everyone has experienced one memory triggering another, but explanations for that phenomenon have proved elusive. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have provided the first neurobiological evidence that memories formed in the same context become linked, the foundation of the theory of episodic memory. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-neural-signature-mental.html Neuroscience Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:51:13 EST news230226651 (Medical Xpress) -- Can graphic images persuade people to make lasting changes to their behavior? The answer, according to psychological research, is probably not. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-fda-graphic-cigarette-images.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:22:42 EST news228126145