http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—New research from social psychologists at Indiana University Bloomington suggests that feeling powerful might protect against the debilitating effects of negative stereotypes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-power-diffuse-effects-negative-stereotypes.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:05:59 EST news284814351 Negative stereotypes about boys may hinder their achievement, while assuring them that girls and boys are equally academic may help them achieve. From a very young age, children think boys are academically inferior to girls, and they believe adults think so, too. Even at these very young ages, boys' performance on an academic task is affected by messages that suggest that girls will do better than they will. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-negative-stereotypes-boys-hinder-academic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:20:01 EST news279855736 How does being in a position of power at work, with friends, or in a romantic relationship influence well-being? While we might like to believe the stereotype that power leads to unhappiness or loneliness, new research indicates that this stereotype is largely untrue: Being in a position of power may actually make people happier. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-power-good-life-closer-true.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:20:12 EST news278612403 We've all been warned not to "judge a book by its cover," but inevitably we do it anyway. It's difficult to resist the temptation of assuming that a person's outward appearance reflects something meaningful about his or her inner personality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-congenialitydo-people-traits-values.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:59:35 EST news269539158 It's thought that children grow increasingly distant and independent from their parents during their teen years. But a new longitudinal study has found that spending time with parents is important to teens' well-being. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-parents-important-teens-well-being.html Health Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:01 EST news264699755 (HealthDay) -- Think married men and women show their love in vastly different ways? Not necessarily. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-gender-difference.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:00:01 EST news262952668 (Medical Xpress) -- A small group of researchers has found that true to stereotype, people really do tend to look at women as a collection of body parts, rather than as a whole person. What’s perhaps most surprising though, is that the phenomenon is not confined to men, women do it too. The research team made up of Sarah Gervais, Theresa Vescio, Jens Förster, Anne Maass and Caterina Suitner, set out to see if the commonly held belief that women are objectified by others was true or if it was just myth. They set up experiments using undergraduate student volunteers of both genders using photographs and found, as they describe in their paper published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, that not only does the belief hold true, but that the conventional mode of viewing can be switched off given the right circumstances. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-people-view-women-body.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:00:04 EST news262424610 People make complex judgements about a person from looking at their face that are based on a range of factors beyond simply their race and gender, according to findings of new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-facial-perception-eye.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:28:40 EST news258967711 When you "lose yourself" inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fictional-character-affect-real-life.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 May 2012 13:20:17 EST news255615591 A University of Missouri researcher and his colleague have conducted a review that casts doubt on the accuracy of a popular theory that attempted to explain why there are more men than women in top levels of mathematic fields. The researchers found that numerous studies claiming that the stereotype, "men are better at math" – believed to undermine women's math performance – had major methodological flaws, utilized improper statistical techniques, and many studies had no scientific evidence of this stereotype. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-women-worse-math-men-explanation.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:05:31 EST news246114324 Men may think about sex more often than women do, but a new study suggests that men also think about other biological needs, such as eating and sleep, more frequently than women do, as well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-debunks-stereotype-men-sex-day.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:24:43 EST news241709055 Men are funnier than women, but only just barely and mostly to other men. So says a psychology study from the University of California, San Diego Division of Social Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-men-humor-hair.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:12:16 EST news238259527 The potato's stereotype as a fattening food for health-conscious folks to avoid is getting another revision today as scientists report that just a couple servings of spuds a day reduces blood pressure almost as much as oatmeal without causing weight gain. Scientists reported on the research, done on a group of overweight people with high blood pressure, at the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), being held here this week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-potatoes-blood-pressure-people-obesity.html Health Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:22:09 EST news234033606 Stereotypes about gender affect investment decision-making, even among successful women, researchers concluded in a new study on how gender affects investing strategies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-stereotypes-affect-women-angels-invest.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:40:27 EST news229873215