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The secret to successful aging

Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Deciding to stay or go is a deep-seated brain function

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even little kids picking strawberries do it.

Neuroscience created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Doing good so you don't feel bad: Neural mechanisms of guilt anticipation and cooperation

On a daily basis, our social life places us in situations where we have to decide whether or not to cooperate with others. However, the motivation that encourages us to behave cooperatively is often not clear. Now, new research ...

Neuroscience created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Professor: Pain of ostracism can be deep, long-lasting

Ostracism or exclusion may not leave external scars, but it can cause pain that often is deeper and lasts longer than a physical injury, according to a Purdue University expert.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 10, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neurological basis for embarrassment described

Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University ...

Neuroscience created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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