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Frozen in time: Clarifying laws on IVF embryo use and destruction

Over the past two decades, the frozen preservation of embryos has become routine practice in IVF. What currently happens to embryos next is controlled by overlapping and complicated rules that confuse and ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created May 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds Asian-Americans often feel racial 'microaggressions'

(Medical Xpress)—Asian-Americans experience considerable everyday prejudice and discrimination, reports a Cornell study published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology (Vol. 60:2). The study is one of the first to doc ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Preference to save the best for last fades with age, study finds

Will you save the best chocolate in the box until last? Do you want the good news first or the bad? Your preferences may depend on your age, reports a Cornell study published in Psychology and Aging.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A loved one's support can backfire, study finds

People who receive high levels of emotional support from their partner have an increased risk of death if they perceive their partner as not caring, understanding and validating, reports a Cornell study published in Health Ps ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Texting doesn't replace the feel-good effects of talking, study says

(HealthDay)—It's hard to quibble with the speed and convenience of connecting through texts and instant messages, but scientists say that today's ubiquitous online social communication may not confer the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Online message boards provide outlets for mothers' concerns, researcher says

Parenting infants and toddlers can be challenging, and for generations, mothers have turned to other moms for advice. Now, with the availability of the Internet, mothers are consulting each other using modern venues: online ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study suggests humans are slowly but surely losing intellectual and emotional abilities

Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. A provocative hypothesis published in a recent set of Science and Society ...

Genetics created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (37) | comments 78 | with audio podcast

The knowing nose: Chemosignals communicate human emotions

(Medical Xpress)—Many animal species transmit information via chemical signals, but the extent to which these chemosignals play a role in human communication is unclear. In a new study published in Psychological Science, a jour ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 05, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Singing in the brain

What does anger sound like? What music does sorrow imply? Human emotion is being given a new soundtrack thanks to an exciting new collaboration between art and neuroscience.

Other created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists erase fear from the brain

Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. This is shown by researchers from Uppsala University in a new study now being published by the academic journal Science. The findings may represent a brea ...

Neuroscience created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Theory: Music underlies language acquisition

(Medical Xpress)—Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and the University ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds emotion reversed in left-handers' brains

The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains, according to a recent study published in PLoS ONE by psychologists Geoffrey Brookshire and Daniel Casasanto of The New School for Social Resear ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What can animals' survival instincts tell us about understanding human emotion?

Can animals' survival instincts shed additional light on what we know about human emotion? New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux poses this question in outlining a pioneering theory, drawn from two decades of research, ...

Neuroscience created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

How the use of smartphones can revolutionize research in cognitive science

Smartphones may be the new hot tool in cognitive psychology research, according to a paper in the online journal PLoS ONE.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Older adults more willing to wait for gains

Older adults, compared with younger adults, tend to report they are more upbeat and that their emotions and mental health do not interfere with their work and social life. That better mental health allows them to wait longer ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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