News tagged with intellect

Debunking the IQ myth

(Medical Xpress)—You may be more than a single number, according to a team of Western-led researchers. Considered a standard gauge of intelligence, an intelligence quotient (IQ) score doesn't actually provide ...

Psychology & Psychiatry May 07, 2013 | 3 / 5 (27) | 28 |

Know thyself: How mindfulness can improve self-knowledge

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 Sc ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Mar 14, 2013 | 5 / 5 (6) | 1 |

Decisions based on instinct have surprisingly positive outcomes, researcher finds

Decision-making is an inevitable part of the human experience, and one of the most mysterious. For centuries, scientists have studied how we go about the difficult task of choosing A or B, left or right, North or South—and ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Nov 08, 2012 | 3.3 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Negative news stories affect women's stress levels but not men's

Bad news articles in the media increase women's sensitivity to stressful situations, but do not have a similar effect on men, according to a study undertaken by University of Montreal researchers at the Centre for Studies ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 10, 2012 | 4 / 5 (4) | 1 |

Pretend play may not be as crucial to child development as believed, new study shows

(Medical Xpress)—Pretend play can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study, published in a recent online edition of the journal Psychological Bulletin, finds that it is not as crucial to a c ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Aug 28, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |