Study demonstrates how fear can skew spatial perception
That snake heading towards you may be further away than it appears. Fear can skew our perception of approaching objects, causing us to underestimate the distance of a threatening one, finds a study published in Current Bi ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 22, 2012 |
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Calling Miss Congeniality—do attractive people have attractive traits and values?
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 ...
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Oct 15, 2012 |
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Appellate court: Idaho abortion law likely illegal
(AP)—The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says some Idaho abortion laws are likely unconstitutional, including one barring medication-induced abortions. But the judges didn't pass judgment on Idaho's fetal pain law, saying ...
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Sep 11, 2012 |
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Zurich children's hospital lifts ban on circumcision
A Swiss hospital announced Friday that it has lifted a moratorium on religiously-motivated circumcisions imposed in July in the wake of a court ruling in neighbouring Germany.
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Aug 10, 2012 |
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Internists recommend principles on role of governments in regulating patient-physician relationship
The American College of Physicians (ACP) today released a paper, Statement of Principles on the Role of Governments in Regulating the Patient-Physician Relationship, which recommends principles for the role of federal and ...
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Aug 08, 2012 |
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MoleMate cancer tester 'less accurate' than doctors' eyes
(Medical Xpress) -- Differentiating melanomas from other pigmented skin lesions in primary care is challenging - but a device used by Australian and British doctors to determine whether a patient has a melanoma has been found ...
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Jul 24, 2012 |
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Infants can't distinguish between large and small groups: study
Human brains process large and small numbers of objects using two different mechanisms, but infants have not yet developed the ability to make those two processes work together, according to new research from the University ...
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Jun 19, 2012 |
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'Gaydar' automatic and more accurate for women's faces, psychologists find
After seeing faces for less than a blink of an eye, college students have accuracy greater than mere chance in judging others' sexual orientation. Their "gaydar" persisted even when they saw the photos upside-down, and gay ...
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May 16, 2012 |
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Inside the brains of jurors: Neuroscientists reveal brain activity associated with mitigating criminal sentences
(Medical Xpress) -- When jurors sentencing convicted criminals are instructed to weigh not only facts but also tricky emotional factors, they rely on parts of the brain associated with sympathy and making ...
Neuroscience
Mar 28, 2012 |
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AABB releases new guidelines for red blood cell transfusion
AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks) recommends a restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategy for stable adults and children, according to new guidelines being published in Annals of Internal Me ...
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Mar 26, 2012 |
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ASTRO develops brain metastases guideline
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has developed a guideline on the radiotherapeutic and surgical management for newly diagnosed brain metastases. It has been published in Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO), ...
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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Research finds children with social phobia are judged less attractive
(Medical Xpress) -- A recent study from the Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, has found children with social phobia are judged as less attractive and are less liked by their peers, than children ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Study shows left side of brain more active in immoral thinking
(Medical Xpress) -- Because the brain is so complex, researchers are forced to devise all manner of different types of tests in trying to understand not just how it works, but which parts of it do what. To ...
Neuroscience
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Peer pressure in preschool children
Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better. Researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 25, 2011 |
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New buzzwords 'reduce medicine to economics'
Physicians who once only grappled with learning the language of medicine must now also cope with a health care world that has turned hospitals into factories and reduced clinical encounters to economic transactions, two Beth ...
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Oct 12, 2011 |
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