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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Children find human-made objects more likely to be owned than natural objects
Children as young as 3 are likely to say that things made by humans have owners, but that natural objects, such as pine cones and sea shells, are not owned, according to a new study published by the American Psychological ...
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Oct 06, 2011 |
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You can wash away your troubles, with soap
"Wash away my troubles, wash away my pain," goes the song. Is there such a thing as soap and water for the psyche? Yes: Metaphor is that powerful, say Spike W.S. Lee and Norbert Schwarz of the University of Michigan in a ...
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Oct 05, 2011 |
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New study finds familiarity increases the fullness that children expect from snack foods
New research, led by psychologists at the University of Bristol, has found that children who are familiar with a snack food will expect it to be more filling. This finding, published (online ahead of print) in the American Jo ...
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Oct 03, 2011 |
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NY to require benching students with concussions
(AP) -- Starting next year, a new law in New York says student athletes suspected of suffering concussions should be immediately removed from games.
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Sep 30, 2011 |
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English court in landmark right-to-die ruling
An English judge ruled on Wednesday that a brain-damaged, minimally conscious woman should not be allowed to die, in a landmark case about the right to life-supporting treatment.
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Sep 28, 2011 |
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Ethnic, gender stereotypes bias treatment of Parkinson's disease
Cultural, ethnic and gender stereotypes can significantly distort clinical judgments about "facially masked" patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a newly published study from researchers at Tufts University, Brandeis ...
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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Research shows sleepyheads more than grumpy
(Medical Xpress) -- Sleepiness negatively impacts mood and impairs the integration of emotion and cognition when making moral judgments, even to the extent of planning revenge, a UALR psychology professor said in a research ...
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Jun 21, 2011 |
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Moral responses change as people age
Moral responses change as people age says a new study from the University of Chicago.
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Jun 03, 2011 |
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Changes in brain circuitry play role in moral sensitivity as people grow up
(Medical Xpress) -- People's moral responses to similar situations change as they age, according to a new study at the University of Chicago that combined brain scanning, eye-tracking and behavioral measures ...
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May 27, 2011 |
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Uintentional racial biases may affect economic and trust decisions, psychologists find
Psychologists have found that people may make economic and trust decisions based on unconscious or unintentional racial biases. The study, conducted in the laboratory of New York University Professor Elizabeth Phelps, is ...
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Apr 25, 2011 |
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Serotonin: A critical chemical for human intimacy and romance
The judgments we make about the intimacy of other couples' relationships appear to be influenced by the brain chemical serotonin, reports a new study published in Biological Psychiatry.
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Apr 14, 2011 |
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How do life-threatening medical conditions in children impact quality of life?
How do we assess the current and future quality of life (QoL) for infants and children with life-threatening conditions? In the April issue of Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, "The Quality of Lif ...
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Apr 12, 2011 |
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Some people's climate beliefs shift with weather
Social scientists are struggling with a perplexing earth-science question: as the power of evidence showing manmade global warming is rising, why do opinion polls suggest public belief in the findings is wavering? Part of ...
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Apr 06, 2011 |
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