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Fear of the dentist is passed on to children by their parents

Fear of visiting the dentist is a frequent problem in paediatric dentistry. A new study confirms the emotional transmission of dentist fear among family members and analyses the different roles that mothers and fathers might ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neuroscientists suggest perception of harmonicity, not beating underlies perception of dissonance

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the University of Montreal and New York University suggest in a paper they've had published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that the perception of har ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

New study seeks to understand 'post-sex blues'

(Medical Xpress)—Women are invited to take part in a QUT study that is trying to understand why some people experience 'post-sex blues'.

Health created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Foggy perception slows us down

Fog is an atmospheric phenomenon that afflicts millions of drivers every day, impairing visibility and increasing the risk of an accident. The ways people respond to conditions of reduced visibility is a ...

Medical research created Oct 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can your body sense future events without any external clue?

Wouldn't it be amazing if our bodies prepared us for future events that could be very important to us, even if there's no clue about what those events will be?

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (21) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

New mechanism for antibiotic tolerance found

(Medical Xpress)—Many antibiotics can lose their ability to kill bacteria – Duke University bioengineers believe they can explain one of the reasons why.

Medical research created Oct 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

350 million people have depression in world: WHO

More than 350 million people suffer from depression globally, the World Health Organization said, ahead of World Mental Health Day on Wednesday.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ageing linked to cancer

Ageing is an unavoidable part of life, and it is often accompanied by a number of age-related illnesses. One of the biggest diseases associated with ageing is cancer, which as a result is often referred to ...

Genetics created Oct 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Our preferences change to reflect the choices we make, even three years later

You're in a store, trying to choose between similar shirts, one blue and one green. You don't feel strongly about one over the other, but eventually you decide to buy the green one. You leave the store and a market researcher ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 03, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How memory load leaves us 'blind' to new visual information

(Medical Xpress)—Trying to keep an image we've just seen in memory can leave us blind to things we are 'looking' at, according to the results of a new study supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Neuroscience created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Born to lead? No sweat

(HealthDay)—It's good to be the boss. How good? New research suggests that leaders suffer from less stress than people in less powerful positions.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Misinformation: Report shows why it sticks and how to fix it

Childhood vaccines do not cause autism. Barack Obama was born in the United States. Global warming is confirmed by science. And yet, many people believe claims to the contrary.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New study aims to train sufferers' auditory systems to 'ignore tinnitus'

An innovative multi-modal treatment programme for tinnitus will be trialled by researchers from the Centre for Brain Research at The University of Auckland, in a study made possible by a donation from Link Research and Grants.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Sexual arousal may decrease natural disgust response

Sex can be messy, but most people don't seem to mind too much, and new results reported Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE suggest that this phenomenon may result from sexual arousal actually dampening humans' natura ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4