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Teens tell different tales about themselves depending on gender
During adolescence, the stories young people tell about themselves reflects their development of a personal identity and sense of self, and those autobiographical narratives vary depending on the teens' gender, according ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 05, 2012 |
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Expressing your emotions can reduce fear: study
(Medical Xpress)—Can simply describing your feelings at stressful times make you less afraid and less anxious? A new UCLA psychology study suggests that labeling your emotions at the precise moment you ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 04, 2012 |
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Brain imaging reveals reduced brain connections in people with generalized anxiety disorder
(Medical Xpress)—A new University of Wisconsin-Madison imaging study shows the brains of people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have weaker connections between a brain structure that controls emotional response ...
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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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 |
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Great expectations: Interpretation of positive or negative information is all a matter of anticipation, psychologist say
(Medical Xpress) -- Each month a new jobs report is issued in the United States. Each month the report is also met with criticism even if jobs are added.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 21, 2012 |
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Vaccinations belong on parents' back-to-school checklists
(HealthDay) -- Vaccinations among school-aged children can save lives and parents should be sure their children are fully immunized as part of their back-to-school preparations, according to a pediatric infectious ...
Health
Aug 20, 2012 |
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New hope for trauma sufferers with addictions
(Medical Xpress) -- A world-first study of an integrated treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use, led by researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 16, 2012 |
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Psychologists compare learning achievement with and without stress
Stressed and non-stressed persons use different brain regions and different strategies when learning. This has been reported by the cognitive psychologists PD Dr. Lars Schwabe and Professor Oliver Wolf from the Ruhr-Universität ...
Neuroscience
Aug 08, 2012 |
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CCNY psychologist offers guide to utilizing projective tests
(Medical Xpress) -- “If I hold up a coffee mug and ask you to tell me what it is, it is easy for you to give me the correct answer, but you haven’t revealed anything about yourself,” says City ...
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Aug 07, 2012 |
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Cyberbullying less frequent than traditional bullying, according to international studies
Traditional in-person bullying is far more common than cyberbullying among today's youth and should be the primary focus of prevention programs, according to research findings presented at the American Psychological Association's ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2012 |
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Parents get physical with unruly kids, study finds
Parents get physical with their misbehaving children in public much more than they show in laboratory experiments and acknowledge in surveys, according to one of the first real-world studies of caregiver discipline.
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Aug 03, 2012 |
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Are Computer Tutors the key to learning for Autistic pupils?
A series of open days for school pupils with autism have been held at the University following a three-year-long project funded by EPSRC during which researchers worked with the youngsters to develop a computer-based ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Jul 27, 2012 |
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How to discuss the Aurora shootings with kids
Details of the tragic shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., continue to flood the media. Richard Rende, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University ...
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Jul 26, 2012 |
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Force of habit: Stress hormones switch off areas of the brain for goal-directed behaviour
Cognition psychologists at the Ruhr-Universität together with colleagues from the University Hospital Bergmannsheil (Prof. Dr. Martin Tegenthoff) have discovered why stressed persons are more likely to lapse back into ...
Neuroscience
Jul 25, 2012 |
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Patients with disassociative identity disorder do remember separate identity
(Medical Xpress) -- An exchange of knowledge is possible between the separate identities of people with an disassociative identity disorder (DID). This is apparent from experiments by NWO researcher Rafaele Huntjens from ...
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