News tagged with psychologists
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Study examines use of mobile technology to improve diet, physical activity behavior
A new study, supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, suggests that a combination of mobile technology and remote coaching holds promise in encouraging ...
Health
May 28, 2012 |
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Parents are happier than non-parents, new research suggests
New research by psychologists at three North American universities, including the University of British Columbia, finds that parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning from life than non-parents.
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 17, 2012 |
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Teaching creativity to children from a galaxy away
Playing make-believe is more than a childhood pasttime. According to psychologists, it's also crucial to building creativity, giving a child the ability to consider alternative realities and perspectives. And this type of ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 17, 2012 |
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Religion replenishes self-control
There are many theories about why religion exists, most of them unproven. Now, in an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Kevin Rounding of Queen' ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 14, 2012 |
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Psychologist: Achievement goals can be shaped by environment
A new study by Stanford psychologist Paul O'Keefe suggests that the culture of our learning and working environments can have long-term effects on our goals and motivation.
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 11, 2012 |
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Psychologists reveal how emotion can shut down high-level mental processes without our knowledge
Psychologists at Bangor University believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. Writing in ...
Neuroscience
May 08, 2012 |
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Happiness model developed by MU researcher could help people go from good to great
The sayings "variety is the spice of life" and "happiness isn't getting what you want, but wanting what you get" seem to have a psychological basis, according to a new study by an MU psychologist who identified two keys to ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 07, 2012 |
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Parents cautioned over 'common' brain injury
A newly developed paediatric concussion kit will help parents identify crucial signs of traumatic brain injury (TBI), one of the leading causes of acquired disability and death in children.
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Apr 27, 2012 |
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Am I crazy? Talking to yourself has cognitive benefits, study says
"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening." - Franklin P. Jones
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Jealousy of eldest child can be predicted before birth of younger sibling
Parents who play with a doll and then ignore their child, elicit the same jealous behavior in the child as a newborn brother or sister can do later. The lack of attention from the mother elicits more jealousy from the child ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Symptoms that mimic epilepsy linked to stress, poor coping skills
Based on their clinical experience and observations, a team of Johns Hopkins physicians and psychologists say that more than one-third of the patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital's inpatient epilepsy monitoring ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 10, 2012 |
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uok? Text messages - even automated ones - can soothe the disconnected soul
(Medical Xpress) -- Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 10, 2012 |
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You, revealed: 'X-Rays of the Soul' examines history, influence of Rorschach test
With the creation, in 1921, of the Rorschach inkblot test, psychologists and researchers had at their disposal a tool that might offer access to the inner life or “secret self” of a subject: the ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 03, 2012 |
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Now it's official: beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
French scientists say they have confirmed the folklore that a glass in your hand will make you feel sexier, smarter and funnier, even when others privately think you are a turkey.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Mental health workers: The overlooked victims of 9/11
We've all heard about the stress experienced by victims of 9/11, but have we ever paused to think about the effect of those terrorist attacks on mental health clinicians who provided care to the victims? A new study by Mary ...
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Mar 27, 2012 |
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