News tagged with self consciousness


Study identifies 5 factors that promote a positive body image in women

Women with high family support and limited pressure to achieve the 'thin and beautiful' ideal have a more positive body image. That's according to a new study looking at five factors that may help young women to be more positive ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A helping hand for prosthetics

An EU-funded project has developed an artificial hand that will revolutionise the lives of amputees. The so-called Smarthand has all the basic functions of its real counterpart including sensitivity and motor ...

Other created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Exercise can lead to female orgasm, sexual pleasure

Findings from a first-of-its-kind study by Indiana University researchers confirm anecdotal evidence that exercise -- absent sex or fantasies -- can lead to female orgasm.

Other created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Neurorobotics reveals brain mechanisms of self-consciousness

A new study uses creative engineering to unravel brain mechanisms associated with one of the most fundamental subjective human feelings: self-consciousness. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 28 issue of the ...

Neuroscience created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast