Animal characters can boost young children's psychological development, study suggests
Children's books are full of animal characters whose antics capture the hearts and inspire the imaginations of their young readers.
Nov 22, 2024
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Psychological Phenomena: News and Research on Psychological Theory
MeSH tree: F02.739
New study highlights need for targeted suicide prevention and mental health support for sexual and gender diverse youth
Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital analyzed six years of multistate child death review data from the United States and found ...
Nov 14, 2024
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Experiments investigate early cognitive and communicative development in infants
A study led by researchers from Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, Austria; and the University of St Andrews in Scotland, contributes to the understanding of early cognitive and communicative development in humans, ...
Oct 25, 2024
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Satisfying friendships could be key for young single adults' happiness, research suggests
A new analysis assesses the heterogeneity of factors linked with happiness among single Americans who are just entering adulthood, highlighting a particularly strong link between happiness and satisfying friendships. Lisa ...
Oct 2, 2024
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Can you change your personality? Psychology research says yes, by tweaking what you think and do
Have you ever taken a personality test? If you're like me, you've consulted BuzzFeed and you know exactly which Taylor Swift song "perfectly matches your vibe."
Sep 25, 2024
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Sexual health may correlate with poor adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy in Black women with breast cancer
Among patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET), symptoms related to sexual health were associated with decreased adherence to treatment in Black women, according to results presented ...
Sep 21, 2024
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Research finds sex and gender identity are linked to human brain activity
Discussion about gender identity has become a mainstream topic, with questions surrounding how the brain is wired and how behavior is influenced by someone's sex or gender. Research from The Feinstein Institutes for Medical ...
Jul 15, 2024
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Performance on some cognitive tasks is better predicted by gender identity than by sex assigned at birth, finds study
Many studies have found sex differences in cognitive abilities. In general, women outperform men on verbal and fine motor tasks, while men outperform women on spatial orientation and mental rotation tasks.
Apr 10, 2024
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Certain personality traits possibly linked to increased risk of depression
A small team of psychiatrists and psychologists from The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, the University of Cambridge, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Virginia has found that ...
California is expanding insurance access for teenagers seeking therapy on their own
When she was in ninth grade, Fiona Lu fell into a depression. She had trouble adjusting to her new high school in Orange County, California, and felt so isolated and exhausted that she cried every morning.
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