A team of cognitive scientists has good news for parents who are worried that they are setting a bad example for their children when they say "um" and "uh." A study conducted at the University of Rochester's Baby Lab shows ...
Apr 14, 2011
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It's a truth universally acknowledged that most teenagers, at one time or another, will hide information from their parents. Some will lie outright.
Dec 14, 2023
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Angela Santee studies stress. For several years, the University of Rochester graduate student in psychology had been sifting through research on stress generation and depression, working on a rigorous meta-analysis. Mentored ...
Nov 7, 2023
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While millions of people have undergone LASIK eye surgery since it became commercially available in 1989, patients sometimes develop cataracts later in life and require new corrective lenses to be implanted in their eyes. ...
Sep 21, 2023
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The beneficial effects of putting yourself in someone else's shoes are well known. But can doing so in romantic relationships reduce the temptation to cheat? A team of psychologists from Reichman University in Israel and ...
Jan 27, 2023
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Adolescents today are more stressed than ever, exhibiting record levels of stress-related mental health problems. Of course, there are plenty of reasons for teens to worry. A global pandemic. War in Europe. Mass shootings, ...
Jul 6, 2022
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COVID-19 not only causes symptoms characteristic of a typical respiratory disorder, but has also been known to trigger a wide range of other symptoms in people who had been infected, some lasting even long after individuals ...
Sep 16, 2021
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Sweaty palms during a job interview. Racing heartbeat before the walk down the aisle. Stomach pains ahead of a final exam. Many of us have experienced a classic stress response in new, unusual, or high-pressure circumstances.
Sep 15, 2021
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A new study by a team of University of Rochester psychologists and other researchers in the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD) finds that partners of mothers-to-be can directly influence ...
Jun 2, 2021
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In recent years, researchers have begun using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) not just for better understanding the neural bases of psychiatric illness, but also for experimental treatment of depression, ADHD, ...
Feb 23, 2021
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