Just past midnight on Sept. 26, 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, a member of the Soviet Air Defense Forces serving as the command-center duty officer for a nuclear early-warning system, faced a decision with unimaginable ...
Jul 26, 2017
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Individual differences in the pattern of release of the hormone cortisol in response to a stressful experience reveal how stressed a person actually feels, suggests a study of healthy women published in The Journal of Neuroscience. ...
Jul 24, 2017
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Stress during the workday can lead to overeating and unhealthy food choices at dinnertime, but there could be a buffer to this harmful pattern.
Jun 22, 2017
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When others suffer, we humans empathize. Our feelings of empathy take different forms, such as distress when we imagine and internalize someone's pain and compassion as we sympathize with their condition. These different ...
Jun 8, 2017
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The closer you feel to your actual age, the less likely you are to be satisfied with your sex life, a University of Waterloo study has found.
May 30, 2017
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Students who feel lonely are at greater risk of developing mental health problems, according to a new study led by the University of Southampton.
May 25, 2017
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How do you feel right now, in general? Pleasant or unpleasant? Crummy, calm, or jittery? Somewhere in between?
May 16, 2017
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When it comes to empathy, the idiom that suggests "walking a mile in their shoes" turns out to be problematic advice, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
May 11, 2017
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While it's estimated at least one in 10 teens in the U.S. suffer from depression at some point, few will use the word "depressed" to describe negative emotions hanging over them. Instead, new research at the 2017 Pediatric ...
May 4, 2017
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Emotional eating - eating when you feel sad or upset or in response to another negative mood - is not uncommon in children and adolescents, but why youth eat emotionally has been unclear. Now a new longitudinal study from ...
Apr 25, 2017
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