How do we understand words? Scientists don't fully understand what happens when a word pops into your brain. A research group led by Professor Shogo Makioka at the Graduate School of Sustainable System Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Scientists from the University of Amsterdam and Durham University have designed a tool to measure the psychological distance to science and predict science rejection in a number of very diverse domains. Using a large-scale ...
Sep 9, 2022
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Research has consistently shown that positive psychological factors are linked to better physical health, including increased resistance to infectious illnesses such as the flu and the common cold. A new study from the University ...
Aug 25, 2022
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Really understanding how someone else experiences something has always been of utmost interest but hard to attain. Is the redness that you experience the same as the redness that I experience? How can we see through someone ...
Aug 3, 2022
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How does work affect our daily lives and how does it affect our mental and physical health? How do technical solutions change people and how can devices be made more human-centric? A five-person team at the Fraunhofer Institute ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Overcoming impulses to enjoy here-and-now rewards in order to attain later benefits is fundamental to achieving goals. Such delaying of gratification is often measured by the well-known "marshmallow task" in which children ...
Jul 13, 2022
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Colleges and universities across the U.S. have seen a decades-long push for scholars to carry out "multidisciplinary" research—academic work that combines experts from different fields who mix know-how to work on a certain ...
Jun 21, 2022
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Repeated exposure to hurricanes, whether direct, indirect or media-based, is linked to adverse psychological symptoms and may be associated with increased mental health problems, according to a first-of-its kind study led ...
Jun 16, 2022
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Health and mortality in the U.S. continue to rank poorly compared to peer nations, and a new supplemental issue to The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences titled "Why Does Health ...
May 31, 2022
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Did you drink a cup of coffee this morning? If so, was it because you actually felt tired, or did you simply follow a habitual morning routine?
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