Psychology & Psychiatry
Exclusion more harmful to teens than overt bullying
A UQ researcher has found that social exclusion among teens can be more harmful than direct bullying.
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Health
Researchers discover a completely legal performance enhancer—friends
Exercising together brings us closer to one another, while exercising with those close to us improves our performance. Those are the conclusions of an Oxford University study published this Friday in the journal PLoS ONE.
Aug 31, 2015
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Neuroscience
Unequal healthcare funding provokes 'moral disgust', pioneering brain scan research shows
Areas of the brain associated with social and moral disgust are triggered when health care funding is split unequally, researchers from the UK and Australia have found.
Aug 18, 2015
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Neuroscience
Social groups and emotions
The semantic representation of social groups involves areas of the brain associated with processing emotions. So says a study at SISSA in collaboration with the University of Trieste and the University Hospital of Udine which ...
Jul 29, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Selective imitation shows children are flexible social learners, study finds
Psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin found that children flexibly choose when to imitate and when to innovate the behavior of others, demonstrating that children are precocious social learners.
Jul 27, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Anticipating temptation may reduce unethical behavior, research finds
Why do good people do bad things? It's a question that has been pondered for centuries, and new research published by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology may offer some insights about when people succumb to ...
May 22, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers find inspirational online videos could lessen prejudices
Scroll through your social media feeds or browse the Web and you're bound to see links to videos and images on sites like Buzzfeed or Mashable, many of them featuring cute animals or inspirational messages.
Mar 30, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How stress can lead to inequality
Stress is a staple of our lives today, and we know intuitively that it can influence our confidence in competing with others. But how exactly does stress do that? Scientists at EPFL have carried out the first behavioral study ...
Feb 18, 2015
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HIV & AIDS
Combining social media and behavioral psychology could lead to more HIV testing
Social media such as Twitter and Facebook can be valuable in the fight against HIV in the United States, where research has demonstrated they can prompt high-risk populations to request at-home testing kits for the virus ...
Dec 16, 2014
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Health
Female social status factors into sexual aggression
Lower status in a peer group can increase the risk of a woman facing sexual aggression in nightclubs, research suggests.
Oct 16, 2014
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