Given that 69% of any couple’s disagreements are most likely unresolvable, learning how to navigate these conversations in a mutually satisfying way is essential to the longevity and health of any couple relationship. One of the important keys for a healthy relationship is the ability to accept the influence of your partner.
Date Posted: June 4, 2015
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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The brain is incredibly complex and marvelous and it seems as if it has an endless storage capacity. But is there a point where it reaches capacity? In other words, can the brain be “full”?
Jun 3
Categories: Adult psychological development
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A new study has taken the first-ever look at the academic outcomes of children with epilepsy who have had brain surgery, and found that they have a higher chance of struggling in class following their surgery.
Jun 3
Categories: Child Development
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In an age when the formula for success seems infinitely regressive - when having a good career means going to a good college, which requires acing your way through a top high school, middle school and even preschool - the onus is on the parent to ...
Jun 3
Categories: Adult psychological development
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Young athletes often hear phrases of encouragement like, "dig a little deeper" or "be mentally tough." For most kids, these words from a coach, a parent or a teammate go in one ear and out the other. While the conscious brain may dismiss this ...
Jun 2
Categories: Sports Psychology
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Beginning readers who focus on letter-sound relationships, or phonics, instead of trying to learn whole words, increase activity in the area of their brains best wired for reading, according to new Stanford research investigating how the brain ...
Jun 2
Categories: Child Development
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Our lives are full of decisions, and sometimes they include risky ones. People's risky behaviours are often dependent on their beliefs about the potential benefit and failure of the action. For some actions, the beliefs about potential risks can be ...
Jun 2
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
GO"Inside Out" tells the story of Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger and Sadness. They run a girl named Riley from a control center ...
May 30
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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In the world of online dating, nothing is as it seems. But that doesn’t stop many of us from leaping to the wrong conclusions about people. A recent paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association and ...
May 29
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Most of us have experienced writer's block at some point, sitting down to write, paint or compose only to find we can't get the creative juices flowing. Most frustrating of all, the more effort and thought we put into it, the harder it may become. ...
May 29
Categories: Creative Blocks
GOOne night of poor sleep significantly decreases performance on intelligence tests in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and also in neurotypical children (without ASD). This is the conclusion made by researchers at the Hôpital ...
May 29
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development, Sleep Disorders
GOThe neuroscientist discusses her research on how and why people laugh and her part-time gig as a standup comic
May 28
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Only recently have scientists begun to explore the relationship between nutrition and mental health. While the science is relatively new and much of it limited to observational studies that do not prove cause and effect, so far the findings are ...
May 28
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Mindfulness - an ancient Buddhist approach to meditation - is attracting increasing attention in the 21st century as a non-invasive treatment for stress and depression. But can it improve mental wellbeing in young people?
May 28
Categories: Meditation, Mindfulness
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"The Culture of Poverty”, published in 1966 (pdf), was hugely influential, persuading many policy makers that children from low-income families are destined for lives of “criminality, joblessness, and poverty” because they exist in enclaves ...
May 27
Categories: Child Development
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Random checks of pilots' psychological fitness could help reduce risks in the aviation sector, Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said in his first newspaper interview since the crash of a Germanwings plane in March.
May 26
Categories: Workplace Issues
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