One of our most mysterious and intriguing states of consciousness is the dream. We lose consciousness when we enter the deep waters of sleep, only to regain it as we emerge into a series of uncanny private realities. These air pockets of inner experience have been difficult for psychologists to ...
Date Posted: April 29, 2014
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You need to make sure things get accomplished but you don't want to be the boss that everyone hates - the dreaded micromanager. Leadership coach Lolly Daskal and Psychologist Art Markman offer their advice in how to balance this tricky situation.
Apr 29
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Lists of how to be happy at work often implicitly blame workers themselves.
If you're not happy, they imply, it's because you're not prioritising properly or you need to smile more, or some other trite rubbish.
Don't accept this: organisations are ...
Apr 28
Categories: Happiness, Workplace Issues
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The 60 trillion cells that comprise our bodies communicate constantly. Information travels when chemical compounds released by some cells are received by receptors in the membrane of another cell. In a paper published in the Journal of ...
Apr 28
Categories: Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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A new study from the University of Edinburgh uses an unique longitudinal dataset - the Lothian Birth Cohort - and an ingenious analysis technique called Mendelian Randomisation to disentangle the causal influence of drinking alcohol on cognitive ...
Apr 28
Categories: Addictions
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Self-control can be difficult - sticking with a diet or trying to focus attention on a boring textbook are hard things to do. Considerable research suggests one potential explanation for this difficulty: Exerting self-control for a long period seems ...
Apr 26
Categories: Adult ADHD, Control Issues
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The influence of fathers on their teenage children has long been overlooked. Now researchers are finding surprising ways in which dads make a difference
Apr 26
Categories: Parenting
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If you are trying to quit smoking one method to incorporate is to do new, exciting "self-expanding" activities that can help with nicotine craving.
This is the take-home message from a new study published online in PLOS ONE by a team of researchers ...
Apr 25
Categories: Addictions
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Can you tell how intelligent someone is just from their facial features?
A new study finds that when judging men just on their facial appearance, there was a relationship with actual intelligence.
Apr 25
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Peekaboo is a game played over the world, crossing language and cultural barriers. Why is it so universal? Perhaps because it's such a powerful learning tool.
Apr 24
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What's one of your worst memories? How did it make you feel? According to psychologists, remembering the emotions felt during a negative personal experience, such as how sad you were or how embarrassed you felt, can lead to emotional distress, ...
Apr 24
Categories: Anger Management, Anxiety, Depression
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As I approached four years as a widow, the loneliness of a one-person household began to drag me down. Acquiring a four-legged companion, rather than a two-legged one, appealed to me.
Apr 24
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What does it take to be a good parent? We know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than ability, children develop a stronger work ethic and become more ...
Apr 24
Categories: Child Development
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Children who are bullied can still experience negative effects on their physical and mental health more than 40 years later, say researchers from King's College London.
Their study tracked 7,771 children born in 1958 from the age of seven until 50.
Apr 23
Categories: Bullying
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A new study points to a conceptually novel therapeutic strategy for treating depression. Instead of dampening neuron firing found with stress-induced depression, researchers demonstrated for the first time that further activating these neurons opens ...
Apr 23
Categories: Depression
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I learned many of life's great lessons while watching Audrey Hepburn movies with my grandmother. To this day, I cannot hear the word "empathy" without being reminded of the first time I heard that word in the movie Funny Face. Empathy is difficult ...
Apr 22
Categories: Empathy
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