In the best of circumstances, raising a toddler is a daunting undertaking. But parents under long-term stress often find it particularly challenging to tap into the patience, responsiveness, and energy required for effective child rearing. Now research from a University of Rochester team helps to explain why chronic stress and parenting are ...
Date Posted: October 6, 2011
GOActivity in the brain's "hate circuit" is out of sync across the circuit's three regions, leading to self-loathing and other failures to deal appropriately with feelings of hate, research suggests. The results show depressed people have ...
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New research shows that making specific plans creates mental space, allowing us to avoid distraction.
On average each of us has 15 personal projects ongoing at any one time. It might include planning a trip to Europe, spring cleaning the house, ...
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Much of our eating behaviour is habitual. Many of us eat biscuits with tea, nibbles before dinner, popcorn at the cinema and so on. A new study by David Neal and his colleagues has put these habits under the microscope and shown just how entrenched ...
Oct 4
GODelaying the age when kids try alcohol or smoking decreases the likelihood that they will become dependent later in life. Effective interventions exist, but community disagreements about which programs to try can stymie decisions. Communities ...
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The idea is this. Most of us procrastinate. But there are two WAYS to procrastinate. The first way is to procrastinate by doing nothing. People who procrastinate in this manner have a few important tasks on their list. They then work very hard to ...
Oct 3
GOMost drug therapy interventions for people with autism have targeted psychiatric problems, including aggression, anxiety and obsessive behavior. Now, University of Missouri researchers are examining the use of propranolol (a drug used to treat high ...
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Antidepressants are “addictive”. Antidepressants are not addictive in the way that most people would use the word. You don’t “crave” your antidepressant. However, the medicine that gets introduced to your central nervous system becomes ...
Oct 1
GOResearchers have tapped into smartphone technology to carry out psychological experiments, allowing them access to millions of participants at the touch of a button. Instead of bringing people into laboratories to study the internal mental ...
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Everyone's a little bit racist, posits the song from the musical Avenue Q. But it may not be your fault, according to research in the latest edition of the British Journal of Social Psychology. In looking for the culprit as to why people tend to ...
Sep 30
GOCortisol is a major endocrine involved in the human stress response (corticosterone, a closely-related steroid, serves the same purpose in many other animals). Stressful experiences are also learning experiences for many individuals (“I’ll never ...
Sep 30
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If tripping in public or mistaking an overweight woman for a mother-to-be leaves you red-faced, don't feel bad. A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that people who are easily embarrassed are also more trustworthy, and ...
Sep 29
GOA primary characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is impairments in social-communication skills. Children and adolescents with social-communication problems face difficulty understanding, interacting and relating with others. University of ...
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A healthy sex life isn't just for the young, say experts. While there are no official statistics on sexually active seniors here, local experts say one thing is for certain that many older Singapore adults still see sex as an important aspect of ...
Sep 28
GONew UCLA psychology research indicates that Asians who are struggling with alcoholism may benefit especially from naltrexone. Recent research has found that a gene variant may predict naltrexone treatment success for alcoholism. About 50 percent ...
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The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: High visa fees, which reduce the influx of tourists, and its policy of promoting "gross national happiness" instead of economic growth. The two are related: More tourists ...
Sep 27
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