An emerging therapy known as cognitive bias modification, in which software helps subjects divert attention away from anxiety and interpret situations more calmly, helped improve anxiety symptoms in a pilot-scale randomized controlled trial. A small clinical trial suggests that cognitive bias modification (CBM), a potential anxiety therapy that ...
Date Posted: September 15, 2011
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There's something about the Internet--the quick responses, the anonymity--that almost begs for a hostile response. Online newspapers are being forced to devise policies about their comments sections that allow for healthy conversations but ...
Sep 14
GOA study by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB in Spanish) and Ramón Llull University have researched the relationship between the sleeping habits, hours slept, and academic performance of children aged between six and seven years of age. ...
Sep 14
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Our understanding of how people experience trauma--and how best to help them recover from it--has changed greatly in the past decade.Just watching television footage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was enough to cause clinically ...
Sep 13
GOUniversity of Missouri researchers have found evidence that shows those who quit smoking show improvements in their overall personality. "The data indicate that for some young adults smoking is impulsive," said Andrew Littlefield, a doctoral ...
Sep 13
GOWhy is it that some people are so alive and joyful while others are drab and lifeless? This is something we all know, yet never talk about. What makes some people seem fibrantly alive and others seem so lifeless and drab? Look to nature for ...
Sep 12
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In this issue you will find an update by Bernard Lim, President of the SPS Council. There is a short write-up of everybody so you know who are serving you. AGM highlights and photos can also be found in this e-zine
Sep 12
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What do we know today about the psychology of 9/11 that we did not know immediately after the attacks?
We knew immediately that the reaction to 9/11 was likely to be out of proportion to the human and material cost of the attacks we suffered. In ...
Sep 10
GOIn a new study published September 9 in the journal Developmental Science, researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Vanderbilt University found that early motor experiences can shape infants' preferences for objects and faces. The study ...
Sep 10
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Whether you're living with ADHD or just have trouble focusing from time to time, today's world is full of concentration killers. Psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino, PhD offers a few tips to manage distractions, starting with social media. It's easy to ...
Sep 9
GOWe know that in keeping the body physically healthy, the mind both conscious and unconscious is a principle actor. Indeed, research has shown that the biological, or physiological, immune system that fights pathogens once they've entered the body ...
Sep 9
GOThe children of borderline and narcissistic parents spend a lifetime gaining their freedom after living such a warped childhood. No one explains better how to do this than Christine Lawson, author of the classic book Understanding the Borderline ...
Sep 9
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Everyone makes mistakes and children are no exception. What's important is how we learn from them. Yet, children grow up in a society that pressures them to be perfect and intelligent - to achieve the highest SAT scores, land prized scholarships, ...
Sep 8
GOThe way some people talk, you'd think that a flat tax system -- in which everyone pays at the same rate regardless of income -- would make citizens feel better than more progressive taxation, where wealthier people are taxed at higher rates. Indeed, ...
Sep 8
GOPeople who volunteer may live longer than those who don't, as long as their reasons for volunteering are to help others rather than themselves, suggests new research published by the American Psychological Association. This was the first time ...
Sep 7
GOEuropeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study.
Sep 7
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