Psychology

Mapping Emotions In The Body- Online, Using Colors

How are emotions experienced in the body? Researchers at Aalto University say they know. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 31 2013 - 11:53am

When You Read Stories About Risk-takers, You Imagine Them Taller

Residents of a small village on the Fijian island of Yasawa went boating alone, without life vests, and gave no thought to shimmying up very tall coconut trees.   ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2014 - 5:23pm

Mindfulness Meditation Helps With Mild Anxiety And Depression, Finds Review

A Johns Hopkins University of research suggests that about 30 minutes of meditation daily may improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, without medication. The scholars evaluated the degree to which self-reported symptoms changed in people who had a var ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2014 - 7:06pm

Racism Will Literally Make You Old, Say Epidemiologists

African-Americans having a shorter life expectancy and a greater likelihood of suffering from aging-related illnesses at younger ages compared to European-Americans.  A new paper claims that it may be racism impacting aging- at the cellular level. The cor ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2014 - 10:51am

What Google Searches During The Great Recession Tell Us About Health And Wealth

One of the best arguments for using science to allow people to grow food in difficult climates, rather than having wealthier nations donate it to them, is that wealth leads to better lives in lots of ways. Agriculture made Europe and the United States and ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2014 - 2:43pm

Fat Shaming Doesn't Work

In a future where the public will be paying for health care, the patience for preventable diseases, like those related to smoking and overeating, is dwindling. But current weight loss messages and the stereotyping in the media-  that characterize overweig ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2014 - 2:40pm

Autism Spectrum Disorder Guide For Physicians

Increased awareness and a much broader range of conditions being part of the autism 'spectrum' has been good for therapists but is placing huge demands on health care systems and health care professionals. A review published in the Canadian Medi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2014 - 8:48am

Don't Fit A Stereotype? Black Men Will Be Remembered As 'Whiter'

One of the less positive aspects of race-baiting culture left over from the 1960s is the charge that you are 'not black enough' if you don't dress, act or speak in a stereotypical way. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2014 - 7:32pm

Have You Visited The Doctor? There's A 50 Percent Chance It Was A Guilt Trip

If you have ever visited a doctor's office, there is a 50 percent chance you left feeling ashamed or guilty, according to psychologists from the University of California, San Diego. And what happened next? Perhaps you were motivated to make changes i ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2014 - 1:07pm

Quantum Vibrations Evidence For Theory Of Consciousness?

A derided 1990s hypothesis of consciousness may have gotten new life, according to a review in Physics of Life Reviews, which claims that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities inside brain neurons. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2014 - 11:31am