Psychology

At Risk For Addiction? You Share A Neurobiological Profile With People Who Already Are

Can addiction be predicted? That's always been the goal and conjecture has focused on everything from family to environment. But there are just as many fails as wins. A child who grew up in a house with smokers is only correlated to smoking if they f ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2014 - 11:49am

Paper Links Poor Physical Health And Saving For Retirement

There can't be many rich fat people because poor physical health and financial health are driven by the same underlying psychological factors, according to Lamar Pierce, PhD, associate professor of strategy at Washington University in St. Louis, and ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2014 - 4:03pm

Orgasms And Secrets: That's Just What We Call Pillow Talk, Baby

Orgasms aren’t just good for your sexual relationship, they may also promote good communication, according to a paper in Communication Monographs. In the aftermath of having experienced an orgasm, people are more likely to share important information with ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 10:46am

25 Minutes Of Mindfulness Meditation Alleviates Stress

Mindfulness meditation is all the rage in meditation circles but does it work? Most research claiming benefits have focused on lengthy, weeks-long training programs using people who already like meditation. A new paper in Psychoneuroendocrinology is about ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 6:31am

To Become An Expert, Practice Is Not Enough

People have been debating whether experts are "born" or "made" since the mid-1800s. In recent years, deliberate practice has received considerable attention in these debates, while innate ability has been pushed to the side, due in par ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 4:41pm

PNES: Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures Benefit From Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are seizures that resemble epilepsy but are instead a psychological condition. It is not the result of abnormal brain electrical activity. Because it looks like epilepsy, but isn't, it can be made worse by ant ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 5:58pm

Your July 4th Science Resolution- Start Taking Power Naps

For hibernating mammals, the pre-winter months are a race to accumulate enough energy reserves to last until spring. But what about offspring born late in the year? They have less time to store energy. Austrian scientists have discovered that power-nappin ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 2:30am

Long-Term Effects Of Psychotherapy On Borderline Personality Disorder

A new study analyzed the long-term effects of psychotherapy on borderline personality disorder. Authors report the effect of  Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) versus treatment-as-usual (TAU) on inpatient service use, and a follow-up 6 months after the en ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 10:03am

This Personality Type Is Mostly Likely To Get A Heart Attack

A new study addresses the relationship between personality and heart attacks. Distressed (type D) personality (TDP), characterized by high negative affectivity and social inhibition, along with depression, anxiety and other negative affects (such as demora ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 11:42am

Asperger Depressing Double Edged Sword

    Many high IQ Asperger sufferers think that their rationality is ultimately superior. Their moralizing provides judgments; their “honesty” blurts them out. Such behavior is usually felt to be inappropriate. Rationalizing such as a somehow more upstandin ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 8 2017 - 7:31pm