Psychology

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

All Summer Jobs Are Good For Kids

In the US, there is constant discussion about minimum wage and little recognition that those jobs are just that- a minimum wage and not a career. They are for young people and people starting out, it isn't expected that minimum wage is the goal. Inst ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 3:06pm

Neuroeconomists Retrospectively Confirm Warren Buffett's Wisdom

Warren Buffett, billionaire invested, says that investors should try to "be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful."  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 3:30pm

Varenicline With Nicotine Patch Improves Smoking Cessation

Combining the smoking cessation medication varenicline with nicotine replacement therapy was more effective than varenicline alone at achieving tobacco abstinence at 6 months, according to a study in the July 9 issue of JAMA. The combination of behavioral ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 2:30am

Eating After Exercise: Fool Your Brain And You Fool Your Stomach

If you are having fun rather than doing exercise because you are worried about your health, you'll eat less, according to a new paper which delves into how to market to your brain. Some people really like to run, or they look forward to exercise. The ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 8:24am

Why Millennials Eat Tofu

Tofu is prized by vegetarians as an alternate source of protein, if they don't mind highly processed food that will make men sterile. But Dr. Oz, the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and others swear by it. Yet Tofu is not a food fad for Millennial women b ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 1:30am

Kids With Pacemakers Need A Physical Competence Boost

No one worries about children like parents, and having a child with a pacemaker is even more worrisome. But kids who are worried over too much develop a low sense of self-competence which can contribute to decreased quality of life, according to a paper i ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 2:18pm