Mar 18, 2013 | Brain & Behavior
People suffering from complicated grief may have difficulty recalling specific events from their past or imagining specific events in the future, but not when those events involve the partner they lost, according to a new study published in Clinical Psychological...
Jan 26, 2013 | Brain & Behavior, Health, Life & Non-humans, Technology, Uncategorized
Supplementing children’s diets with fish oil, enrolling them in quality preschool, and engaging them in interactive reading all turn out to be effective ways to raise a young child’s intelligence, according to a new report published in Perspectives on Psychological...
Jan 18, 2013 | Brain & Behavior, Earth, Energy & Environment, Uncategorized
Whether an applicant receives a high or low score may have more to do with who else was interviewed that day than the overall strength of the applicant pool, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological...
Jan 16, 2013 | Brain & Behavior, Uncategorized
Be it triumph or crushing defeat, exhilaration or agony, body language more accurately conveys intense emotions, according to recent research that challenges the predominance of facial expressions as an indicator of how a person feels. Princeton University researchers...
Dec 27, 2012 | Brain & Behavior, Technology, Uncategorized
Studies of the chameleon effect confirm what salespeople, tricksters, and Lotharios have long known: Imitating another person’s postures and expressions is an important social lubricant. But how do we learn to imitate with any accuracy when we can’t see our own facial...
Dec 13, 2012 | Brain & Behavior, Technology, Uncategorized
Some people like to have a few close friends, while others prefer a wider social circle that is perhaps less deep. These preferences reflect people’s personalities and individual circumstances — but is one approach to social networks “better” than the other? New...
Dec 12, 2012 | Brain & Behavior, Health, Life & Non-humans, Uncategorized
Even before obesity occurs, eating fatty and sugary foods causes chemical changes in the brain, meaning that going on a diet might feel similar to going through drug withdrawal, according to a study published today by Dr. Stephanie Fulton of the University of...
Dec 7, 2012 | Brain & Behavior, Uncategorized
Disgust – it’s an emotion we experience when we encounter things that are dirty, impure, or otherwise contaminated. From an evolutionary standpoint, experiencing the intense, visceral sense of revulsion that comes with disgust presumably helps us to avoid contaminants...
Dec 7, 2012 | Brain & Behavior, Health, Uncategorized
Presently, there are about 40 million Americans over the age of 65, with the fastest-growing segment of the population over 80 years old. Traditionally, aging has been viewed as a period of progressive decline in physical, cognitive and psychosocial functioning, and...
Dec 3, 2012 | Brain & Behavior, Uncategorized
Although several studies have followed the course of depression throughout the lifespan, the characteristics of depression at different developmental stages haven’t been clearly identified. New research published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the...
