Facebook Use Elevates Mood
People visit social networking sites such as Facebook for many reasons, including the positive emotional experience that people enjoy and want to repeat, according to an article in Cyberpsychology,...
View ArticlePersonality Traits May Determine How Long A Person Lives
Personality traits may play a role in how long an individual lives, say researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University. After...
View ArticleThe strange and surprising ways the sun affects what we do.
The Tipping Point Sunshine makes us nicer, inducing us to want to help others. On sunny days, regardless of the temperature, we answer more survey questions from people with clipboards and tip more...
View ArticleThe Science of Love: Harry Harlow & the Nature of Affection
During the first half of the 20th century, many psychologists believed that showing affection towards children was merely a sentimental gesture that served no real purpose. Behaviorist John B. Watson...
View Article9 Simple Suggestions That Change People’s Perceptions
Can we improve our own and other people's lives with the simple power of suggestion? How strong is the power of suggestion? Is it really possible to change how people think by making small changes to...
View ArticleSpirituality Correlates to Better Mental Health Regardless of Religion, Say...
ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2012) — Despite differences in rituals and beliefs among the world's major religions, spirituality often enhances health regardless of a person's faith, according to University...
View ArticleThe Question of Forgiveness
A classic Buddhist proverb states: “Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Forgiveness is one of the most...
View ArticleResearchers Tie Simple Scent To Increased Retail Sales
Scientists and business people have known for decades that certain scents - pine boughs at Christmas, baked cookies in a house for sale - can get customers in the buying spirit. Eric Spangenberg, a...
View ArticleDon't Sneeze On Me
We avoid people who look sick—even if they are not. The common cold results in more than a sore throat and a runny nose; new research shows that illness can actually change our personal prejudices....
View ArticleFacebook and Self-Esteem
Your Facebook profile is an ideal version of yourself, full of photos and posts designed to put your best face forward to your friends, family and acquaintances. But there’s another benefit: A new...
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Just a interesting bit of information regarding memory... Our brains can store about 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes) of information in memory. Just for comparison, if your brain worked like a...
View ArticleAmazing Connection We Have With Plants
Have you ever felt a connection a connection with trees and plants as if they share some wavelength with you? We apparently share more of a connection with plants than we give ourselves credit for:...
View ArticleAre We Becoming Less Creative?
Research in recent years has suggested that young Americans might be less creative now than in decades past, even while their intelligence -- as measured by IQ tests -- continues to rise. But new...
View ArticleMid-life Crisis: An Outdated Myth?
The stereotype that many middle-aged people get depressed and must perk up their lives with sports cars and affairs may be an outdated myth, scientists say. In fact, these days many people often feel...
View ArticleNormalcy???
I always find it interesting that we tend to look at behaviors from others or ourselves and although we see the uncommon characteristics of that person, life goes on, although we may find humor or...
View ArticleMaking a mistake can be rewarding
The human brain learns two ways -- either through avoidance learning, which trains the brain to avoid committing a mistake, or through reward-based learning, a reinforcing process that occurs when...
View ArticleThe Nomophobia Test: Fear of Being Without Your Mobile Phone
Take the test for ‘nomophobia': short for “no-mobile-phone phobia”. Psychologists have developed a test for nomophobia: the fear of being without your phone. Nomophobia is short for “no-mobile-phone...
View ArticlePsychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness
The 48-year-old man turned down a job because he feared that a co-worker would be gay. He was upset that gay culture was becoming mainstream and blamed most of his personal, professional and emotional...
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