The word ?psychology?, from the Greek psyche, meaning mind or soul, describes an academic and clinical subject concerned with reason and emotion, conscious and unconscious mental processes. It has become an umbrella term for such a wide variety of ?disciplines?, paradigms, and cults that it is not clearly definable.
The genes in your congeniality: Researchers identify genetic influence in social networks – Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part by our genes.
US Radiologists are in better position to diagnose and treat self embedding disorder in teens, as some teens are wounding themselves and embedding objects such as paper clips and glass to cope with disturbed thoughts and feelings. – Minimally invasive, image-guided treatment is a safe and precise method for removal of self-inflicted foreign objects from the body, according to the first report on “self-embedding disorder,” or self-injury and self-inflicted foreign body insertion in adolescents.
Impact of buggies on parent-infant interaction investigated in new research. – A groundbreaking study being presented on 22nd November at the British Psychological Society Scotland’s Annual Conference suggests the orientation of a baby’s buggy impacts on mother-baby interaction, infant stress levels and ultimately child development.
Possible cause of antisocial behavior identified. Reduced stress hormone cortisol cause antisocial behavior – A link between reduced levels of the ‘stress hormone’ cortisol and antisocial behaviour in male adolescents has been discovered by a research team at the University of Cambridge.
Study finds men who hold traditional views of women earn more than men who don’t, and women with egalitarian views don’t earn much more than those with traditional outlooks. – Men who believe in traditional roles for women earn more money than men who don’t, and women with more egalitarian views don’t make much more than women with a more traditional outlook, revealed by researchers.
Social exclusion makes people feel physically cold, find University of Toronto psychologists. – When we hear somebody described as “frosty” or “cold”, we automatically picture a person who is unfriendly and antisocial. There are numerous examples in our daily language of metaphors which make a connection between cold temperatures and emotions such as loneliness, despair and sadness.
The victory stance of a gold medalist and the slumped shoulders of a non-finalist are innate and biological rather than learned responses to success and failure. – The victory stance of a gold medalist and the slumped shoulders of a non-finalist are innate and biological rather than learned responses to success and failure, according to a University of British Columbia study using cross-cultural data gathered at the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Scientists have for the first time identified brain sites that fire up more when people make impulsive decisions. In a study comparing brain activity of sober alcoholics and non-addicted people making financial decisions, the group of sober alcoholics showed significantly more “impulsive” neural activity. – Alcoholics are more impulsive than non-addicted people making financial decisions, revealed by researcher Charlotte Boettiger at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
