Archive for the ‘emotion’ Category
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
The data are in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space and has gobbled up more energy and water. A statistical ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Their eyes met across a crowded room. The party chatter ebbed away, and the music slowed. That first lovers' glaze is the staple of the romantic novelist, and scientists believe they have now revealed the true nature of its true attractive power.
According to new research, romance has very little do ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the February 2008 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
"In our study, socializing was just as effective as more traditional ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
A Canadian study has confirmed what parents have long suspected: dating, sexual activity and substance use seem to make teens feel older than they really are. And, as adolescents get older, the gap between their chronological age and their self-perceived age widens.
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, with ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Your teen is moody. He’s not doing well in school. He wants to be left alone.
Does he have a learning disability? Depression? Or maybe he’s just a normal teen?
Pinpointing a diagnosis of psychiatric and behavioral problems in teens can be tricky, even for experts in mental health. The human brain ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Understanding the Mind
As humans we live in two worlds. There is the external physical world of work, family and friends that we travel in. Then there is the world of our mind and imagination. It is a virtual reality that can appear and feel just as real. When it comes ...
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