Archive for the 'Psychology news' Category

Hopes for reversing age-associated effects in MS patients

Posted on January 6 2012 by NewsBot

New research highlights the possibility of reversing aging in the central nervous system for multiple sclerosis patients.

200 Million Illicit Drug Users Worldwide

Posted on January 6 2012 by NewsBot

Illicit drug usage is practiced by approximately 200 million people globally, Australian researchers reported in the medical journal The Lancet. High-income nations have the highest rates, and disease burdens related to drugs are comparable to the health toll caused by alcohol consumption…

The Major Personality Differences In Men And Women

Posted on January 6 2012 by NewsBot

A new study published in the January 4 issue of PLoS ONE reveals that men and women have significant personality differences. Differences between men and women and the extent of their differences have long been the issue of debate…

Daily Show and Colbert Report viewers are ‘deep’

Posted on January 6 2012 by NewsBot

Daily Show viewers are deep. That might be a shallow analysis of the research, but “there is a segment of the political satire audience that is motivated by a deeper level of processing,” according to new research.

WTC Responders’ PTSD Linked To Respiratory Illness

Posted on January 6 2012 by NewsBot

More than a decade after 9/11, the “FirstView” section online in Psychological Medicine published results of a study in which the association between two signature health problems amongst WTC first responders was examined, namely respiratory illness and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study was led by Benjamin J. Luft, M.D., an Edmund D…

Blogging May Help Teens Dealing With Social Distress

Posted on January 6 2012 by NewsBot

Blogging may have psychological benefits for teens suffering from social anxiety, improving their self-esteem and helping them relate better to their friends, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association…

Cognitive Function Can Start Failing At 45 Years Of Age

Posted on January 6 2012 by NewsBot

A human’s ability to remember data, to reason, and understand things properly can start to worsen at the age of 45 years, and not 60 as many had believed, researchers from France and the United Kingdom reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). According to prior studies, cognitive decline, if it does occur, will generally not do so before the age of sixty…

New working definition of ‘recovery’ from mental disorders and substance use disorders

Posted on January 5 2012 by NewsBot

A new working definition of recovery from mental disorders and substance use disorders has just been announced.

You say you don’t care about dating a hottie?

Posted on January 5 2012 by NewsBot

Stating that you don’t care if you land a partner who is “hot” or “sexy” is relatively commonplace. But what people say they want and what they actually want are often two very different things when it comes to romantic attraction. A new methodology that measures people’s implicit, split-second responses gets around this problem. New research measures whether people’s implicit preferences actually predict how much you like the hotties.

Coping with abuse in the work place

Posted on January 5 2012 by NewsBot

A new study assessed the tools employees are using to cope with the stress of abusive treatment from a supervisor and how effective those tools are in terms of employee well-being.