Money Can’t Buy Happiness
American Psychological Association (APA)News release concludes that freedom and personal autonomy are more important to people's well-being than money.
News release concludes that freedom and personal autonomy are more important to people's well-being than money.
After becoming a full professor, Jackie Gilbert felt the need to purge her office (and her life) of papers, files, notebooks and artifacts--all those things that were cluttering her life and mind. It was liberating, she says.
News release concludes that women are as resilient as men in combat.
People may judge the quality and qualifications of psychotherapists simply by what their offices look like, a new study suggests.
While violent video games may lead to more aggression and anger in players, a new study shows that the opposite is also true: relaxing video games can make people happier and more kind.
Instead of feeling stressed by the money they owe, many young adults actually feel empowered by their credit card and education debts, according to a new nationwide study.
Do those lightening fast disclaimers at the end of radio and television advertisements scare you away or simply seem like white noise required by regulatory agencies? According to Northwestern University and Wake Forest University research now online in the Journal of Consumer Research, fast disclaimers can give consumers the impression that an advertiser is trying to conceal information. However, trusted brands (versus trust-unknown or not-trusted brands) are immune to the adverse effects of fast disclaimers.
When humans see red, their reactions become both faster and more forceful. And people are unaware of the color’s intensifying effect, finds a study in the latest issue of the journal Emotion.
Divorce is a drag on the academic and emotional development of young children, but only once the breakup is under way, according to a study of elementary school students and their families.
Children whose parents get divorced generally don’t experience detrimental setbacks in the pre-divorce period, but often fall behind their peers—and don’t catch up—when it comes to math and interpersonal social skills after their parents begin the divorce process, according to a new study.
Eric Vernberg found that it is not only victims of bullying who make more visits to the school nurse — it is the aggressors as well.
People’s moral responses to similar situations change as they age, according to a new study at that combined brain scanning, eye-tracking and behavioral measures to understand how the brain responds to morally laden scenarios.
Despite growing concern about the effects of media violence on children, violent television shows and movies continue to be produced and marketed to them. An Indiana University research study concludes that violence doesn't add anything to their enjoyment of such programs and their characters.
Whites believe they are the primary victims of racial bias in America. Whites and blacks agree that anti-black racism has decreased. But whites now believe "reverse racism" has increased and is a bigger problem than anti-black bias.
News release study concludes that Americans have increased prayer about their health.
Working with healthy adult mice, McMaster researchers showed that disrupting the normal bacterial content of the gut with antibiotics produced changes in behaviour.
An Indiana University of Pennsylvania psychology professor has found that only 90 minutes of exposure to pro-eating disorder websites can have significant affects on caloric intake of college-aged women with normal eating behaviors.
News release research finds that one may live longer if he or she gets along with co-workers.
Tornado victims experiencing "survivor guilt," University of Alabama at Birmingham experts say. They offer tips to healing.
How can some people respond to a question without answering the question, yet satisfy their listeners? This skill of “artful dodging” and how to better detect it are explored in an article published by the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Marlene Huff shares information and tips for parents on child development and the use of social media.
Sadness, apathy, preoccupation: those traits come to mind when people think about depression, the world’s most frequently diagnosed mental disorder. Yet, forthcoming research in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology provides evidence that depression has a positive side-effect.
Promising behaviourial therapy can give homeless youth a new lease on life: Canadian study
A team of researchers is beginning to see exactly what the response to threats looks like in the brain at the cellular and molecular levels.
Srini Pillay, M.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and award-winning author of Life Unlocked: 7 Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome Fear can discuss how does the current news on Bin Laden affects our brains and how is this information from brain science relevant to the safety, security and peace of mind of all of us?
According to data released today by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), children and youth affected by traumatic events improve their functioning in community-based “system of care” programs.
The best teacher for a young mother is her baby, contend experts who train social workers to interact with first-time moms. Adjusting to a baby can take work, and the task of social workers often is to help young mothers learn to focus on an infant’s needs, experts say.
The public favors equal custody for children of divorce, according to findings in a pair of studies by Arizona State University researchers that will appear in the May 2011 journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
Research shows racial bias influences views of Obama.
The brain is apparently programmed from birth to develop the ability to determine sunrise and sunset, according to new research on circadian rhythms that sheds new light on brain plasticity and may explain some basic human behaviors.
Drowning audits conducted at YMCA locations appear to improve lifeguards’ performance and save lives, according to a new study.
It’s an unfamiliar neighborhood and you find yourself in the middle of a bunch of streets and buildings you’ve never seen before. Giving the environment a quick once-over, you make a snap decision about whether you’re safe or not. And chances are, that first ‘gut’ call is the right one, say Binghamton University researchers Dan O’Brien and David Sloan Wilson in an article published in the current issue of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Thinking happy thoughts, focusing on the good and downplaying the bad is believed to accelerate recovery from depression, bolster resilience during a crisis and improve overall mental health. But pursuing happiness may not be beneficial across all cultures.
Stephanie Schwabe tells her life and death story underwater April 26 on National Geographic Explorer's Angel Effect.
The happiest countries and happiest U.S. states tend to have the highest suicide rates, researchers from the UK’s University of Warwick, Hamilton College in New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, have found.
Researchers used a U.S. Supreme Court case to weigh the evidence for and against the assertion that exposure to video game violence can harm teens.
Belief in God doesn't deter a person from cheating on a test, unless that God is seen as a mean, punishing one, researchers say. On the flip side, undergraduates who believe in a caring, forgiving God did cheat.
News release on psychology's positive role on climate change.
Study validates new research method with implications in psychology, political science, business.
When researchers had women view magazines for five straight days that only included images of women with thin, idealized body types, something surprising happened: the readers’ own body satisfaction improved.
Across many groups of animals, species with bigger brains often have better cognitive abilities. But it’s been unclear whether overall brain size or the size of specific brain areas is the key. New findings by University of Washington neurobiologists suggest that both patterns are important: bigger-bodied social wasps had larger brains and devoted up to three times more of their brain tissue to regions that coordinate social interactions, learning, memory and other complex behaviors.
A recent study by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm Insurance Companies ® hones in on the most common errors teen drivers make that lead to a serious crash. Teen drivers are involved in fatal crashes at four times the rate of adults. The findings were published in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention. Researchers analyzed a nationally-representative federal database of more than 800 crashes involving teen drivers and identified a few common “critical errors” that are often one of the last in a chain of events leading up to a crash.
Jisook "April" Park, a Kansas State University doctoral candidate in psychology, is researching consumer decision-making strategies and trying to understand the causes and remedies for post-purchase regret.
Men too suffer psychological trauma from partner abuse, study finds.
Research by McGill Sociology Professor Eran Shor, working in collaboration with researchers from Stony Brook University, has revealed that unemployment increases the risk of premature mortality by 63 per cent. Shor reached these conclusions by surveying existing research covering 20 million people in 15 (mainly western) countries, over the last 40 years.
A new study of telephone customer service representatives shows just how important it is for employees to start the workday in a good mood.
High school students who feel they do not fit in are less likely to attend college — particularly girls who are gay or obese — according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.
New research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine reveals the role that guilt may play as a motivational tool for cardiovascular patients.
On April Fools’ Day, Cindy Gendrich’s students may have an advantage when planning practical jokes. In the theater professor’s first-year seminar, “Why Do People Laugh?” they have serious discussions about what causes giggles and guffaws. Practical jokes are not a guaranteed way to generate laughter, Gendrich said. “Lots of theorists have observed that compassion is the enemy of humor—from the Greeks to Henri Bergson.
Women’s appreciation of their bodies is only indirectly connected to their body mass index (BMI), a common health measure of weight relative to height, according to recent research.