Browsing Tag: Psychology

Our understanding of habits and patterns within our personal lives and on a societal level has expanded. We know a great deal more about the science underlying habits; why they emerge and how they change.

"Seeing a smile creates what is termed as a 'halo' effect, helping us to remember other happy events more vividly, feel more optimistic, more positive and more motivated."

“One attraction of drugs is the predictability of pleasure, as opposed to the uncertainty associated with gambling,” she said.

For years in popular culture, the terms left-brained and right-brained have come to refer to personality types, with an assumption that some people use the right side of their brain more, while some use the left side more.

Yoga "gives some sense of sanity," ..."You're no longer washed away by the avalanche of your emotions. You are more in control."

The new study does not mean that the genetics of psychiatric disorders are simple. Researchers say there seem to be hundreds of genes involved and the gene variations discovered in the new study confer only a small risk of psychiatric disease.

Why some people are manipulative, self-entitled, materialistic, and exploitive – and why it matters for everyone;.........With a hook like that, there’s no wonder it is attracting attention across the psychological community and into the mainstream.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji lived by example. Whatever He preached, He lived by that. It teaches us that we should be role models for others. We should live the life we want others to live. That is true for we as parents and as leaders in the society.

Some people can get as anxious about taking time to relax as they would if they were delivering a national address.

By being interested in their self interests rather than trying to be interesting or focused on our own, it created a win/win proposition which hopefully will increase the odds of success. And that’s the power and promise...

The idea is that the feelings we have about people can be trained in optimal ways and this technique aims to condition one’s mind to recognize how we are all inter-dependent, and that everybody desires to be happy and free from suffering at a deep level.

Young people who smoke cannabis for years run the risk of a significant and irreversible reduction in their IQ, research suggests. The findings come from a study of around 1,000 people in New Zealand.

But now there is a new prescription for combating obesity, one that goes beyond ubiquitous diet and exercise regimens: mindfulness, the moment-to-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings.

New study shows that daily ishnaan chases away depression.

Following a review of dozens of studies, University of Missouri researchers found that thoughts of mortality can lead to decreased militaristic attitudes, better health decisions, increased altruism and helpfulness, and reduced divorce rates.

New research suggests that when non-religious people think about their own death they become more consciously skeptical about religion, but unconsciously grow more receptive to religious belief.

They were young males on the make, and they struck out not once, not twice, but a dozen times with a group of attractive females hovering nearby. So they did what so many men do after being repeatedly rejected: they got drunk, using alcohol as a balm for unfulfilled desire.

Because rich people have more financial resources, they’re less dependent on social bonds for survival and, as a result, their self-interest reigns and they have fewer qualms about breaking the rules.

Psychological research has found that religious people feel great about themselves, with a tendency toward higher social self-esteem and better psychological adjustment than non-believers. But a new study...., finds that this is only true in countries that put a high value on religion.

Loneliness is not only heartbreaking, it breaks up a normal night’s sleep, a new study shows. Researchers say compromised sleep may be one pathway by which feelings of loneliness adversely affect our health.

“Long, dark nights are with us now that the clocks have gone back, but they may be held at bay in future years after new research led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine suggests that moving the clock forward all year round could be good for health.”.

It’s hard to think of a baby being violent or destructive, but the seeds of violence may be planted before a child is born, according to research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Attention to health factors as early as the prenatal stage could prevent violence in later life...

Few addiction medicine specialists advocate a path to recovery that depends solely on pharmacology, however. “The more we learn about the treatment of addiction, the more we realize that one size does not fit all,” said Petros Levounis, who is in charge of the residency at the Addiction Institute of New York at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital.

Anger is an interesting emotion for psychologists. ...researchers find that associating an object with anger actually makes people want the object -- a kind of motivation that's normally associated with positive emotions.

Happiness is a good thing... it's just not the only thing.

Seeing someone help another person makes us feel good, but is it enough to get us to go out and perform good acts ourselves?

As subtle beings we are affected by many things, one of these is colour.

Despite the rich linguistic flexibility of Punjabi, it is telling that we do not have a single term for ‘depression.’