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Depression in 20s linked to memory loss in 50s, psychologists find
via Depression in 20s linked to memory loss in 50s, psychologists find “They found that one episode of depression or anxiety had little effect on the memory function of adults in midlife, regardless of which decade it was experienced, but … Continue reading
An Alternative View of Human Nature | Psychology Today
“The !Kung of Africa swap arrows before going hunting, and when an animal is killed, the credit does not go to the person who fired the arrow, but to the person whom the arrow belongs to. If a person becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, cooperation, egalitarianism, empathy
Meditation affects brain networks differently in long-term meditators and novices
“Both long-term practitioners and new meditators – when compared to non-meditators – showed reduced activity in the amygdala when they viewed emotionally-positive images. The amygdala is an area of the brain critical for emotion and detecting important information from the … Continue reading
Childhood stress leaves lasting mark on genes
“What we’re finding is that after 10 years or so there are still markers, like fossils in our genome, telling us there was a trauma here. And that trauma may make this individual more susceptible to a second trauma or, … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Uncategorized
Tagged gene, gene expression, genes, methylation, stress, trauma
„Psychedelics take people to the very center of their personal problems”
What these psychedelics do above all, is give access to other states of consciousness that are dormant within our own minds. It’s the exploration of human consciousness. It isn’t really the drug effect as such. Why are we so afraid … Continue reading
We actually ‘become’ happy vampires or contented wizards when reading a book
“Becoming a Vampire Without Being Bitten: The Narrative Collective Assimilation Hypothesis,” published in the current issue journal Psychological Science, presents research supporting the authors’ hypothesis that by absorbing narratives, we can psychologically become a member of the group of characters described … Continue reading
People recall information better through virtual reality
The researchers found that people remember information better if it is presented to them in a virtual environment. The results of the study were recently published in the journal Virtual Reality. […] The key, say the researchers, was for participants … Continue reading
Social Rejection Can Lead to Violence But, Mindfulness May Be the Solution
Image Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to theresearchers. “People who have greater levels of mindfulness — or the tendency to maintain attention on and awareness of the present moment — are better able to cope with the pain of being … Continue reading
“Knowledgeable individuals protect the wisdom of crowds” (Ed Young)
“Andrew King from the Royal Veterinary College found that it falls apart, but only in certain circumstances. At his university open day, he asked 82 people to guess the number of sweets in a jar. If they made their guesses … Continue reading
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Tagged crowd, group, guess, information, intelligence, knowing, median, Social, wisdom
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Study: Word sounds contain clues for language learners
“This summer, Christiansen organized a symposium at a language acquisition conference in Montreal where evidence showed that some systematic sound-to-meaning correspondences do exist. For instance, toddlers consistently matched rounded vowels, such as “koko,” to rounded shapes and non-rounded vowels, such … Continue reading
Conformity does not equal cooperation (Study)
“The study, published in the August issue of the journal Personality and Individual Differences, shows that people who do not conform are most likely to work together for the greater good, while conforming to social norms can actually make people … Continue reading
For my eyes only: Gaze control, enmeshment, and relationship quality (Study)
“Perceived closeness that preserves the distinctness of each partner enhances intimate relationship quality, whereas pseudocloseness or enmeshment—reflecting an inability to distinguish one’s own thoughts and emotions from a partner’s—may have more negative outcomes (R. J. Green & P. D. Werner, … Continue reading
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Tagged control, enmeshment, eyes, gaze, I, other, relationship, self, we, you
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Spurious? Name similarity effects (implicit egotism) in marriage, job, and moving decisions (Study)
“Three articles published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology have shown that a disproportionate share of people choose spouses, places to live, and occupations with names similar to their own. These findings, interpreted as evidence of implicit egotism, … Continue reading
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Tagged ego, egotism, implicit, name, pair, partner, similarity
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(Embodiment) Grounding cultural syndromes: Body comportment and values in honor and dignity cultures (Study)
“The body is a carrier of relatively complex cultural values. Three experiments examined links between body comportment and honor (a cultural syndrome prizing female chastity, familial loyalty, and reputation). We put participants from nonhonor (Anglo-Americans; Experiment 1) and honor (Latinos; … Continue reading
Ritualized Interaction for the Advancement of Children’s National Identification in Hong Kong (Study)
“Both ongoing practice and the theory of interaction ritual chains imply the significance of the contribution that ritual makes to group solidarity, such as national identification. This contribution is in need of empirical examination as in this study, which surveyed … Continue reading
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Tagged children, group, identification, identity, interaction, national, ritual, Social
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Seeing love, or seeing lust: How people interpret ambiguous romantic situations (Study)
“Interpreting ambiguous situations is a task individuals face on a daily basis. In romantic contexts the accurate interpretation of these situations is of particular importance. In the present set of studies we investigated how level of construal guides individual perception … Continue reading
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Tagged construal, date, interpretation, level, love, romance
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Eye’m lovin’ it! The role of gazing awareness in mimetic desires (Study)
“Recent studies showed that people evaluate objects more favorably when these objects are gazed-at by others, an effect coined as “mimetic desire”. In two studies, we tested whether mimetic desire stems from an automatic form of learning by examining one dimension … Continue reading
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Tagged attraction, desire, evaluation, eye, gaze, gazing, mimetic, view
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The Then and Now of Memory (NYT article)
“The recordings, taken from the brains of people awaiting surgery for epilepsy, suggest that new memories of even abstract facts — an Italian verb, for example — are encoded in a brain-cell firing sequence that also contains information about what … Continue reading
PTSD treatment and visual neurofeedback
“Military doctors have added a new technique to their arsenal of treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Neurofeedback, a therapy that practitioners claim can reboot the brain’s neural networks, has been introduced at several bases, VA clinics and even in … Continue reading
Posted in Neuroscience, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged neurofeedback, PTSD, therapy, treatment
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Decisions for Others Are More Creative Than Decisions for the Self (Study)
“Abstract Four studies investigate whether decisions for others produce more creative solutions than do decisions for the self and if construal level explains this relation. In Study 1, participants carried out a structured imagination task by drawing an alien for … Continue reading
