Tag: psychology

Babies Begin Learning Language in Womb

Newborn babies only a few hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign one. A new study indicates that babies begin absorbing language while still in the womb, earlier than previously thought. Read more @ SciTechDaily

January 11, 2013
Happier People Earn More Money

New research indicates that happier people actually earn more money. This comes as a result of a study of 10,000 Americans that showed that those who experienced more positive daily emotions and felt more satisfied with their lives while growing up, earned more income by age 29. Read more @ SciTechDaily

January 10, 2013
Health Problems Future Mars Astronauts May Face

A newly published study found that astronauts going to Mars could have trouble sleeping, become lethargic, and have problems with mental tasks over the course of a long mission. Read more @ SciTechDaily

January 9, 2013
People Underestimate How Much They’ll Change in the Future

According to a new study, many people think that they underestimate how much they will change in the future. Read more @ SciTechDaily

January 5, 2013
Kinder Children Are Happier & More Popular Than Bullies

New research indicates that children who are kinder are also happier and more popular. Simple acts of kindness could help reduce bullying in schools. Read more @ SciTechDaily

January 4, 2013
Controversial Psychiatry Change Could See Bereavement as a Disease

A change in the official psychiatric guidelines for depression has raised fears that grief over the death of a loved one could to be classified as clinical depression. Read more @ SciTechDaily

January 4, 2013
Depression is the Top Disability Among US & Canadian Teens

According to a new study led by researchers at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle, depression has surpassed asthma as the largest contributor to ‘years lived with disabilities’ for youths aged 10 -14. Read more @ SciTechDaily

December 25, 2012
Curing Boredom

Many normal situations have the potential to be unbelievably boring. Boredom is more than just one of life’s minor irritations; it has been linked to drug use, alcoholism, problematic gambling and compulsive behavior. It has even been tied to potentially lethal errors in job execution since bored personnel preform less reliably than people engaged in…

December 23, 2012
Nostalgia Makes Us Warm & Colder Temperatures Make Us Nostalgic

Smell, touch, and music have all proven to evoke nostalgia and researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered that nostalgia is linked to the physical feeling of warmth. Read more @ SciTechDaily

December 18, 2012
Why Narcissists Seem More Attractive

While most people don’t consider narcissism or psychopathy desirable qualities in their romantic partners, many are still drawn towards people with these traits, which have been immortalized in fiction as the mean girls, the dangerous boys, and arrogant jerks. Read more @ SciTechDaily

December 18, 2012