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Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 17, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a parent to do? Is there any redeeming value ...

New study explores role of sexual, social behaviors in seniors' well-being

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Dec 18, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers and the general public have a new resource for information on the health and intimate relationships of older people, thanks to a new supplemental issue of The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological an ...

Santa Baby: The Secrets to Santa's Sexiness

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 18, 2009 | 2 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As Mr and Mrs Claus continue to enjoy the world's longest surviving marriage, a team of researchers at the University of St Andrews set out to uncover the secrets of Santa's enduring attractiveness.

eBay Mind Games

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 11, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (4) | 3

Psychologists have long known that when two people haggle over a price, it pays for the seller to start high.

Study identifies those elderly most at risk for major depression

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Dec 17, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression.

Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 11, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 3

A new study may explain why the England soccer team keeps losing in penalty shootouts - and could help the team address the problem in time for the World Cup 2010. Research by the University of Exeter shows ...

Personalities judged by physical appearance alone

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 10, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 1

Observers were able to accurately judge some aspects of a stranger's personality from looking at photographs, according to a study in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSBP), the official monthl ...

Marriage is good for the health: global study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 15, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

Despite the barbs of comedians and the spectacular bust-ups documented in the gossip magazines, marriage really is good for you, international research has found.

Facebook profiles capture true personality, according to new psychology research

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas ...

Birth order affects cooperation in later life

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 09, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new scientific study has found that at least some of the stereotypes associated with older siblings are true: the oldest sibling is often less trusting, less cooperative, and less reciprocating ...

Loneliness can be contagious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 01, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 4

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.

Psychotherapy offers obesity prevention for 'at risk' teenage girls

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

A team of scientists at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the National Institutes of Health have piloted psychotherapy treatment to prevent excessive weight gain in teenager girls deemed 'at risk' ...

Grinch likely depressed, suffers from lack of love, joy, expert says (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Being irritable, grumpy and seeking social isolation are also hallmarks of depression, and could explain the Grinch's disdain for the Who -- the tall and the small -- his mistreatment of his dog Max and, ...

Money changes what we think is fair, research finds

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

Thinking of rewarding your sales department for a job well done? You might not want to make cash part of the pay-off.

Non-invasive technique blocks a conditioned fear in humans

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 09, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 3

Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging ...