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The straight dope: Studies link parental monitoring with decreased teen marijuana usage

Medicine & Health / Health

Nov 16, 2009 | 1.7 / 5 (3) | 2

Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug by adolescents, with almost 42% of high school seniors admitting to having experimented with it. Continued marijuana use may result in a number of serious consequences including ...

Under Pressure: The Impact of Stress on Decision Making

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 12, 2009 | 2 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- We are faced with making decisions all the time. Often, we will carefully deliberate the pros and cons of each item, taking into consideration past experiences with similar situations before making our ultimate ...

Parents just don't understand

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Recent studies investigating the question of parental control in the west and in east Asian countries suggest that extreme meddling by parents can have negative effects on their children's psychological development in both ...

Digital divide: Psychologists suggest ways to include the aging population in the tech revolution

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Technology is no longer what it used to be: Computers have replaced typewriters and landlines are in rapid decline. Technological advances are being made every day, making many of our lives easier and allowing information ...

A vast right arm conspiracy? Study suggests handedness may effect body perception

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

There are areas in the brain devoted to our arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way these areas are distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps" and there are some significant differences in these ...

Sneezing in times of a flu pandemic

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The swine flu (H1N1) pandemic has received extensive media coverage this year. The World Health Organization, in addition to providing frequent updates about cases of infection and death tolls, recommends hyper vigilance ...

Angry faces: Research suggests link between facial structure and aggression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Oct 30, 2009 | 4 / 5 (9) | 13

Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, a quick glance at som ...

Where's the science? The sorry state of psychotherapy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Oct 02, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (9) | 4

The prevalence of mental health disorders in this country has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. Who is treating all of these patients? Clinical psychologists and therapists are charged with the task, but many are falling ...

Mad genius: Study suggests link between psychosis and creativity

Medicine & Health / Genetics

Sep 28, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (26) | 10

Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. Sylvia Plath stuck her head in the oven. History teems with examples of great artists acting in very peculiar ways. Were these artists simply mad or brilliant? According to new research reported ...

Use it or lose it? Study suggests the brain can remember a 'forgotten' language

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 24, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 1

Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language ...

Under pressure: The impact of stress on decision making

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 15, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

We are faced with making decisions all the time. Often, we carefully deliberate the pros and cons of our choices, taking into consideration past experiences in similar situations before making a final decision. However, a ...

Reading Kafka, watching Lynch improves learning, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 15, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (10) | 2

Reading a book by Franz Kafka -- or watching a film by director David Lynch -- could make you smarter.

Trust your gut? Study explores religion, morality and trust in authority

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 14, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 3

In a world filled with dogma, doctrine and discipline, it is accurate to say most of us strive to do what we believe is "right." These convictions and beliefs permeate every aspect of our lives, including education, ethics ...

Evidence that priming affiliation increases helping behavior in infants as young as 18 months

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Most of us are willing to help a neighbor in need, but there's no question that we pay a price for our altruism. Not necessarily in money, but in valuable time and energy, and with no promise of payback. So, why do we engage ...

Study shows bilinguals are unable to 'turn off' a language completely

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Aug 18, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (7) | 5

With a vast majority of the world speaking more than one language, it is no wonder that psychologists are interested in its effect on cognitive functioning. For instance, how does the human brain switch between languages? ...