http://www.physorg.com/health-news/psychology/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on psychology, psychological disorders, psychological condition, psychological diseases and psychological science. A chill wind chases you into the door of your local newsagent. Rain is drumming down outside. As you pay for your newspaper, you briefly notice a number of strange items on the checkout counter - a matchbox car, plastic toy animals and some trinkets that seem out of place in this shop. http://www.physorg.com/news177020337.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:10:01 EST news177020337 (PhysOrg.com) -- Next time you watch a heavy weight lifting tournament, tell the person next to you not to boo the person that he doesn't want to win. http://www.physorg.com/news176735446.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:12:15 EST news176735446 How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones? http://www.physorg.com/news176582314.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:10:02 EST news176582314 Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search engines, while 38 percent use it to pass the time. In a recent study, University of Missouri researchers found that readers were better able to understand, remember and emotionally respond to material found through "searching" compared to content found while "surfing." http://www.physorg.com/news176563931.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:32:57 EST news176563931 Children have a remarkable ability to learn new languages. As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news176458764.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:20:59 EST news176458764 Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research laboratory. The findings could have a major impact on improving speech disorders. http://www.physorg.com/news176404265.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:50:06 EST news176404265 (PhysOrg.com) -- People who eat a diet laden with processed and high-fat foods may put themselves at greater risk of depression, according to UCL (University College London) research published today. http://www.physorg.com/news176369681.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:40:01 EST news176369681 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 someone's facial structure may be enough for us to predict their tendency towards aggression. http://www.physorg.com/news176131546.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:26:13 EST news176131546 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women. http://www.physorg.com/news176055134.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:12:45 EST news176055134 No pain, no gain applies to happiness, too, according to new research published online this week in the Journal of Happiness Studies. People who work hard at improving a skill or ability, such as mastering a math problem or learning to drive, may experience stress in the moment, but experience greater happiness on a daily basis and longer term, the study suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news176041286.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:22:10 EST news176041286 (PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology researchers have found the sound of the human voice can be recognised by the brain in less than one fifth of a second. http://www.physorg.com/news175969377.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:40:01 EST news175969377 A genetic tendency to depression is much less likely to be realized in a culture centered on collectivistic rather than individualistic values, according to a new Northwestern University study. http://www.physorg.com/news175895586.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:53:33 EST news175895586 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that despite the size zero trend, boys really do prefer 'normal' girls of an average weight and build. http://www.physorg.com/news175866872.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:10:01 EST news175866872 Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers participating in the same program who grasped a computer-simulated ball, according to a study described in the current issue of CyberPsychology and Behavior. http://www.physorg.com/news175870193.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:50:55 EST news175870193 Having children improves married peoples' life satisfaction and the more they have, the happier they are. For unmarried individuals, raising children has little or no positive effect on their happiness. These findings by Dr. Luis Angeles from the University of Glasgow in the UK have just been published online in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies. http://www.physorg.com/news175861714.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:29:01 EST news175861714 The rationale behind torture is that pain will make the guilty confess, but a new study by researchers at Harvard University finds that the pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty. http://www.physorg.com/news175785587.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:30:01 EST news175785587 A new study by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King's College London has discovered abnormalities in the white matter of the brain that seem to be critical for the timing of schizophrenia. The study, led by Professor Phillip McGuire and Dr Sophia Frangou, has been published in this month's edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry. http://www.physorg.com/news175776344.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:46:34 EST news175776344 People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor. http://www.physorg.com/news175585083.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:59:30 EST news175585083 Prenatal sex-based biological differences extend to genetic expression in cerebral cortices. The differences in question are probably associated with later divergences in how our brains develop. This is shown by a new study by Uppsala University researchers Elena Jazin and Björn Reinius, which has been published in the latest issue of the journal Molecular Psychiatry. http://www.physorg.com/news175527913.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:46:41 EST news175527913 More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat it aim at the wrong target, according to new research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The medications are like arrows shot at the outer rings of a bull's eye instead of the center. http://www.physorg.com/news175521459.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:00:21 EST news175521459 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found that even a short period of sensory deprivation is enough to produce hallucinations even in people who are not normally prone to them. http://www.physorg.com/news175504269.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:20:02 EST news175504269 (PhysOrg.com) -- Seven open-ended questions could make children less suggestible during interviews. http://www.physorg.com/news175448862.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:40:04 EST news175448862 Women are better than men at distinguishing between emotions, especially fear and disgust, according to a new study published in the online version of the journal Neuropsychologia. http://www.physorg.com/news175348715.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:30:02 EST news175348715 Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides the first evidence that human infants are able to correctly match different kinds of vocalizations to different species. http://www.physorg.com/news175188811.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:37:09 EST news175188811 (PhysOrg.com) -- People are social creatures. Robots... not so much. When we think of robots, we think of cold, metallic computers without emotion. If science fiction has taught us anything, though, it's that we crave emotion, even in our robots - think C-3PO or Star Trek's Data. So it stands to reason that if robots are ever going to become a fixture in our society, even becoming integrated into our households, we need to be able to read their faces. But how good are we at reading robot faces? http://www.physorg.com/news175175403.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:20:01 EST news175175403 (PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it`s the sound of a speeding car approaching from out of the blue, or the faint echo of footsteps following you along a dark street, such looming sounds not only make our ears prick up - but help us see better too. http://www.physorg.com/news174917281.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:09:48 EST news174917281 For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur during development. Even so, no one has ever shown that a risk gene for the disease actually disrupts brain development. http://www.physorg.com/news174908711.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:20:03 EST news174908711 (PhysOrg.com) -- How do people choose a name for their child? Researchers have long noted that the overall popularity of a name exerts a strong influence on people's preferences -- more popular names, such as Robert or Susan, are more frequent and, by their sheer ubiquity, drive more parents to adopt a similar choice. However, new research by psychologists at New York University and Indiana University, Bloomington suggests that the change in popularity of a name over time increasingly influences naming decisions in the United States. Like momentum traders in the stock market, parents today appear to favor names that have recently risen in popularity relative to names that are on the decline. http://www.physorg.com/news174633865.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:27:37 EST news174633865 Attention weekend warriors: the simple act of exercise and not fitness itself can convince you that you look better, a new University of Florida study finds. http://www.physorg.com/news174223495.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:25:49 EST news174223495 A 16-year-old might be quite capable of making an informed decision about whether to end a pregnancy - a decision likely to be made after due consideration and consultation with an adult - but this same adolescent may not possess the maturity to be held to adult levels of responsibility if she commits a violent crime, according to new research into adolescent psychological development. http://www.physorg.com/news174143664.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:50:01 EST news174143664