News tagged with emotional contagion

Want to win friends and influence people? Use Facebook and IM, studies suggest

Nov 20, 2008 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's an age-old question: How do you get a new acquaintance to like you? Jeff Hancock, associate professor of communication, says that he and his research team have found in two studies that ...

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Happiness is infectious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 05, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (23) | 5

If you're happy and you know it, thank your friends—and their friends. And while you're at it, their friends' friends. But if you're sad, hold the blame. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University ...

Internet search process affects cognition, emotion

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 04, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (8) | 0

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 ...

Two brain structures key to emotional balance especially in threatening situations

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Oct 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers have discovered that a primitive region of the brain responsible for sensorimotor control also has an important role in regulating emotional responses to threatening situations. This region appears to work in ...

Children with emotional difficulties at higher risk for adult obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

Sep 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Previous research has shown that low self-esteem and emotional problems are found in people who are overweight or obese- but not which influences which. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine, sheds ...

Are teenagers wired differently than adults?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Parents have long suspected that the brains of their teenagers function differently than those of adults. With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop ...

Researchers Find Alcoholics Display Abnormal Brain Activity When Processing Facial Expressions

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Aug 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal ...

Love hurts: Why emotional pain really affects us

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 03, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

Have you ever felt overly upset by a social snubbing? Your genetics, not your friends, may be at fault.

Teenage suicides: Study advocates greater family support

Medicine & Health / Health

Apr 21, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 0

Teenage suicide is often perceived as the result of rejection of family, significant others and of society. Families affected by teenage suicide often look back for warning signs and clues in order to make sense of the tragedy. ...

Regulating emotion after experiencing a sexual assault

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Oct 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

After exposure to extreme life stresses, what distinguishes the individuals who do and do not develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? A new study, published in the October 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry, sugges ...