News tagged with personality
Nature Makes Us More Caring, Study Says (w/ Video)
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Want to be a better person? Commune with nature. Paying attention to the natural world not only makes you feel better, it makes you behave better, finds a new study to be published October ...
New ways to predict violent behavior?
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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In the future, diagnosing severe personality disorders, evaluating the childhood environment, assessing alcohol consumption and the analysis of the MAOA genotype may provide more accurate means for assessing risk among violent ...
Personality traits influencing weight loss
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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Being too optimistic could harm weight loss efforts. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, BioPsychoSocial Medicine, reveals the psychological characteristics that may contribute to weight loss.
Researchers find planning, positivism influence employment success at different stages
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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With America's unemployment rate higher than it has been in decades, many people find themselves looking for jobs. The process can be tiring and, in such a competitive climate, receiving that final job offer is challenging. ...
Treatment of personality disorders by psychotherapy: A French multicenter study
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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A French multicenter study headed by Jean Cottraux (Lyon) has investigated the role of psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder.
Study: Terrorism Evokes Different Responses Among Genders and Personality Types
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Terrorism incites fear designed to coerce governments to act, according to definitions of "terrorism" in U.S. law, in U.N. resolutions and elsewhere. But terrorism often prompts as much anger and retaliation ...
Sheep that shed light on personality differences
Sep 15, 2009 |
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The team led by Denis Reale, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at UQAM and Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Ecology, recently completed a study showing the link between personality, survival and reproductive ...
Seeing mental illness in a different light
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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Part of Tom Wootton's standard opening to his talks on mental illness is to pause, scan the audience and call for a show of hands.
Handwriting-based tool offers alternate lie detection method
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 28, 2009 |
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For ages experts and laymen have been analyzing and trying to crack the code of handwriting characteristics, in order to detect an individual's personality traits, or in most cases, gauge their innocence in the case of a ...
You Are What You Listen To
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Aug 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It may not be possible to judge a book by its cover, but judging someone by the contents of their iTunes library could be a very different story, new research suggests.
Job hunting? Take those wild party pics off Facebook
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Nearly half of US employers research the online profiles of job candidates on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn, according to a new survey.
Personality types may contribute to genetic success of bighorn sheep
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There must be times when University of Alberta researcher David Coltman wishes his study on animal personalities focused on something small, like a house cat. Coltman would classify cats that ...
Study: Personality traits associated with stress and worry can be hazardous to your health
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Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Personality traits associated with chronic worrying can lead to earlier death, at least in part because these people are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, according ...
Personality type linked to risk of death among individuals with peripheral artery disease
Aug 17, 2009 |
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A preliminary study suggests that a negative, inhibited personality type (type D personality) appears to predict an increased risk of death over four years among patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), according ...
Researchers explore how power influences interpretation
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Aug 10, 2009 |
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A newly completed New York University study of public reaction to the 9/11 attacks concludes that people in positions of power, from government officials to managers working on Wall Street to military personnel, tended to ...
