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Psychologist studies how product messages influence our willingness to pay

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

19 hours ago | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As retailers bombard holiday shoppers with a blizzard of product bargains and layaway options, they should probably be concerned with the power of the words being used to promote their products to consumers. ...

New software to simulate future financial crises

Technology / Computer Sciences

20 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can economics better predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy? Breakthrough simulation software by European researchers could hold the answers ...

Major impacts of climate change expected on mental health

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 03, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (5) | 8

Leading mental health researchers are warning that some of the most important health consequences of climate change will be on mental health, yet this issue is unlikely to be given much attention at the UN climate change ...

Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 03, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

(AP) -- When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.

Parents gone wild? Study suggests link between working memory and reactive parenting

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 03, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 1

We've all been in situations before where we get so frustrated or angry about something, we will lash out at someone without thinking. This lashing out — reactive negativity — happens when we can't control our emotions. Luckily, ...

More competitors, less competition

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Dec 03, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

The larger the number of examinees, the lower the average grade. This is one of the findings of a series of new studies carried out by scientists at the University of Haifa and the University of Michigan. "It is a well-established ...

Apathy common in dementia patients with brain changes

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Dementia patients with a certain type of changes in their brain's white matter are more likely to be apathetic than those who do not have these changes, reveals a patient study carried out by the Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska ...

Nervy research: Researchers take initial look at ion channels in a model system

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Dec 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Before one of your muscles can twitch, before the thought telling it to flex can race down your nerve, a tiny floodgate of sorts -- called an ion channel -- must open in the surface of each cell in these organs ...

Gay, bisexual men who have social anxiety tend to engage in risky sex

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

A Ryerson University HIV researcher has found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities among gay and bisexual men, some of whom are HIV-positive.

Psychologists suggest parents should wait to teach toddlers self-control

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 4

Toddlers are distractible. Their minds flit constantly here and there, and they have a terrible time concentrating on even the most stimulating project. They might be fascinated by a colorful new toy, but only until the next ...

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