News tagged with psychological testing
Older adults often inaccurately report their own stroke history
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 11, 2009 |
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The responses of older adults who are asked whether they had a stroke frequently do not agree with diagnoses obtained by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, according to a report posted online today that will appear ...
Study looks at psychological impact of gene test for breast cancer
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Personal beliefs about inconclusive DNA testing for hereditary breast cancer are associated with cancer-related worry, and such beliefs are an especially strong predictor of whether women had been able to leave the period ...
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Quake prediction model developed
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
10 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The third in a series of papers in the journal Nature completes the case for a new method of predicting earthquakes.
Model predicts dialysis patients' likelihood of survival
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A new model can help physicians determine if a kidney disease patient on dialysis is likely to die within the next few months, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of ...
Galileo satellite platform tests under way
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
12 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The engineering model of the first Galileo satellites has completed platform integration tests at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome. The platform is now undergoing functional testing. ...
Psychologist studies how product messages influence our willingness to pay
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
13 hours ago |
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(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 Data Support Use Of Instant Run-Off Voting
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
14 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New data collected as part of a North Carolina State University study during the 2009 municipal election in Hendersonville, N.C., show that voters prefer instant run-off voting (IRV) to traditional voting ...
New software to simulate future financial crises
Technology / Computer Sciences
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(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 ...
Pioneering solar-powered plane makes airborne hop
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The prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said.
It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
16 hours ago |
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Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning—learning ...
Major impacts of climate change expected on mental health
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
18 hours ago |
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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 ...
Parents gone wild? Study suggests link between working memory and reactive parenting
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
18 hours ago |
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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, ...
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