News tagged with self reflection

Having trouble achieving work-life balance? Knowing your strategies is key

Essays are being written, final exams are looming and classes are reaching their busy conclusion. With conflicting demands from work, home and the classroom, this hectic time of year can be filled with stress. But according ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Practice doesn't make perfect, but it comes fairly close

We are not all blessed with the brains, beauty, luck, and capital that we associate with highly successful business people or entrepreneurs. Although most new business ventures fail, a few prosper and grow rapidly. A new ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Psychodynamic psychotherapy brings lasting benefits, new study finds

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is effective for a wide range of mental health symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic and stress-related physical ailments, and the benefits of the therapy grow after treatment has ended, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Altered brain activity in schizophrenia may cause exaggerated focus on self

(PhysOrg.com) -- Schizophrenia may blur the boundary between internal and external realities by over-activating a brain system that is involved in self-reflection, and thus causing an exaggerated focus on ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Short fasting cycles work as well as chemotherapy in mice

Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Flower power: How to get ahead in advertising

Some plants go to extraordinary lengths to attract pollinators. A unique collaboration between plant scientists and physicists is revealing the full extent of botanical advertising.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Partisans not locked in media 'echo chambers,' study finds

Despite the fears of some scholars and pundits, most political partisans don't avoid news and opinion sources that contradict their own beliefs, according to a new study.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Testosterone makes us less cooperative and more egocentric, study finds

Testosterone makes us overvalue our own opinions at the expense of cooperation, research from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London has found. The findings may have implications for how group ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

E-learning must synch or sink

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to one University of Alberta researcher, people looking to further their education through e-learning may want to look carefully at the conditions under which online coursework will ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Changing people's behavior: From reducing bullying to training scientists

If you want to change how teenagers view bullying, go to the straight to the source of most school trends: the most connected crowd. According to new intervention research, targeting the most influential students in a school ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Behavioral priming paradigm needs update

Behavioral priming, in which behavior is changed by introducing subconscious influences, is a well-established phenomenon, but a new study shows that the cause may be different than what was previously assumed, and that the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Declines in melanoma deaths limited to the most educated

A new study from the American Cancer Society finds recent declines in melanoma mortality rates in non-Hispanic Whites in the U.S. mainly reflect declines in those with the highest level of education, and reveals a widening ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Skip the gym? You'll pay

If, in New Years past, a steadfast resolution to get your butt to the gym has resulted in your butt remaining steadfastly planted on your couch, it may be time to introduce your butt to hyperbolic discounting.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3


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