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Violence between couples is usually calculated, and does not result from loss of control
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Violence between couples is usually the result of a calculated decision-making process and the partner inflicting violence will do so only as long as the price to be paid is not too high. This is the conclusion of a new study ...
Psychologists' study finds TV ratings for kids' shows don't reflect aggressive content
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by psychologists from Iowa State University and Linfield College has found that TV ratings don't accurately reflect the aggressive content found in shows popular among children ...
Study: verbal aggression may affect children's behavior
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 04, 2008 |
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The methods mothers use to control their children during playtime and other daily activities could have a negative impact on their child's self-esteem and behavior, according to a new Purdue University study.
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Aggression between nursing-home residents more common than widely believed, studies find
Jun 02, 2008 |
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When people hear about elder abuse in nursing homes, they usually think of staff members victimizing residents. However, research by Cornell University faculty members suggests that a more prevalent and serious problem may ...
Bullying more harmful than sexual harassment on the job, say researchers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 08, 2008 |
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Workplace bullying, such as belittling comments, persistent criticism of work and withholding resources, appears to inflict more harm on employees than sexual harassment, say researchers who presented their findings at a ...
Humor develops from aggression caused by male hormones
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Humour appears to develop from aggression caused by male hormones, according to a study published in this week’s Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal.
Can different languages be analyzed using the same model?
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Spanish and Russian are relatively different languages, even if they historically share a common basis in the Indo-European family. The differences extend to the verbal system. Spanish has inherited a system that is relatively ...
Differences in language-related brain activity affected by sex?
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Men show greater activation than women in the brain regions connected to language, according to researchers from CNRS, Université de Montpellier I and Montpellier III. This work is published in the ...
Schizophrenic patients' frozen faces harm social interactions
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Non-verbal communication, in the form of facial expressions, may be impaired in people with schizophrenia. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions have shown that defici ...
The untrained eye: Confusing sexual interest with friendliness
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2008 |
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New research from Indiana University and Yale suggests that college-age men confuse friendly non-verbal cues with cues for sexual interest because the men have a less discerning eye than women -- but their female peers aren't ...
Language performance and differences in brain activity possibly affected by sex
Jan 29, 2009 |
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In a new fMRI study conducted in the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Laboratory (Montpellier I University, France) and published by Elsevier in the February 2009 issue of Cortex, researchers found differ ...
Long-term cannabis users may have structural brain abnormalities
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Long-term, heavy cannabis use may be associated with structural abnormalities in areas of the brain known as the hippocampus and amygdala, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of ...
Visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain and vice versa
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency ...
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