Infant Attachment

Attachment between a parent and infant is one of the strongest human relationships in existence -
but how does it form?

5 Effects That Migraines Can Have On Your Mental Health

Migraines are so much more than a painful headache. Those that experience migraines on a regular
basis often report that they have a detrimental impact on their mental health.

Can Supplements Help Your Long Term Brain Function?

There are so many supplements on the market that claim to work magic on the brain, however,
there are very few that can actually make a difference.

5 Teenage Addictions That Are Often Underestimated – Until It's Too Late

Are your teenagers favorite pastimes verging on becoming addictions? Learn to recognize the signs
and plan to step in if things seem to be getting out of hand.

How Exercise Improves Mental Health

Many people choose to exercise to lose weight or build up muscle, but what you may not realize is
that exercise can also work wonders for improving mental health.

Ways to Help Your Teen Through Addiction

As a parent, addressing your child's drug addiction might be one of the hardest tests you will ever
take.

Time for a 'back to basics' approach? Getting to grips with HOW people learn

One thing that hasn't changed is people's individuality in learning, with some finding that it just
comes naturally whilst others face an uphill struggle to process the same information.

How Your Lifestyle Affects Your Mental Health

Many doctors often prescribe lifestyle factors such as exercise and a good diet as part of treatments
for illnesses such as depression and anxiety.

Sustaining a Life-Changing Injury at Work: The Steps to Take

A workplace injury can be a difficult thing to overcome - and this article aims to help by providing the
tips you'll need to overcome your setback, step by step.

How To Help Your Loved One Bounce Back After Addiction

Watching someone that you love go through a period of addiction and substance abuse can be one
of the hardest things that you ever have to do,

HIV Stigma - How Can You Deal With It?

HIV stigma is something that's partially rooted in myths and partially rooted in misunderstandings.

Compassion and Friendship: 7 Ways to Uplift a Friend Struggling from Depression

Chances are, someone you know is struggling with depression. If this person is close to you, you
probably want to do all you can to improve the way they feel.

Money Psychology

How To Retrain Your Brain From Overspending to Saving

Napping - The Good, The Bad, And How To Do It Properly

What you get out of a nap depends largely upon two factors: who you are, and how you nap.

Is Depression Really On The Rise? If So, Why?

What, if anything, is going on? What do people think is behind this problem?

Colour Enhances Taste

Is there a relationship between colour and taste? We look at two studies that have a bearing on this
question.

The Generational Differences in PTSD Treatment

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions,
and there is a wealth of myths and mistruths that surround the condition.

Aging and the Sense of Smell

Some studies show that sensory neurons in the olfactory system in people over 60 may show
responses to odour that make it difficult to identify specific smells. This can create issues with
identifying dangerous substances and promoting good nutrition.

Sleep Loss and Memory

Loss of a night's sleep may lead to serious errors in memory.

Love: Unity or Journey?

Love is interpreted in a number of ways. Psychologists have identified two distinctive perspectives:
love as perfect unity and love is a journey.

Height and Depression

Shorter and taller men in the armed forces have a greater risk of depression than their average
height colleagues, according to a study reported in SAGE OPEN.

Fear and Politics

Political campaigns often use fear as a mechanism to influence public opinion on issues such as
immigration and war but this strategy does not affect everyone equally.

A Genetic Link to Leadership

A specific DNA sequence has been significantly associated with the likelihood that an individual is
linked with a leadership position.

Racism and Knowledge of History

The acknowledgement of racism hinges on people's knowledge of history. If you are a member of a
group that has been disadvantaged in the past you will not be surprised that this is frequently not
acknowledged - and may be denied - by people from other backgrounds.

Learning language in the womb

While it was already known that babies were born with the ability to learn and were able to
discriminate between language sounds within their first few months of life, the researchers claim
that this study provides crucial evidence that recognition of speech sounds had occurred in the
womb.

Resilience, Satisfaction and Happiness

Resilience and life satisfaction seem to be inter-twined.

Why is Laughter Contagious?

Research shows possible mechanisms for contagious laughter.

Loneliness and the Baby Boomer

Single baby boomers have a lonely old age ahead according to new statistics from Bowling Green
State University's National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR).

Power and Poor Decision-Making

How power can fuel the overconfidence that causes people in leadership positions to make bad
decisions.

Bullying

Schoolyard bullying and cyber-bullying have very different characteristics.

Eye Contact and Social Interaction

A study reported in Psychological Science looks at some of the small signals that seem to be
important for social interaction.

Facial Recognition: Ethic Differences

Caucasians and East Asians examine faces in different ways

Second Impressions Have Limited Value

An international team of psychologists argue that there appears to be truth in the saying ‘you never
get a second chance to make a first impression'.

Personality of 'Beautiful' People More Accurately Rated

People identify the personality traits of people who are physically attractive more accurately than
others during short encounters, according to a new University of British Columbia study.

Recognizing and Remembering Faces

The ability to recognize and remember faces is best when we are aged 30-34 - ten years later than
most of our other mental abilities.

Perceiving Emotions

Japanese people pay more attention to the tone of voice than facial expression.

Volunteers Disliked

Employees who readily volunteer even for unwanted tasks tend to be disliked by less selfless
colleagues.

Revising Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs

The current revision, which the authors acknowledge is controversial, takes into account
developments in areas such as neuroscience, developmental psychology and evolutionary
psychology.

Personality And Domestic Violence

Similar personality traits have been found in male and female perpetrators of domestic violence in a
group of psychiatric patients - further study may extend this to the wider community.

Rating Others Positively Linked To Emotional Stability

Research led by Wake Forest University identified an association between the degree to which
individuals perceive others in positive terms and their own happiness and emotional stability.

Keep Busy, Keep Happy

Individuals who keep busy, even with relatively pointless activity, tend to be happier than those who
do not.

Child Personality Predicts Adult Behavior

Personality traits observed in childhood are a strong predictor of adult behavior.

Attractive Women Can Be Disadvantaged

Attractive women may experience discrimination when applying for jobs traditionally considered
"masculine" and where appearance is not considered important.
Commitment And Counterfactual Reflection

Developing greater workforce commitment can be as simple as asking employees to reflect on their
organization's history.

Rating Personality and Attractiveness

Volunteers were able to accurately judge aspects of a stranger's personality by looking at

photographs.

Women Feel More Guilt

Despite changing attitudes towards interpersonal relationships, women feel significantly more guilt
than men.

Rating Facial Attractiveness

Women are as complicated as men say they are when evaluating potential mates.

Infants, Adults and Novelty

Infants who are excellent at processing novel information when they are just 6- and 12-months-old
are likely to demonstrate excellence in intelligence tests and academic achievements as young adults
in their 20's.

Race And Ethnicity Confusion

Psychological research on racial prejudice tends to give the impression that 'colour' and ethnic
groupings are clearly defined. But a study research published earlier this year points to confusion in
the way people identify themselves and in official classifications, at least in the United States.

Teenage Stress

Stress in adolescence may have a negative impact on health in adulthood. Healthy teenagers
reporting interpersonal conflicts had increased levels of C-reactive protein an inflammatory marker
associated with later development of cardiovascular disease.

Consistent Contributors

Consistent contributors help to increase efficiency by positively influencing less motivated members
of their group.
Gut Feelings Can Be Valid

Electrophysiological evidence that decisions thought to be based on guesswork or gut feelings may
actually draw on valid memories that cannot be consciously accessed.

Experiences More Satisfying Than Possessions

Purchasing experiences rather than possessions results in increased well-being for consumers and
others around them.

Music And The Effects Of Alcohol

Research led by the Université de Bretagne-Sud found that playing loud music in licensed premises
led customers to drink more alcohol over a shorter time period.

Daytime Napping And Disturbed Sleep

Poor sleeping at night has been linked to daytime napping for older adults and another study shows
that practising tai chi chih, the western version of an ancient Chinese martial art, helped improve
sleep quality in older adults.

Suppressing Anger Shortens Life

Couples in which both partners suppressed their anger when unfairly attacked by the other died
earlier than those in relationships where one or both expressed their anger and resolved underlying
conflict.

Instinctive Staring

A study of the instinctive tendency for people in a group to stare at the person most likely to be
offended if a controversial comment is made.

Youth Problems

Research from Ohio State University has challenged the common perception that girls tend to
internalize their problems, becoming depressed or anxious, while boys externalize, committing
violence against people or property. In another study, young people with pre-existing relationship
difficulties were found to be more likely to develop anxiety and depression than the other way
round, this being particularly the case when entering adulthood.

Too Little Or Too Much Sleep?

Study shows that children and adults who are short sleepers have a consistent increased risk of
obesity.
Women Are More Forgiving

Men find forgiving more difficult than women but this gender gap closes if men develop empathy
toward an offender by seeing they may be capable of acting in a similar way themselves.

Gut Feelings

Research has shed new light on "gut feelings" arguing that they are real psychological phenomena
that should be taken seriously.

New Light On Altruism

New light on ways in which people are prepared to sacrifice personal advantage for the common
good and what happens when freeloaders take advantage of their altruism.

How Culture Affects The Recognition Of Emotions

Significant differences can be seen in how people from eastern and western cultures assess
interpersonal situations.

Anxiety And Heart Attacks

Longstanding anxiety significantly increases the risk of heart attack in men, even when other
common risk factors are taken into account.

Depression And Intellectual Decline

Depression increases the risk of intellectual decline in older people and can be a predictive factor.

Negative Influences

While we tend to believe that we are capable of forming independent opinions, what other people
think can influence our conclusions, with negative attitudes resulting in the biggest changes.

Two Studies On Autism

Characteristic and sometimes severe symptoms of autism such as repetitive motions, problems
interacting with others and impaired communication can improve with age.

Hearing Messages
Hearing messages embedded in meaningless noise could be an early sign of schizophrenia.

Longing Influences Choice

Longing for something intensely (like a holiday or food) can change an individual's choice making
processes with a wider array of options considered than would normally be the case.

How Children Relate To Storybook Characters

An innovative study evaluated young children's storytelling ability and found that they are able to
immerse themselves in the thoughts and feelings of fictional characters.

Loneliness Affects Health

Pointing out that loneliness is not the same as solitude which can be highly valued they nevertheless
conclude that social isolation and physical aging may have a deleterious effect on health.

Explaining Out-of-body Experiences

Two recent studies offer insight into how individuals perceive their own bodies and a possible
explanation for out-of-body experiences.

Lack Of Sleep Affects School Results

Insufficient sleep can have an adverse effect the next day not only on an adult's work performance
but also on how well students perform at school.

IQ And Short-term Memory

Research from the University of Oregon published in Psychological Science suggests that short-term
memory capacity is a strong predictor of IQ.

Counterfactual Thinking

Research sheds new light on the mental processes involved in "counterfactual thinking" in which
past decisions are reviewed and alternatives evaluated.

Suppressing Negative Emotional Memories

Recent research has shown that negative emotional memories can be suppressed with practice,
offering the possibility of new treatments for people suffering from a range of conditions including
post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive syndrome.
Conflict And In-Group Bias

In-group bias is the basis for discrimination, the favoring of people in your group over those in
another.

Breaking Up Is Not Necessarily Hard To Do

New research shows that people were less distressed and coped much better with ending a
relationship than they predicted and that this unanticipated effect was particularly marked for those
described as "madly in love".

Whiskers Act Like Finger Tips

A study has found significant parallels between sophisticated use of facial whiskers by rats and
fingertips by humans.

Evening-preference and Adolescent Problems

New research suggests that early adolescents who prefer evening to morning activities are more
likely to exhibit antisocial behavior. Previous studies focusing on older adolescents showed a similar
link with psychological problems.

Managing Teen Emotions

Teenagers can learn to manage powerful emotions and gain insight into the processes involved.

Why Women Prefer Pink

Study supports the popular notion that men and women differ when it comes to colour preference.

Girl Talk Heightens Anxiety

Excessive discussion about problems with friends (co-rumination) may have a negative impact on
emotional adjustment in girls who are more likely than boys of the same age to develop anxiety and
depression as a result.

Links Between Teenage And Domestic Violence

Adolescents who engaged in violent behavior relatively regularly throughout their teenage years or
who began in their mid teens and increased with time were significantly more likely to perpetrate
domestic violence in their mid 20s.
Appreciating Another Perspective

People from Western cultures such as the United States find it particularly difficult to understand
someone else's point of view because they are part of a culture that encourages individualism.

The Origins of Morality

A new consensus that scientists are reaching on the origins and mechanisms of morality.

Decision-making Made not Born

People who do well on a series of decision-making tasks involving hypothetical situations tend to
have more positive decision outcomes in their lives.

Facial Composite Systems Give Poor Results

Recent technological advances in facial composite systems have failed to improve identification and
apprehension of criminal suspects.

Learning and Forgetting Languages

Two studies shed light on the process of learning new languages.

Why Psychosis Rates Vary

Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have found higher rates of
schizophrenia and other psychoses in certain ethnic minority groups and also that parental
separation in childhood is associated with an increased risk of developing psychosis later in life.

Message Less Important Than Emotion in Advertising

The amount of emotional content in television advertisements affects viewers' opinions of the
product, regardless of the intended message.