From the University of British Columbia press release: Smartphones might make people feel more connected, but they likely don’t belong at the dinner table, according to new research from the University of British Columbia. Researchers…
From the University of Kent press release: Belief in conspiracy theories stems — in part — from negative early childhood experiences with caregivers, new research has shown. In two studies, Ricky Green and Professor Karen…
From the PLOS press release: Relating to oneself in a healthy way can help weaken the association between perfectionism and depression, according to a study published February 21, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Madeleine…
From the University of Waterloo press release: Improving how mental health patients perceive themselves could be critical in treating them, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The study found that youth with…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: A University of Texas at Dallas psychologist has examined the preconceptions about the effects of emotions on children’s eating habits, creating the framework for future studies…
From the Åbo Akademi University press release: Acquisition and active use of two languages have been suggested to train executive functions in the brain, such as focusing one’s attention, suppressing interference from the environment, and…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release: The debate in sleep science has gone on for a generation. People and other animals sicken and die if they are deprived of sleep, but why is sleep…
From the Texas A&M University press release: Steve Maren, the Claude H. Everett Jr. ’47 Chair of Liberal Arts professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, and his Emotion…
From the NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine press release: High-tech scans of the resting human brain can provide a new way to define and interpret the brain’s actual mental capacity, new research…
From the University of Montreal press release: Watching too much television at age 2 can translate into poorer eating habits in adolescence and poorer performance in school, researchers at Université de Montréal’s School of Psychoeducation…