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Study suggests faces can reveal economic status

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From the University of Toronto press release: Put on a happy face, your success may depend on it, suggests a study by psychology researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science. In… 

Which bar patrons underestimate their inebriation the most?

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From the Research Society on Alcoholism press release: Prior research suggests that college students, males, and people drinking alcohol at restaurants, bars, and nightclubs are at particularly high risk for driving after drinking. Breath-testing devices are… 

Some patients with dementia may experience delayed-onset PTSD

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From the Wiley press release: Delayed-onset post-traumatic symptoms in the elderly may be misdiagnosed as falling under the umbrella of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), according to a recent review. The review describes… 

Mouse study suggests sense of smell affects metabolism

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From the University of California – Berkeley press release: Our sense of smell is key to the enjoyment of food, so it may be no surprise that in experiments at the University of California, Berkeley, obese… 

Study looks at psychological effect of pushing and shoving

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From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: The results of the interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have been published in the journal PLoS One. Physicists and engineers typically use purely physical models… 

Well-being in later life: The mind plays an important role

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From the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health press release: “Aging itself is not inevitably associated with a decline in mood and quality of life,” says Prof. Karl-Heinz Ladwig, summarizing the results.…