From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: People who rate themselves as having high emotional intelligence (EI) tend to overestimate their ability to detect deception in others. This is the finding of…
From the University of Edinburgh press release via EurekAlert!: Genes play a greater role in forming character traits – such as self-control, decision making or sociability – than was previously thought, new research suggests. A…
From the Cornell University press releasse via EurekAlert!: Genetic factors explain some of the variation in a wide range of people’s political attitudes and economic decisions – such as preferences toward environmental policy and financial…
From the University of Michigan press release via EurekAlert!: Resiliency is a measure of a person’s ability to flexibly adapt their behaviors to fit the surroundings in which they find themselves. Low resiliency during childhood…
From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: The relationship between inability to express emotions (alexithymia) and a particular type of personality in psychiatric patients was explored in a study published in…
From the King’s College London press release via EurekAlert!: New research provides the strongest evidence to date that psychopathy is linked to specific structural abnormalities in the brain. The study, published in Archives of General…
From the University of Missouri press release: The sayings “variety is the spice of life” and “happiness isn’t getting what you want, but wanting what you get” seem to have a psychological basis, according to…
From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release: An epidemiological study that was performed in Germany and published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics disclosed interesting findings as to the relationship between…
From the University of Illinois press release via HealthCanal: People with mild or moderate disabilities who are creative, intellectually curious and attentive to their feelings – those who score higher on the personality trait openness…
From the UC Berkeley press release via EurekAlert!: “Love thy neighbor” is preached from many a pulpit. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that the highly religious are less motivated by…