Improving the impact of research through storytelling
From the De Gruyter Open press release: Scientists and researchers often find it challenging to get people interested in their work. It is possible to be a leading expert in a field and still be…
Study suggests absentee dads affect how women interpret interest from men
From the University of Utah press release: Women who grow up without a caring father, or who even are reminded of painful and disappointing experiences with their father, see more sexual intent in men. New…
Study suggests younger siblings impacted more by parental favouritism
From the Brigham Young University press release: A new study by BYU School of Family Life assistant professor Alex Jensen revealed that the perception of favoritism may have more effect on a child-parent relationship than…
Study suggests risk of oversharing in conversation increases with age
From the University of Edinburgh press release: The risk of oversharing in conversation — or providing a listener with too much irrelevant detail — increases as we age, research suggests. Tests carried out on a…
Study shows clear effect of art therapy on severe depression
From the University of Gothenburg press release: Create a picture of how you are feeling on this particular day, said the first exercise in the art therapy. After ten treatments the patients who suffered from…
Study suggests toxic air may affect mental health
From the University of Washington press release: There is little debate over the link between air pollution and the human respiratory system: Research shows that dirty air can impair breathing and aggravate various lung diseases. Other…
Study suggests childhood spankings can lead to adult mental health problems
From the University of Michigan press release: Getting spanked as a child can lead to a host of mental health problems in adulthood, say University of Michigan researchers. A new study by Andrew Grogan-Kaylor and…
Study suggests some natural environments more psychologically beneficial than others
From the University of Surrey press release: Spending time in rural and coastal locations is more psychologically beneficial to individuals than time spent in urban green spaces, a new study in the journal Environment & Behavior reports.…
How individual differences in brain dynamics influence self-control when faced with temptation
From the University of Miami press release: What makes some people better able to resist temptation than others? Lucina Uddin and Jason Nomi, cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences…
Study suggests hearing an opinion spoken aloud humanizes the person behind it
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People attribute more humanlike qualities to those expressing opinions they disagree with when the opinions are spoken as opposed to written, according to new research in Psychological Science,…