From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology press release via EurekAlert!: Extraversion does not just explain differences between how people act at social events. How extraverted you are may influence how the brain makes…
From the UC Berkeley press release via EurekAlert!: Employees often tiptoe around their bosses for fear of offending them. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows people in power have thicker skin…
From the Taylor & Francis press release via AlphaGalileo: Almost everyone teaches their children that lying is always wrong. But the vast majority of parents lie to their children in order to get them to…
From the CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange) press release via ScienceDaily: One of the mechanisms involved in the onset of stress-induced depression has been highlighted in mice by researchers from CNRS, Inserm and UPMC (1). They…
From the Inderscience press release via AlphaGalileo: Researchers in Canada have found a correlation between air pollution and people’s happiness. Their deep analysis, reported in the latest issue of the International Journal of Green Economics,…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Most parents do not worry if their young child has an imaginary friend and even see advantages in such an invisible companion. These are the…
From the Ohio State University press release via EurekAlert!: New research links loneliness to a number of dysfunctional immune responses, suggesting that being lonely has the potential to harm overall health. Researchers found that people…
From the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne press release via EurekAlert!: It is well known that violent adults often have a history of childhood psychological trauma. Some of these individuals exhibit very real, physical alterations…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via Physorg: Feeling socially isolated causes consumers to pursue riskier but potentially more profitable financial opportunities, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release via ScienceDaily: Women suffering from stress-related exhaustion exhibit hypersensitivity to sounds when exposed to stress. In some cases, a sound level corresponding to a normal conversation can be perceived…