Your body image is impacted by those around you
Spending time with people who are not preoccupied with their bodies can improve your own eating habits and body image, ...
Tag: Perception/Awareness
Sleep, mood affect how 'in control' older adults feel
Psychology researchers have found another reason that sleep, mood and stress are important: they affect the extent to which older ...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T? LGBT views on police legitimacy and authority
New study uncovers LGBT perceptions of legitimacy, authority and justice in law enforcementCredit: Florida Atlantic University Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...
Common test for mental health understanding is biased
RMET test is biased against less educated, less intelligent and certain ethnic and racial minoritiesCredit: Dodell-Feder et al. and University ...
Copy number variants contribute to risk of 'schizophrenia-like' bipolar disorder subtype
A genome-wide association study in Biological Psychiatry examines the role of copy number variants in subtypes of bipolar disorder Philadelphia, ...
Negative experiences on social media tied to higher odds of feeling lonely
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22, 2019 - Positive interactions on social media are not making young adults feel more connected, whereas negative ...
Researchers for the first time identify neurons in the human visual cortex that respond to faces
Credit: Dr. Vadim Axelrod Imagine a world where everyone has the same face. That would be a very different world ...
Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction
Bad decision-making is a trait oftentimes associated with drug addicts and pathological gamblers, but what about people who excessively use ...
New research shows that women with IBD are at greater risk of mental illness
For every 43 pregnancies, there is one extra case of mental illness in a woman with inflammatory bowel disease OTTAWA, ...
Are your Facebook friends making you feel sick?
Research published in Heliyon finds that Facebook users who engage in social comparison are more aware of their physical ailments ...
Some Facebook users perceive worsening physical health
Facebook use linked to perceptions of worsening physical health, new research from the University of Surrey, reports. In the first ...
Exposure to sugary breakfast cereal advertising directly influences children's diets
New Dartmouth-led research finds that child-directed high-sugar breakfast cereal TV advertising is closely associated with brand-specific intake of those cereals ...
Our social judgments reveal a tension between morals and statistics
People make statistically-informed judgments about who is more likely to hold particular professions even though they criticize others for the ...
Study yields new insight on how memory works
Experiment with amnesia patients helps explain role of hippocampusCredit: Courtesy of Dr. Christine Smith Two Veterans Affairs researchers have explored ...
Research highlights what helps people live well with dementia
New research has identified the factors that enable people with dementia and their carers to live as well as possible ...
Heroes and villains influence what you buy
Characters on labels affect desire to buy healthy versus decadent foodsCredit: Brigham Young University Stories about villains and heroes have ...
Biologists identify promising drug for ALS treatment
University of Alberta scientists find a new application for an existing drug, with potential to slow progression of the devastating ...
Your brain on imagination: It's a lot like reality, study shows
Credit: CU Boulder Imagine a barking dog, a furry spider or another perceived threat and your brain and body respond ...
When scientists push people to their tipping point
We're bad at knowing when we will fall -- or when we're uprightCredit: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - You ...
Mom, I can't recognize your face from profile view!
Babies recognize faces from profile view in the second half of the first year of lifeCredit: Chuo University Tokyo, Japan ...