John Hodsoll (Queen Mary University, United Kingdom) and coworkers have shown that preferential adult attention to infant facial features is affected by the race of the infant relative to that of the adult, suggesting an influence of experience and environment. This news feature was written on September 2, 2010.... Hodsoll, J., Quinn, K. A., & Hodsoll, S. (2010) Attentional Prioritizatio
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Racial Bias of Adult Sensitivity to Infant Facial Care-Seeking Cues
Posted by admin 2 hours 29 minutes ago (http://www.nasw.org)How To Fight Loneliness
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Loneliness is bad for your health. The work of John Cacioppo and others has proven this connection repeatedly over the last decade, finding links between loneliness and blood pressure, sleep quality, dementia, gene expression, and many other medical measures. The evidence has built to the point that loneliness could be considered a serious risk factor [...]... Masi CM, Chen HY, Hawkley LC
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The Science of Sexism: Primate Behavior and the Culture of Sexual Coercion
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The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by The Intersection at Discover magazine.Despite the advances our society has made for women’s rights and sexual equality during the last century this example is just one more sign of how far we still have to go. It’s not an isolated incident. According to statistics compiled by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission there were 12,696 work
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The woman whose new memories are erased each night
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Psychologists have documented what they believe to be a clinical first - the case of an amnesic woman whose memory for new material is erased each night that she goes to sleep (movie fans will recognise this as a plot device in the 2004 film 50 First Dates). Referred to as case FL, the woman developed these symptoms after she hit her head in a car accident in 2005, aged 48. Brain scans and neurol
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by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. I am not particularly well-versed in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). I've read outcome studies, seen Steve Hayes give a demonstration of cognitive diffusion at the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) conference, written...
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The Stress Symphony a Prelude to Neurogensis et Stress
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Hi there! Been a long time eh? Not sure what happened there, but I blame Harry. Somehow, somewhere he was involved. So let’s just jump right into it Stress. Your reason for not calling your mother, a graduate student’s excuse for overeating, not sleeping, forgetting to hand in an abstract, walking into walls and lying [...]... Bruce S. McEwen. (2007) Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress
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Self-Righteousness and Kink: Perfect Together?
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Props to my colleague Lindsay Beyerstein for this great catch yesterday: Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle's campaign received a donation from someone who listed her employer as "husband" and her occupation as "slave." Maybe it's just a joke (boring). Or maybe this couple is in one of those Christian "submitted wife" relationships (unlikely, given that "slave" isn't the sort of rhetoric that cult
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The class of 77%
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A study just published in the British Journal of Psychiatry has found that only 23% of the population are without symptoms of personality disorder. If you’re not familiar with it, personality disorder is a somewhat controversial diagnosis which essentially classifies people who we might otherwise called ‘extremely difficult’ – but to the point where they [...]
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