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<title><![CDATA[Sleep Disorders Are No Laughing Matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[March 7 thru the 13th is Sleep Awareness Week. Good sleep is important for physical health. As for emotional health, studies suggest that the presentation of mental health difficulties is often accompanied by sleep disturbances....	        Lee, M., Choh, A., Demerath, E., Knutson, K., Duren, D., Sherwood, R., Sun, S., Chumlea, W., Towne, B., Siervogel, R.... (2009) Sleep disturbance in relation t<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obstinately Overprotecting Odin]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:00:18 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning and worried about my 2 year-old son, Odin.  Is he eating enough leafy greens?  Is he socializing well with others? Is this demanding and snarky attitude he is newly exhibiting a permanent part of his personality? Will ramming his head into the table while playing soccer in the house prevent [...]...	        Narita, K., Takei, Y., Suda, M., Aoyama, Y., Uehara, T., Kosaka, H.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[American Psychiatric Association 2010 Annual Meeting Features Conversations With Terry Bradshaw]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:00:15 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mental illness can affect anyone, including celebrities and  public leaders. The American Psychiatric Foundation's ninth annual  Conversations event,  will feature  sportscaster and former NFL star Terry Bradshaw, who will talk candidly about his personal story of  living with mental illness...<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Brain naturally follows scientific method]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:14 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists. Good science involves formulating a hypothesis and testing whether this hypothesis is compatible with the scientist's observations. Researchers have now shown that this is what the brain does as well. A study shows that it takes less effort for t<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can the Theory of Planned Behavior Predict the Maintenance of Physical Activity?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:17 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been applied to many areas of research in physical activity with varying degrees of success I would argue.  This paper looks at the ability of TPB to predict participation in physical activity and explored the development of activity habits in a 12-week study. Gym members completed standard theory of planned behavior measures at baseline and follow-up.  Th<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Young Boys' Academic Functioning May Be Adversely Affected By Video-Game Ownership]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:15 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Parents of young boys may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids' video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children. Psychological scientists Robert Weis and Brittany C...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reminder of disease primes the body and mind to repel other people]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:24 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When it comes to avoiding infection, a growing body of evidence suggests we don't just have a physiological immune system, we also have a behavioural immune system - one that alerts us to people likely to be carrying disease, and that puts us off interacting with them. Indeed, there's research showing that people who are more fearful of disease tend to hold more xenophobic attitudes and to displa<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Friston is Freudian]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:24 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Professor Karl Friston is one of the most prominent (and prolific) researchers in the field of neuroimaging. His contributions to methodological development in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are immense:He  invented statistical parametric mapping; SPM is an international standard for analysing imaging data and rests on  the general linear model and random field theory (developed wit<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You know your &lsquo;type&rsquo;?  It&rsquo;s stress dependent&hellip;]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:08 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A number of interesting revelations to be had here, and all to do with our choices of &#8216;mate&#8217;.And by mate, I don&#8217;t mean the antipodean colloquialism meaning &#8216;friend&#8217;.  Nope, I mean mate as in, you know, someone you want to shag.  As it were.The first revelation in this paper* is that, for the most part, [...][Click on the hyperlinked headline for more of the goodness]<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why We Can’t Be Honest About Homoeroticism]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:06 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eric Massi is quitting Congress because he fools around with men sexually, but he's not allowed to say he's gay.  He's not allowed to say it because you can't be gay and a politician where he lives.  That's the situational reason.The psychological reason he can't be gay is because he doesn't want to be gay - he wants to have a wife and kids, along with (previously) wanting to be a Congressperson.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy Recognized For Advocacy Work On Mental Health Issues]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:24 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) was honored last night by the American Psychological Association for his advocacy work and legislative accomplishments on mental health issues. The APA presented Kennedy with the 2010 Outstanding Leadership Award, given annually to a member of Congress who has prominently championed the goals of professional psychology...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why surprises temporarily blind us]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:22 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[New research reveals for the first time how our brains coordinate two different types of attention and why we may be temporarily blinded by surprises.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When You Expect Rapid Feedback, the Fire to Perform Gets Hotter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:16 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s say that you&rsquo;re preparing for an extremely important test that you and roughly 100 other classmates will be taking in a week.  A few days before the test, you find out that your instructor will be going on a trip not long after the test is over and will be providing written and verbal feedback to the students within a day of the test.This is unusual, because ordinarily the instr<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Alzheimer's test offers better opportunities for early detection]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:15 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Early detection is key to more effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive impairment, and recent research shows that a new test is more than 95 percent effective in detecting cognitive abnormalities associated with these diseases.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dscovery gives insight into brain 'replay' process]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:00:12 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The hippocampus, a part of the brain essential for memory, has long been known to "replay" recently experienced events. Previously, replay was believed to be a simple process of reviewing recent experiences in order to help consolidate them into long-term memory. However, new research shows the phenomenon of memory replay is much more complex, cognitive process that may help an animal maintain it<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mother's flu during pregnancy may increase baby's risk of schizophrenia]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:16 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rhesus monkey babies born to mothers who had the flu while pregnant had smaller brains and showed other brain changes similar to those observed in human patients with schizophrenia, a study has found.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Alcohol Does to Your Mind: Attentional Myopia]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:12 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Alcohol makes us attentionally 'short-sighted'-this helps explain its popularity and its variable effects.No one who has tried alcohol can fail to wonder about its effects on our thoughts, feelings and behaviours.We tend to think of alcohol as primarily a disinhibitor, but this can't really explain its varying effects. Sometimes it seems to make us loud [...]&raquo; Positive psychology workbooks <br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Origins of Sexual Prejudice]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:13 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mata et al. (2010) use social dominance orientation (SDO) theory to ponder why it is that boys in school are so prejudiced against gays. Might contact, understanding, and respect lead to more inclusive (and less homophobic) classroom settings?...	        Mata, J., Ghavami, N., & Wittig, M. (2009) Understanding Gender Differences in Early Adolescents' Sexual Prejudice. The Journal of Early Adolesc<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Men, not ladies, first: We're still sexist in writing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:08 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Putting male names before female names in writing is a remnant of sexist thinking, new research suggests.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Risk-Free Treatment For Low Female Sexual Desire]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:22 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[According to the Journal of Sexual Medicine, people who engage in regular sexual activity gain several health benefits, such as longer lives, healthier hearts, lower blood pressure, and lower risk of breast cancer.  However, approximately 33 percent of women may not receive these benefits due to low sexual desire...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[&quot;Why do we believe&quot;, and are atheists really more intelligent?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:07 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ResearchBlogging.org editor Dave Munger has written an article for SEED magazine entitled "Why do we believe". The article summarizes recent blog entries regarding studies on the origins of religiosity. It's really worth reading to get a good overview of the subject, and what do you know he links my entry on god's will and beliefs in it.Among the studies that are mentioned is a controversial stud<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Veterans Mental Health Service Extended Across Wales]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:12 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A pilot project to support armed services personnel experiencing mental health problems as a result of their service will be extended across Wales, Health Minister Edwina Hart announced.  The service, which has been trialled in the Cardiff and Vale and Cwm Taf Health Board areas, offered access to clinicians with expertise in veterans' mental health to provide assessment and suitable treatment...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The way the worm wiggles]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:00:18 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Image via WikipediaOnce in a while you come across a study article that is so elegant and lucid that you have to blog about it. A not-son recent, but new to me&#160; article in PLOS computational biology by Stephens et al is just such an awesome and well written article that despite being outside my More &#62;Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related posts:The 33rd edition of Encephelon online now! th<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anthropologist/Neuroscientist Team Propose That Religion Is Ubiquitous And Persistent Because The Human Brain Needs It]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:07 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the fractious debate on the existence of God and the nature of religion, two distinguished scientists radically alter the discussion...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Confidence is key to gauging impressions we make]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:14 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The gift of "seeing ourselves as others see us" comes in handy when judging how we've made a first impression. Yet many come away with little or no clue about how that first impression was perceived. A new study suggests confidence is a key indicator of how well we've assessed impressions left behind.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Personality Makes Drugs Ineffective In Depression]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:12 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the role of personality factors in moderating treatment response in depression...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link between brain chemical, cognitive decline in schizophrenia demonstrated]]></title>
<link>http://news.psydir.com/Psychology-News/link-between-brain-chemical-cognitive-decline-in-schizophrenia-demonstrated/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:10 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In one of the first such studies involving human patients with schizophrenia, researchers have provided evidence that deficits in a brain chemical may be responsible for some of the debilitating cognitive deficits -- poor attention, memory and problem-solving abilities -- that accompany the delusions and hallucinations that are the hallmarks of the disorder.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can We Rely on fMRI?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:00:14 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Craig Bennett (of Prefrontal.org) and Michael Miller, of dead fish brain scan fame, have a new paper out: How reliable are the results from functional magnetic resonance imaging?Tal over at the [citation needed] blog has an excellent in-depth discussion of the paper, and Mind Hacks has a good summary, but here's my take on what it all means in practical terms.Suppose you scan someone's brain whil<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The CSIC Presents The Archive Of Mourning Concerning The Terrorist Attacks In Madrid]]></title>
<link>http://news.psydir.com/Psychology-News/the-csic-presents-the-archive-of-mourning-concerning-the-terrorist-attacks-in-madrid/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:00:13 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The project, directed by CSIC researcher Cristina Sanchez Carretero was completed through close collaboration with associations for victims and those affected. On Thursday March 11, the project will end with its transfer to the Spanish Railway Foundation and the digitized catalog will be available for study with prior approval...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Development Of New Scale To Measure Anxiety Outcomes]]></title>
<link>http://news.psydir.com/Psychology-News/development-of-new-scale-to-measure-anxiety-outcomes/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:25 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A new questionnaire and outcomes measurement scale developed by the department of psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital has proven to be a reliable and valid measure of anxiety. The scale can easily be incorporated into routine clinical practice when treating psychiatric disorders. The study appears online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[In Hastings tomorrow]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:19 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm giving a talk to Hastings Humanists tomorrow, on the topic of why religion persists (cognitive biases, social factors etc). Come along if you happen to be in the area! It's at the Arts forum, St Leonards on Sea. This article by Tom Rees was first published on Epiphenom.  It is licensed under Creative Commons.    <br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Back to blightly]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:16 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apologies if updates are a little irregular, as I'm currently on my way back to the UK for a three week visit. This is largely because I've been asked to speak to the 'All-Party Parliamentary Group on Scientific Research in Learning and Education' about the evidence for whether computer games are damaging kids' brains. I kid you not. I shall also use the opportunity to catch up with the fantastic<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Research Looks At Beliefs About God's Influence In Everyday Life]]></title>
<link>http://news.psydir.com/Psychology-News/new-research-looks-at-beliefs-about-gods-influence-in-everyday-life/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:08 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Most Americans believe God is concerned with their personal well-being and is directly involved in their personal affairs, according to new research out of the University of Toronto. Using data from two recent national surveys of Americans, UofT Sociology Professor Scott Schieman examined peoples' beliefs about God's involvement and influence in everyday life...<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Path Integration in Humans]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:09 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I know you&#8217;ve all been waiting for it. We&#8217;ve talked about putting ants on stilts, kidnapping baby gerbils, and hijacking a truck full of geese. All in the name of science. Ants and gerbils taught us about the limitations of the path integration system, but also how amazingly cool it is. The geese suggested that [...]...	        Landau, B., Spelke, E., & Gleitman, H. (1984) Spatial kno<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Male Batterers Consistently Overestimate General Rates Of Violence Toward Partners]]></title>
<link>http://news.psydir.com/Psychology-News/male-batterers-consistently-overestimate-general-rates-of-violence-toward-partners/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:13 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the University of Washington...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Brain Activity Predicts Emotional Resiliency Following A Fight With A Partner]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:15 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Common wisdom tells us that for a successful relationship partners shouldn't go to bed angry. But new research from a psychologist at Harvard University suggests that brain activity - specifically in the region called the lateral prefrontal cortex - is a far better indicator of how someone will feel in the days following a fight with his or her partner...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are emotions in music universal?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:19 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While there are plenty of theories on how music and emotion might be related (see Juslin & Västfjäll, 2008 for a overview), there is still little empirical support to decide on how far music and specific associated emotions - such as happiness, fear, sadness or anger - are merely a result of association and/or culturally determined, or in fact shared and a result of brain mechanisms that we all s<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Massage Eases Anxiety, But No Better Than Simple Relaxation Does]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:18 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A new randomized trial shows that on average, three months after receiving a series of 10 massage sessions, patients had half the symptoms of anxiety. This improvement resembles that previously reported with psychotherapy, medications, or both...<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Role Of Baby-Sign In Child Development]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:24 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[How important is it for mothers to use hand gestures to communicate with their infants? This is the key question investigated by new research being showcased at the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Festival of Social Science on 18 March. The event 'Communicating with Your Baby' has been organised by Professor Karen Pine from the University of Hertfordshire...<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bridging the intention behaviour gap: Planning, self-efficacy, and action control in the adoption and maintenance of physical exercise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:11 EET</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In this paper from 2005 Sniehottaet al. examine why although some people develop an intention to change their health behaviour many do not follow through from intention to action.  The gap between the intention and behaviour has been called the ‘‘intention-behaviour gap.''  The authors examine factors which can be used to reduce the gap.  They examine action planning, perceived self-efficacy, and<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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