Celebrities: the more we know about them, the less we like them, says new study
Newswise — DURHAM, N.H. – Clint Eastwood’s famous interview with an invisible President Obama seated in an empty chair at the Republican National Convention may have done more than elicit a round of...
View ArticleTalking politics with friends is risky
PROVO, UT–(Marketwire – Sep 26, 2012) – Romney and Obama aren’t the only ones taking sides in intense debates this election season. According to a new poll from VitalSmarts and the authors of the New...
View ArticleSmoking in the movies on the rise
Top box office films last year showed more onscreen smoking than the prior year, reversing five years of steady progress in reducing tobacco imagery in movies, according to a new UCSF study. Moreover,...
View ArticleEating and physical activity and young adults’ weight status: what...
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2012 Apr 2;9:35. doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-9-35. How significant is the ‘significant other’? Associations between significant others’ health behaviors and attitudes and young...
View ArticleAnger in preschool tied to toddler language skills
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Toddlers with more developed language skills are better able to manage frustration and less likely to express anger by the time they’re in preschool. That’s the conclusion of a...
View ArticlePoll of psychologists cites emotions as top obstacle to successful weight loss
WASHINGTON – When it comes to losing weight, a popular New Year’s resolution for many, people often focus on eating less and exercising more. But results of a new survey of psychologists suggest...
View ArticleMiddle school kids and popularity
Although popular boys and girls get more attention from their classmates than less popular peers, they are often unconsciously avoided by those same classmates. These were the conclusions drawn by...
View ArticleGreat gift for anyone who hasn’t quite grown up yet
If you graduated from college but still feel like a student . . . if you wear a business suit to job interviews but pajamas to the grocery store . . . if you have your own apartment but no … Continue...
View ArticleDesire to drink may be curbed by improving feelings of control
(Reuters Health) – The authors of a new study say that manipulating alcohol drinkers’ sense of control can counteract the negative feelings that motivate them to drink. People who have a strong sense...
View ArticleEmotional self-centeredness: new insight
Children are more egocentric than adults. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have demonstrated for the first time that children are also worse...
View ArticleWorkplace meanness: how to cope
By Amy Gallo When a colleague is mean to you, it can be hard to know how to respond. Some people are tempted to let aggressive behavior slide in the hopes that the person will stop. Others find...
View ArticleTeens whose parents exert more psychological control have trouble with...
For teenagers, learning to establish a healthy degree of autonomy and closeness in relationships (rather than easily giving in to peer pressure) is an important task. A new longitudinal study has...
View ArticlePacifiers may have psychological consequences
Pacifiers may stunt the emotional development of baby boys by robbing them of the opportunity to try on facial expressions during infancy. Three experiments by a team of researchers led by...
View ArticleTo Stay Focused, Manage Your Emotions
A leader’s most precious resource is not their time. It’s their focused attention. Time merely passes, while focused attention makes things happen. When we’re able to gather and direct our attention...
View ArticleDon’t Let Emotions Screw Up Your Decisions: Harvard Business Review
Think about a time you were weighing an important decision at work or considering a big expense such as a buying a house, making a hefty financial investment, or a starting a new business. Such...
View ArticleWhy you are, probably, a horrible person when you drive
Here’s a scenario that should be familiar: You’re driving along on the highway. Suddenly, without signaling, a massive SUV comes barreling into your lane from the right, forcing you to jam on the...
View ArticleThe Single Best Piece of Marriage Advice Ever Given
First, some numbers: I’ve been married (to the same person) for twenty-seven years. Those twenty-seven years have included six in which we were researching an anthology about marriage. That anthology...
View ArticleRising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness
Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show...
View ArticleHow to Get Better at Expressing Emotions
The term “emotional intelligence” has now reigned for 20 years. Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book of the same name popularized the idea that the capacity to understand and wield emotional information is a...
View ArticleSelf-help books usually don’t help
Reading self-help books should help you feel, well, better, right? Wrong. In fact, readers of self-help books are more sensitive to stress and show more depressive symptoms than those who don’t read...
View Article‘Uber For Breakups’ Will Dump Your Boyfriend Over Snapchat For $5
Is it just not working out? Soon that busted old relationship could be gone in a Snap . The Breakup Shop, a company that’s been likened to Uber for breakups, already offers a variety...
View ArticlePeople Who Experience Rage Attacks Have Smaller ‘Emotional Brains’
Reports new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Neuroimaging studies suggest that frontolimbic regions of the brain, structures that regulate emotions, play an...
View ArticleWhat Feeling Well Actually Means
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Giovanni fava (Italy) and Per Bech (Denmark) analyze the clinical meaning of feeling well, which is indicated by the Greek word of euthymia. In...
View ArticleBecoming an Adult Through Divorce
So far in our series we’ve heard from readers who felt they reached adulthood through a variety of significant emotional events: abandoned by parents at an early age, getting busted by the cops,...
View ArticleParents of ‘Difficult’ Children More Likely to Use iPads to Calm Kids Down?
Newswise — ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It may be tempting to hand an iPad or Smartphone to a tantrum-throwing child – and maybe more so for some parents. Children with social and emotional difficulties in low...
View ArticleADHD or just immature?
Cincinnati, OH, March 10, 2016 — Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is typically diagnosed in childhood and manifests as an inability to sustain attention and control activity levels and...
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