Category: Studies
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The Art and Science of Influence
Read more: The Art and Science of InfluencePsyBlog posts the latest on how to win friends and influence people. The art and science of persuasion is often discussed as though changing people’s minds is about using the right arguments, the right tone of voice or the right negotiation tactic. But effective influence and persuasion isn’t just about patter, body language or other…
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Friends for Life
Read more: Friends for LifeNYT: A New Risk Factor: Your Social Life Social relationships are just as important to health as other common risk factors like smoking, lack of exercise or obesity, new research shows…The researchers concluded that having few friends or weak social ties to the community is just as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking…
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Mom’s Affection (Would’ve) Helped
Read more: Mom’s Affection (Would’ve) HelpedPsychCentral: Early Life Experiences Boost Adult Mental Health. A new study suggests infants who receive strong affection from their mothers are well equipped to cope with life stressors as adults. Although the sample is small, the research is meaningful. Most prior studies have relied on recall; few have tracked participants from childhood to adult life,…
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Stereotypes v. Learning
Read more: Stereotypes v. LearningPsychCentral: Harmful Stereotypes Hinder Learning and Performance. Through a series of experiments involving Chinese characters and color judgment tasks, the researchers were able to show that actual learning had not occurred in the group of women who had been reminded of the negative stereotypes involving women’s math and visual processing ability.
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Phone Therapy
Read more: Phone TherapyThe Los Angeles Times looks at phone therapy (it works). The therapist-patient relationship is crucial to people battling depression, addiction, weight gain and diabetes. But that relationship might not always have to be in person to be effective…