Category: Studies
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Emotion Without Frown Lines
Read more: Emotion Without Frown LinesFrom the Los Angeles Times: A Botox gap in understanding emotion: Not only do our facial expressions reflect our emotional ups and downs, they appear to send crucial feedback to our brain, suggests a growing body of research. Without that full feedback loop, our ability to understand — and be understood — might be constrained.
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Empathy Endangered?
Read more: Empathy Endangered?Headline: Shocker: Empathy Dropped 40% in College Students Since 2000. Without unstructured free time with playmates, children simply don’t get to know each other very well. And you can’t learn to connect and care if you don’t practice these things. Free play declined by at least a third between 1981 and 2003–right when the kids…
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Brain Weight Regained
Read more: Brain Weight RegainedPsychCentral again: Brain Changes with Anorexia Can Be Reversed. [With anorexia,] the excessive weight loss occurs from all human tissues, including the brain. A new study discovers that with appropriate treatment, adult brain volume can be regained.
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Kids See, Kids Do
Read more: Kids See, Kids DoA study at PsychCentral: Modeling Behavior for Children Has Long-Lasting Effects. For the experiments, the children were shown how to open a box — but in a complicated way, with impractical actions thrown in. For example, the adult would drag a stick across a box, then use a stick to open the box by pulling…
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Forgiveness v. Procrastination
Read more: Forgiveness v. ProcrastinationFrom PsyBlog: Procrastinate Less By Forgiving Yourself: Because we tend to avoid things that make us feel bad, pent up guilt about a task will make us avoid that task in the future. Self-forgiveness, though, may reduce guilt and so make us more likely to approach the task.