Category: Studies
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Happiness and Stuff
Read more: Happiness and StuffFrom PsyBlog: Six Psychological Reasons Consumer Culture is Unsatisfying re why stuff doesn’t make you happy. Unless… [T]hinking of material purchases in experiential terms helps banish dissatisfaction. Try thinking of jeans in terms of where you wore them or how they feel, the mp3 player in terms of how the music changes your mood or outlook,…
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Diet and Alzheimer’s
Read more: Diet and Alzheimer’sFrom the NYT: Diet May Be Linked to Lower Alzheimer’s Risk in Older People. Starts this way: Older adults appear to be at lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease if they eat a diet rich in fish, poultry, fruit, nuts, dark leafy greens, vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower, and oil-and-vinegar dressing, a new study has found.
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Exercise Science
Read more: Exercise ScienceResearch gathered for an NYT article, Weighing the Evidence on Exercise. The newest science suggests that exercise alone will not make you thin, but it may determine whether you stay thin, if you can achieve that state.
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Speed Dating Overwhelm
Read more: Speed Dating OverwhelmToo many choices, at the grocery store or in dating, can lead to hasty decision-making–or so says a study reported at PsychCentral: In this environment, researchers found that people respond by paying attention to different types of characteristics – discarding attributes such as education, smoking status, and occupation in favor of physical characteristics such as…
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Online CBT for Panic and Depression
Read more: Online CBT for Panic and DepressionA doctoral thesis out of Stockholm gives a boost to the growing practice of online therapy.