Category: Studies
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Late-Life Happiness
Read more: Late-Life HappinessFrom ScienceDaily.com, Researchers Identify Secrets to Happiness, Depression Among Oldest of Old. Quick summary: To be happy later, try more happiness now. While there was no indication that resources affect happiness, past life satisfaction — even individual achievements — was found to have a direct association. Because of their results, the researchers urge caregivers of the…
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Empathy and Violence Vie for Brain Space
Read more: Empathy and Violence Vie for Brain SpaceA brain imaging study shows empathy and violence share circuitry in the brain. “We all know that encouraging empathy has an inhibiting effect on violence, but this may not only be a social question but also a biological one — stimulation of these neuronal circuits in one direction reduces their activity in the other.”
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Hooking Up v. Dating
Read more: Hooking Up v. DatingIt may not have taken a psych study to figure out that there’s a gender split regarding feelings about hooking up among college students. But of interest: all still prefer dating to hooking up–or at least say they do to a psych researcher.
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Self-Control Studies
Read more: Self-Control StudiesA pair of studies about self-control spotlit at PsyBlog: Self-Control Instantly Replenished by Self-Affirmation How to Increase Your Self-Control Without Really Trying See if you can keep yourself from clicking through.
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Transcendental Meditation for Depression
Read more: Transcendental Meditation for DepressionPsychCentral has news about two studies showing that Transcendental Meditation (TM) helps reduce depression…at least for African-Americans and Hawaiians over 55. Participants in both studies who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant reductions in depressive symptoms compared to health education controls. The largest decreases were found in those participants who had indications of clinically…