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Childhood stress leaves lasting mark on genes
“What we’re finding is that after 10 years or so there are still markers, like fossils in our genome, telling us there was a trauma here. And that trauma may make this individual more susceptible to a...
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Meditation affects brain networks differently in long-term meditators and...
“Both long-term practitioners and new meditators – when compared to non-meditators – showed reduced activity in the amygdala when they viewed emotionally-positive images. The amygdala is an area of...
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An Alternative View of Human Nature | Psychology Today
“The !Kung of Africa swap arrows before going hunting, and when an animal is killed, the credit does not go to the person who fired the arrow, but to the person whom the arrow belongs to. If a person...
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It’s Official - Trigger Warnings Might Actually Be Harmful
“The results of the sutdy were fascinating.” After controlling for various factors, such as sex, race, age, psychiatric history, and political orientation, the researchers found that those...
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New evidence for the “propinquity effect” – mere physical closeness increases...
“In one, a group of male participants read lines from a modern musical version of Romeo and Juliet with an unfamiliar woman (actually a confederate helping the researchers) who was sitting either 80...
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Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Your Personality By Simply Tracking Your...
“It’s often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that your eyes may also be an indicator of your personality type,...
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Why Westerners Fear Robots and the Japanese Do Not | WIRED
“We have a strong negative emotional response when someone kicks or abuses a robot—in one of the many gripping examples Darling cites in her paper, a US military officer called off a test using a...
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Mysterious new brain cell found in people
“To precisely classify these cells, the scientists then analyzed their gene expression. That’s when they realized that the set of genes expressed in these inhibitory rosehip neurons doesn’t closely...
View ArticleDepression in 20s linked to memory loss in 50s, psychologists find
via Depression in 20s linked to memory loss in 50s, psychologists find “They found that one episode of depression or anxiety had little effect on the memory function of adults in midlife, regardless of...
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Study shows people give up part of themselves when acting
“In this new effort, the researchers noticed that when actors become their characters, they take on characteristics similar to those seen in indigenous people in Brazil during possession ceremonies....
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