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• Spend time with family to beat financial stress

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, November 15 (ANI): Spending quality time with your kids and family is a good way to deal with financial stress, according to a new study.Martha Wadsworth, associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver (DU), insists that a family should spend more time together in order to remain happy.She ...
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• Utilise vacations to develop loving family ties

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Nov 14 (IANS) Families should utilise vacations to develop happy ties with loved ones, which is what really matters.“Psychological research has shown… that what truly makes people happy is not money, not stuff, it’s time with people you spend,” says Martha Wadsworth, associate professor of ...
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• First Impressions Count, Even Online

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 601
  We already know that first impressions can tell a lot about a person. You meet someone, you shake their hand, they smile, you smile back, you introduce yourself. Prior psychological research has suggested that even such a simple, basic interchange creates first impressions that are then difficult to change once made. ...
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• Pundit Contest Marred by Cluelessness about Psychology

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Has anyone ever made fun of you for your interest in psychology? The field is such an easy target. Personally, Ive always been proud to be a research psychologist. There are so many ways that a familiarity with the science of psychology can be good for you. Here Ill focus on one of my favorites - it can make you a ...
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• The Big 5 Model of Personality

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 601
  If you’ve taken a college psychology course or have any interest in personality, you’ve more than likely come across the term “Big Five” personality dimensions or personality traits. These have been gathered through the result of decades’ worth of psychological research into personality. While they don’t ...
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• The Mythbusters of Psychology

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 131
  Karl Popper said “Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myths.” Popular psychology is a prolific source of myths. It has produced widely held beliefs that “everyone knows are true” but that are contradicted by psychological research. A new book does an excellent job of mythbusting: 50 Great ...
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• Priming Toddlers to be Altruistic

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Drop a couple of pens in front of an eighteen-month-old toddler, and there is a decent chance your toddler will display a spontaneous act of altruism by picking them up for you. A recent experiment at the Max Planck Institute now shows that this kind of cooperative, altruistic behavior in toddlers can be increased ...
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• Search Rather than Surf the Web

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 579
  According to researchers, nearly 75 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis. Surprisingly, the method in which they look for information appears to influence how individuals comprehend or identify with the facts discovered in the search process. University of Missouri researchers found ...
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• Why Don’t We Help? Less Is More, at Least When It Comes to Bystanders

  
  The Social Thinker — Authority: 92
  On October 24th, 2009, as many as 20 witnesses watched as a 15 year old girl was brutally assaulted and raped outside a homecoming dance in Richmond, CA. The viciousness of the attack was shocking, but what was even more shocking was the fact that so many people witnessed the attack and yet failed to intervene or call ...
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• Depression And Clinical Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Today we know a lot more about depression, this disease is one of the common and dangerous mental conditions we can encounter in all societies and in all cultures, it is in fact, an across the board human situation which, in the last few years, significant achievements have been made.The understanding of depression ...
  2 weeks ago

• affirmations and research

  
  change therapy — Authority: 121
  a little while ago, a paper was published that suggests that positive thinking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be: positive self-statements are widely believed to boost mood and self-esteem, yet their effectiveness has not been demonstrated. we examined the contrary prediction that positive self-statements can be ...
  3 weeks ago

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