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What factors influence children's learning of fear?
Many fears develop during childhood. And the scientific literature is quite clear: learning to fear through observation is common especially in children who take their parents as models and learn to fear a stimulus without ...
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Depression, anxiety tied to higher health care use with inflammatory bowel disease
Worsening or persistently high anxiety or depression symptoms are tied to significantly higher use of health care among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study published in the February issue ...
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What kinds of people 'catfish'? Study finds they have higher psychopathy, sadism and narcissism
Online dating has revolutionized romance, creating more opportunities to meet potential partners than ever before.
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How can publishers support the authors of trauma memoirs, as they unpack their pain for the public?
Would you publish the worst thing that ever happened to you?
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Resilience in the face of disaster: New reports examine mental health and bushfires
A long-term study led by UNSW Sydney researchers has analyzed older Canberrans' mental health during the 2019/2020 bushfires.
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What drives children to choose compassion?
University of Queensland researchers have found children will help people in distress unless there is a personal cost.
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AI could improve mental health care by helping doctors analyze patients' answers
Patients are often asked to rate their feelings using a rating scale, when talking to psychologists or doctors about their mental health. This is currently how depression and anxiety are diagnosed. However, a new study from ...
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How running can help you cope with stress at work
If grabbing your trainers and heading out for a run is your way of coping with a stressful week at work, you're not alone. According to England Athletics, more than 6 million adults in England ran at least once a week in ...
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Psychological stress impedes performance, even for Olympic athletes
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were unique not just for taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic but for being the first athletic event to measure and broadcast competitors' heart rates as world-class archers took a shot at Olympic ...
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Serial dependence bias: Does it affect higher- or lower-order processing of perception?
Serial dependence is a bias affecting perceptual experience, in which what you currently perceive tends to be biased toward what you have perceived immediately before. This phenomenon has been observed in tasks using different ...
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Social media use linked to symptoms of muscle dysmorphia among Canadian boys and young men
Prior research has shown strong links between greater time spent on screens and eating disorders and body dissatisfaction. A new study, published in the journal Eating and Weight Disorders—Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, ...
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New year health kick losing momentum? Scientists find key to curb the cravings
Psychologists from the University of Aberdeen have identified a key factor that can make healthy food more appealing and may help curb cravings for calorific snacks.
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How diet affects a child's mental health
Children who have a healthy diet throughout their childhood have better mental health when they are eight years old. This is shown by one of the largest surveys of its kind, according to researchers from the University of ...
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Paying attention to faces may be linked with psychopathology levels and 'big five' personality traits
A person's personality and psychopathology levels may be associated with how strongly they prefer to focus on human faces within images, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Marius Rubo from ...
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Being bullied is associated with mental distress and suicide attempts in teens
Some forms of bullying are significantly correlated with feeling sad or hopeless and attempting suicide, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by John Rovers of Drake University, ...
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How to get your kids to talk about their feelings
Emotions are core to our human experience, but seeing "negative" emotions in our children—anger, fear, jealousy, envy, sadness, resentment—can make us uncomfortable.
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How to cope when you lose access to a digital world you love
US games developer Blizzard Activision has become embroiled in worldwide litigation relating to its proposed acquisition by Microsoft. It has also fallen out with its Chinese distributor NetEase. This might sound like news ...
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Study finds youth suicide rates increased during COVID-19 pandemic, especially among particular subgroups
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for individuals aged 5–24 years in the United States, and a significant public health concern. Data suggest depression, anxiety and social isolation increased during the COVID-19 ...
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New research shows female selfie posting can be driven by aggression
New research from Swansea University shows that female selfie posting is associated with intimidatory self-presentation strategies, linked to higher levels of aggression.
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Pandemic compounded challenges for people struggling with eating disorders
For almost two decades—from high school to when she was a 35-year-old graduate student—Alicia Castaneda Hatfield struggled with an eating disorder without ever talking with a doctor about it.
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