Professor Dieter Wolke, from the University of Hertfordshire's department of psychology, said the study showed the benefits of bullying were not restricted to health alone.
"We saw a steeper decline in heart rate and a faster physiological stress recovery when they were smiling, " even though the participants weren't aware they were making facial expressions, says Sarah Pressman, co-author of the study and an assistant psychology professor at University of California, Irvine.
University of Virginia professor of psychology Jonathan Haidt is a pioneer in the scientific study of moral emotion and cognition.
But psychology, and the study of human history, shows us that as humans, we are unconsciously making future decisions based on instincts honed by, and visceral reactions to, our past experiences.
Chris McManus, a professor of psychology at University College London who has made a study of the pros and cons of left-handedness, said it was true that left-handers did have an advantage in a fight.
Sociology was not yet a discipline, but before the century was out, mass idealisation of this sort would lend itself to the scientific study of charisma and group psychology.
Results were similar across industries, says Eden King, one of the study's researchers and an associate professor of psychology at George Mason University.
Consider the findings of a study in this month's issue of Social Psychology, examining how the "mere presence" of a cell phone -- even when it is not being used -- influences people's performance on complex mental tasks.
James Danckert, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, recently conducted a study to compare the physiological effects of boredom and sadness.
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An "artificial barrier" helps eaters decide when to stop, says Andrew Geier, lead author of the study published in Health Psychology.
Dr Juliane Kaminski, from the University of Portsmouth's psychology department, said the study was "incredible because it implies dogs understand the human can't see them, meaning they might understand the human perspective".
Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, study author from the department of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, said the noise stimulation group showed improvements in cognitive and brain functions compared with the control group.
Citing a study published in the Spanish Journal of Psychology, Frankel and Frohlinger note that women are more likely to feel guilty because they are socialized to be considerate of the needs and feelings of others.
In 2002, professors Daniel Gould and Kristen Dieffenbach published a study in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology which noted that Olympic champions display higher levels of specific attributes directly linked to success, in particular emotional intelligence.
"Elevated wealth status seems to make you want even more, and that increased want leads you to bend the rules or break the rules to serve your self-interest, " says Paul Piff, the lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in psychology at the university.
At the end of her tour of duty, Westheimer moved to Paris to study psychology at the Sorbonne.
The study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, contradicts the idea that being under pressure leads to bad habits like over-eating or shopping sprees.
Last month Kim, working with three graduate students and one undergrad, published her results in the Asian American Journal of Psychology (Slate has an interesting article today on the study).
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In a 2009 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, David Lubinski and his team at Vanderbilt found that in a sample of academically gifted young adults, women became less career-oriented than men over time.
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In a 2005 study from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, people who wrote one-sentence e-mails were supremely overconfident in both their ability to communicate and their ability to detect sarcasm, seriousness, anger and sadness over e-mail.
Stephanie Denison, a psychology professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, and Fei Xu, a psychology professor at University of California, Berkeley, recently completed a study under review for publication which showed that infants have some knowledge of probabilities.
The study, scheduled to be published in the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise, was sponsored by swimwear company Speedo International Ltd.
This study, published in Personnel Psychology, compares two groups of activities that aim to increase company productivity: those related to human resources, such as training and teamwork, and those related to operational management, such as just-in-time production and total-quality management.
In a recent study, Paul Morris, a psychology professor at the University of Portsmouth in England, found that wearing high heels led to "higher attractiveness ratings" by both male and female observers, but the higher of those ratings were cast by women.
The study was published online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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The study appears in the January 2011 issue of the journal Developmental Psychology.
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Researchers in the second study, published earlier this year in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, challenged the notion that praise is always good for kids, and found its impact depends on how it is phrased.
When researchers tried to lift the grades of struggling college students by raising their self-esteem, the students' grades got worse, according to a 2007 study of 86 students published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
"Facebook likes have a meaning that we can use to understand the psychology behind what people do, " says David Stillwell, a co-author of the study.
The computer simulation showing the time-stamp effect in the study is novel and original, said Joe Manns, assistant professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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