Psychological research affirms that we are all partial prisoners of our own preferences and have a hard time seeing the world from a different perspective.
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The latest psychological research indicates that the amount of thought you put into a gift has very little impact on how much the recipient likes the gift, let alone how much they bond with you.
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It is my hope that Hitched will one day be in a position to help fund and share with the rest of the world marriage and family research, sociological and psychological research and much more.
Nobody knows for certain, but the British Psychological Society research blog reported on a study that gets us closer to a few answers.
The research suggests such "psychological warfare" is sapping children's love of sport.
Research presented to the British Psychological Society's conference in London has claimed that the early socialising in nursery schools will make children five times more likely to have friends in later years.
That helps explain why "a lot of great ideas occur at transition times, " when people are waking up or falling asleep, bathing, showering or jogging, says Jennifer Wiley, a psychology professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and lead author of a 2012 research summary in Current Directions in Psychological Science.
According to the research, being presented to a British Psychological Society conference in Leeds on Sunday, those at the edge of groups, such as non-sporting children and loners, were more likely to suffer emotional bullying.
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Tipton, who conducts research on the human body's physiological and psychological response to adverse environments, found that it takes as few as five immersions in icy water for the body to develop a tolerance that can reduce the risk of cold-shock response by half.
David Brodzinsky, a Rutgers University professor emeritus and a leader in the field of adoption research, says he's not surprised that some psychological problems were more common in a group of adopted children.
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, Patrick Leman of Royal Holloway, a college of the University of London, has presented the results of his research into conspiracy theories to the annual meeting of the British Psychological Society, which was held last week in Bournemouth.
While the trend in psychological health has been increasingly to increase the drugs and decrease the therapy, research continues to show that various talk therapy methods, like cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) are extraordinarily effective.
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We know from other research (coincidentally discussed on NPR this morning) that participation in sports and exercise increases psychological well-being among young people.
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Our research, which will appear in the Academy of Management Journal, suggests that simple, psychological interventions can have a potent effect, perhaps as potent as costly compliance initiatives.
According to research led by Kevin Rounding at Queen's University in Ontario and recently published in Psychological Science, Rabbi Wolpe is right: People are better able to resist their desires when thinking about God.
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New research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that presidents and psychopaths share a psychological trait that may shed light on what made Teddy such a unique character.
In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman cites compelling research done in the lab of Dr. Kathleen Vohs at the University of Minnesota on the psychological effects of money on human behavior.
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The research team behind the report also published a follow-up paper in 2010, in the American Psychological Association's journal, saying there should be "public education" so parents and schools could address the issue.
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