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• Science Figures Out Why Screams Are So Scary

  17-07-2015 20:44 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Google News - HealthWhat makes a scream a scream? New York University researchers tasked themselves with listening to people scream to find out that not all screams are equal -- and have published their findings in Current Biology. NYU psychology and neural science
  
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• Psychology Professor's Tricky Extra Credit Question Goes Viral

  17-07-2015 20:44 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: USA Today - U.S. NewsHis class had to choose between earning two or six extra credit points. But if too many chose six, everyone would lose.            .
  
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• How Keeping Up with the Joneses Could Save You Money

  17-07-2015 20:44 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: National Geographic NewsPeer pressure is helping save terawatts—yes, terawatts—of power. Would it influence you? Take our poll.
  
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• Yes, Animals Think and Feel; Here's How We Know

  17-07-2015 20:32 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: National Geographic NewsThe author of a new book also says that animals can feel empathy, like the humpback whale that rescued a seal.
  
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• Therapy Can Ease Insomnia, Even with Other Health Woes

  17-07-2015 20:32 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportStudy found cognitive behavioral therapy led to twice as many people getting a good night's sleep.
  
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• Several APA Leaders to Depart in Wake of U.S. Torture Probe

  17-07-2015 20:32 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Social Psychology Network NewsThe American Psychological Association has announced the departure of several leaders, including its chief executive officer, deputy CEO, and head of communications.
  
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• Most Campus Rapes Not Done by Serial Offenders, Study Finds

  17-07-2015 20:12 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthIf the findings are true, then focusing rape prevention efforts on serial offenders is misguided, the researchers say. "We’re not in this paper trying to say serial rapist don’t exist," said lead author Kevin Swartout of Georgia State University in Atlanta. In their paper in JAMA Pediatrics, he and his colleagues say the idea that a handful of men are behind most campus rapes comes from one study conducted at one college - and that study...
  
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• Kids Expecting Aggression From Others Become Aggressive Themselves

  17-07-2015 20:12 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceDailyHypervigilance to hostility in others triggers aggressive behavior in children, says a new study. The four-year longitudinal study, the largest of its kind involving 1,299 children and their parents, finds the pattern holds true in 12 different cultural groups from nine different counties across the globe.
  
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• Can Your Smartphone Tell You If You're Depressed?

  17-07-2015 20:12 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Google News - HealthGetting a diagnosis of depression usually involves filling out questionnaires about your mood and undergoing lengthy interviews with a psychiatrist. But smartphone apps might be able to handle some of that work, and at least tell you if you are...
  
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• Mindfulness Study to Track Impact of Meditation on 7,000 Teenagers

  17-07-2015 19:19 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: The GuardianPsychologists and neuroscientists from Oxford University and University College London plan unprecedented trial of impact of mindfulness on mental health Seven thousand teenagers wrestling with the churning emotions of adolescence, exam stress and peer pressure are to take part in an unprecedented trial of the impact of mindfulness meditation on mental health. Psychologists and neuroscientists from Oxford University and University College London...
  
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• Ireland Passes Law Allowing Trans People to Choose Their Legal Gender

  17-07-2015 19:13 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: The GuardianGender recognition bill will eliminate need for medical or state intervention and comes months after the country voted for same-sex marriage Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status after a law was passed allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state intervention. The majority of countries in Europe require transgender people to undergo surgery and sterilisation, or be diagnosed with a mental...
  
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• Google's ESPY Transgender Ad Breaks New Ground

  17-07-2015 19:13 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: USA Today - TechnologyThe ad ran moments before Caitlyn Jenner accepted the Ashe award to promote acceptance.
  
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• Emotional Caitlyn Jenner Accepts Ashe Courage Award at Espys

  17-07-2015 19:13 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesCaitlyn Jenner accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs on Wednesday night while urging acceptance for others who are transgender.
  
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• More sex please, but just don’t tell us to do it

  17-07-2015 16:00
  
  As a recent study proves, turning anything fun into a chore can ruin it, so how can we enjoy things without the obligation trap?A new study of the link between sex and happiness has been getting lots of media attention – presumably because it’s about sex, and for the staff of traffic-hungry media organisations, the experience of receiving vast numbers of clicks on a story about sex is, ironically and poignantly, better than sex. The headline finding is that more sex doesn’t
  
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• Brain training may help avoid civilian casualties

  17-07-2015 12:00
  
  New method may help predict and prevent mistaken shootingsAlthough firing a gun seems like one action, it is made up of many smaller decisions and movements that require coordination between...
  
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• Massive study: Birth order has no meaningful effect on personality or IQ

  17-07-2015 11:00
  
  For those who believe that birth order influences traits like personality and intelligence, a study of 377,000 high school students offers some good news: Yes, the study found, first-borns do have...
  
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• Club membership in teens linked to lower mortality in older age

  17-07-2015 11:00
  
  Did you belong to community, sports, or other clubs in your teens? If so, you might be more likely to survive into your late seventies, suggests a study in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of...
  
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• Clarifying prefrontal neurons' roles in flexible behavior

  17-07-2015 11:00
  
  UMass Amherst neuroscientist finds neuronal activity is nuanced and complexResults of a new study reported this week by David Moorman of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Gary...
  
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• Wearable devices: tracking your every step may not make you happier

  17-07-2015 10:55
  
  Self-tracking apps and devices allow us to monitor our behaviour, but we should be cautious in expecting them to drive improvements in our wellbeing“Fitter, happier, more productive” is a cynical line even by Radiohead’s standards. But the band’s song, released in 1997, did manage to predict the near future: an explosion of apps and wearable devices devoted to monitor people’s lives with the purpose of boosting self-control and suppressing naughty habits. This movement, referred to as
  
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• Surprise -- subtle distractors may divert action more than overt ones

  17-07-2015 10:00
  
  What should have been a straightforward psychology experiment at Brown University instead threw researchers a curve: When subjects performed the simple action of reaching toward a target on a...
  
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• Study: Health-care providers hold biases based on sexual orientation

  17-07-2015 10:00
  
  UW author says findings highlight need for more training of providers in cultural sensitivityIn the first study that looks at a variety of healthcare providers and their implicit attitudes...
  
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• Special part of brain registers screaming, scientists find

  17-07-2015 09:00
  
  Screams have a special acoustic property that draws the attention of the brain's fear response, scientists have found by analyzing a series of recordings.
  
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• Too much TV time for toddlers linked to risk of being bullied

  17-07-2015 07:01
  
  Study shows that as the number of hours of TV watching increased, so did the risk of being victimized by classmates in middle school.
  
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