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• It's not your fault if you're unhappy – and it won't make you sick either | Ruth Whippman

  12-12-2015 12:30
  
  New research shows that unhappy and stressed people are no more likely to succumb to ill-health or premature death than their cheerier counterpartsThe happiness industry – now contracted to consult with everyone from corporate America to the US military – thinks your well-being is a matter of individual effort and personal responsibility. This is the American dream applied to the soul: the faith that if we put in enough emotional elbow grease, if we read enough self-help books and pr
  
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• Men are 'better at finding the way than women'

  12-12-2015 09:00
  
  Differences in men's and women's brains reflect different approaches to navigation. Men appear to have more effective navigational strategies, with implications for Alzheimer's.
  
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• Scientists Create Machine That "Learns" Like a Human

  12-12-2015 07:28 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesScientists have invented a machine that imitates the way the human brain learns new information, a step forward for artificial intelligence, researchers reported. The system described in the journal Science is a computer model "that captures humans' unique ability to learn new concepts from a single example," the study said. Joshua Tenenbaum, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT), said he wanted to build...
  
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• Latest Mass Shootings Prompt Experts to Overhaul Theories Explaining Them

  12-12-2015 07:28 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: The GuardianProfilers work toward new understanding of what drives ‘mission-oriented maximum violence’ and how to stop it, as earlier theories fall out of favour. Criminal profilers and behavioural analysts struggling to understand the impulses that lead to mass shootings like last week’s carnage in San Bernardino are racing to update their prediction and prevention models as the problem evolves in new, previously unthinkable directions. A generation ago..
  
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• Childhood Bullying Tied to Later Mental Health Problems

  12-12-2015 07:28 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthPreventing childhood bullying may also help curb the need for treatment of psychiatric problems in early adulthood, suggests a new study that followed more than 5,000 children in Finland.
  
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• ADHD Diagnoses Soar 43 Percent in United States

  12-12-2015 07:28 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesThe prevalence of ADHD diagnoses soared 43 percent in the United States in the first decade of the century, with more than one in 10 youths now diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, researchers said Tuesday.
  
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• U.S. Mentally Ill 16 Times More Likely to Be Killed by Police

  12-12-2015 06:46 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: USA Today - Top StoriesPeople with mental illness 16 times more likely to be killed by police, study finds...
  
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• Starting the World's Only Transgender Bodybuilding Competition

  12-12-2015 06:46 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: CNN - HealthFour years ago, Neo Sandja decided to get drunk and throw himself in front of a speeding car.
  
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• Female Mass Killers: Why They're So Rare

  12-12-2015 06:46 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - ScienceAs last week's shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, unfolded, the narrative seemed sickeningly familiar: A few moments of chaos ending in multiple deaths. Female mass killers are "so rare that it just hasn't been studied," said James Garbarino, a psychologist at Loyola University Chicago who has researched human development and violence. Women commit only about 10 percent to 13 percent of homicides n the United...
  
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• Eating Disorder Program Lowers Brain Reward Response to Supermodels

  12-12-2015 06:46 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceDailyAt baseline, when young women at risk for eating disorders viewed images of supermodels while undergoing fMRI, a reward valuation region of their brains was activated. After the intervention, this reward valuation was more activated by exposure to images of healthy, normal weight women than by exposure to thin models. Participants in the control condition did not show this change.
  
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