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• Neuroscience of bullying: Why do some find it rewarding?

  02-07-2016 09:00
  
  Breaking research investigates the reward circuits involved in unnecessary aggression. The findings give new insights into the origins of bullying.
  
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• How to stay happy when the sky is falling in

  02-07-2016 09:00
  
  Brexit, Zika, gun violence, the England football team: there’s been no shortage of bad news lately. Here’s how to look on the bright sideSeen from a certain perspective, the last few months on planet Earth have been pretty unreservedly amazing. Nobody died from smallpox. Almost nobody contracted polio. Hospital operating theatres weren’t generally filled with the screams of patients undergoing surgery without anaesthetic, and no war claimed anything like the single-day death to
  
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• Magnets Make People Think of Love, Study Finds

  02-07-2016 08:55 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: Yahoo News - ScienceAnimal magnetism may be a more literal concept than it's given credit for, according to a new study that finds that people are more attracted to their romantic partners after playing with magnets. The idea holds that when people are "primed" or prompted to think about a particular concept — such as physical magnetic attraction — it affects their cognition in surprising ways.
  
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• Estimate of Transgender Adults in U.S. Doubles to 1.4 Million

  02-07-2016 08:54 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthAbout 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender, double a widely used previous estimate, according to an analysis based on new federal and state data.
  
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• Binge-Eating Disorder Can Be Treated with Talk Therapy or Drugs

  02-07-2016 08:54 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthPeople with recurring episodes of binge-eating can be helped with talk therapy or medication, according to a new review of previous studies. People with binge-eating disorder have brief, psychologically distressing binge-eating episodes multiple times a week for at least three months. The disorder is linked to mental health problems, chronic pain, obesity and diabetes, the researchers write in Annals of Internal Medicine.
  
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• Whites and Blacks in U.S. Often Disagree on Racism, Poll Finds

  02-07-2016 08:53 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: BBC News - AmericasViews on racial discrimination and race in the US differ wildly among blacks and whites, a new report from the Pew Research Center has found. Most blacks say they are treated unfairly and do not feel that racial equality has been achieved in the US, according to the report. Eighty-eight percent of blacks surveyed think the country must change, but only 55% of whites.
  
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• "Ghostbusters" Backlash Raises Questions About Sexism in Hollywood

  02-07-2016 08:52 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesAn all-female reboot of "Ghostbusters" hits theaters next month amid a savage backlash by Internet trolls that has thrown the spotlight back onto Hollywood's gender discrimination problem.
  
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• Is Climate Change Threatening Mental Health?

  02-07-2016 08:50 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: APA MonitorPeople's anxiety and distress about the implications of climate change are undermining mental health and well-being, according to a new federal report reviewing existing research on the topic. Issued by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the report is the first time the federally mandated group has published an assessment solely focused on climate change and health.
  
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• Trauma induces more alcohol craving than stress among veterans with PTSD and co-occurring alcohol dependence

  02-07-2016 00:34
  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol dependence (AD) are two of the most common and debilitating disorders diagnosed among American military veterans. AD and PTSD often occur together, and this co-occurrence has a worse prognosis than either disorder alone. Alcohol craving is related to relapse, but the relationship between PTSD symptoms, craving, and relapse is not well understood. This study is the first to explore the effects of trauma-induced and stress-induced imagery on alcoho
  
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• Cerebrovascular disease linked to Alzheimer's

  02-07-2016 00:33
  While strokes are known to increase risk for dementia, much less is known about diseases of large and small blood vessels in the brain, separate from stroke, and how they relate to dementia. Diseased blood vessels in the brain itself, which commonly is found in elderly people, may contribute more significantly to Alzheimer's disease dementia than was previously believed, according to new study.
  
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