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Differences In Recovered Memories Of Childhood Sexual Abuse
When a child experiences a traumatic event it may not be until well into adulthood that they remember the incident. It's unknown how adults are able to retrieve long-forgotten memories...
Education, daytime hours, and job flexibility most help single moms of preschoolers
What contributes most to a nurturing home environment for three- to five-year-old children of single working mothers? A new University of Illinois study reports that the mother's education is the...
Workers need to feel wanted
The workplace is many people's primary social environment and feeling like an 'outsider' can cause a range of mental health problems, research has found.
Breastfeeding mums neglect kids less
Australian researchers have found that mothers who breastfeed are more then four times less likely to neglect their children later in life.
For Children, Talking and Walking May Be Dangerous
In an interactive simulation, children crossing streets were more likely to suffer a virtual accident if they were gabbing on a cellphone.
Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations, brain scans suggest
A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to 'get lost' in a good book - suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights,...
Shaken Self-confidence? Certain Products And Activities Can Fix It
Someone who has momentarily lost confidence in her intelligence is more likely to purchase a pen than a candy bar, according to a new study. The pen helps restore her...
Steven Pinker on Roberts-speak
If you haven't yet seen it, check out this New York Times editorial by Harvard Professor of Psychology, Steven Pinker. It is an analysis of (perhaps) why Chief Justice Roberts...
'Happiness gap' in the US narrows
Happiness inequality in the U.S. has decreased since the 1970s, according to research published this month in the Journal of Legal Studies. read more
Preferential Treatment: How What We Like Defines What We Know
Preference by itself can influence categorization, according to a new study in Psychological Science. The participants in the positive group sorted the symbols into finer, more specific categories compared to...
Daily School Recess Improves Classroom Behavior
All work and no play may impede learning, health and social development. A large study of shows that school children who receive more recess behave better and are likely to...
Trust Your Gut: Too Much Thinking Leads To Bad Choices
Don't think too much before purchasing that new car or television. According to a new study, people who deliberate about decisions make less accurate judgments than people who trust their...
Remember That Time? New Study Demystifies Consumer Memory
If a vacation starts out bad and gets better, you'll have a more positive memory than if it starts out good and gets worse -- if you're asked about it...
Newborn infants detect the beat in music
Researchers at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three...
Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God
Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in
Risk Factors That Affected World Trade Center Evacuation Identified
Researchers have identified factors that affected evacuation from the World Trade Center Towers on Sep. 11, 2001. A research methodology known as participatory action research (PAR) was used to identify...
New "test tube" technique offers pregnancy hopes
LONDON (Reuters) - A British team has for the first time successfully used a new "test tube" fertilization technique that better predicts which of a woman's eggs will most likely...
In Wyeth, Pfizer Sees a Drug Pipeline
Pfizer’s planned acquisition of Wyeth is a validation of Wyeth’s decision to reduce its reliance on small-molecule drugs.
Five Years of the Worst Jobs in Science
Think your job’s bad? Try dragging a bedspread around tick-ridden thickets, pausing regularly in the 100-degree heat not to squeegee the sweat from your brow but to tweeze dozens of...
Preferential treatment: How what we like defines what we know
It is no secret that you know more (that is, have expertise) about things you are interested in. If you hate baseball, you are not going to spend your spare...
Many Americans Much Happier Now
Key groups of people in the United States have grown happier over the past few decades, while other have become less so.
British manners doomed Titanic passengers
British passengers on board the sinking Titanic died while politely queuing to get their place on a lifeboat, while Americans pushed their way on, according to new analysis of passenger...
Brothers in Arms: Civil War Laboratory
No experiment can ethically test how humans behave in life-or-death situations. But two UCLA economists dug up the records of 41,000 Union soldiers from the American Civil War to see...
8 insights gleaned from brain science research
Does political bias distort rational thought? Can we teach ourselves compassion? Is technology overload rewiring our brains? These are some of the questions scientists are pursuing in the quest to...
New tactics to tackle bystander's role in bullying
A new psychodynamic approach to bullying in schools has been successfully trialled by UCL (University College London) and US researchers. CAPSLE (Creating a Peaceful School Learning Environment) is a groundbreaking...
Science Weekly podcast: Which sex has better arm control, plus Obama's scientific promise
In the pod this week, Professor Geoff Sanders, a psychologist from London Metropolitan University, and Maya Mendiratta from the Science Museum's Dana Centre. They discuss gender stereotypes and testing them...
Bad Science: Blue Monday? That's just too depressing, says Ben Goldacre
Ah yes, Dr Cliff Arnall's equation for the most depressing day of the year - the third Monday in January. This started life as a corporate puff for Sky Travel...
Health | Jersey City: A Soap Opera’s Sex Is All for a Good Cause
A soap-opera style project is designed to change attitudes about safe sex among young women.