A gap year between high school and the start of university studies does not weaken young people's enthusiasm to study or their overall performance once the studies have commenced...
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Reiki and psychotherapy
“Susan” walked into my office, shoulders slumped, clothes disheveled and hair unkempt. Eyes sunken, even the most mundane decision regarding where to sit challenged her on this day...
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Social factors may not be necessary to produce or explain conformity
Behavioral conformity has been studied extensively and is commonly explained in terms of social pressure or impact...
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Researchers trigger out-of-body illusion to unravel human perceptions of self-location
By inducing an out-of-body illusion in healthy adults, researchers have identified brain activity responsible for encoding our perceptions of body location...
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An apple a day brings more apples your way
We have all been told not to grocery shop on an empty stomach, but what other tips can help us shop, and consequently eat, healthier?...
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How to stop songs from getting stuck in our heads? Chew some gum!
25An effective solution to get rid of earworms, those annoying tunes that keep on re-playing in never ending loops in our heads, has been found by a team of scientists at the University of Reading, UK...
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A ‘forest instead of the trees’ viewpoint may motivate change after negative feedback
Negative feedback can sting, but thinking about the big picture may help transform criticism into positive change, according to new research published by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology...
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Texas A&M study finds we think better on our feet, literally
A study from the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health finds students with standing desks are more attentive than their seated counterparts..
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How experience may lead to misperception
How long is the way from the city hall to the train station? When we estimate distances, something curious happens: short distances seem longer, and long distances shorter than they really are...
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Scientists create the sensation of invisibility
The power of invisibility has long fascinated man and inspired the works of many great authors and philosophers. In a study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, a team of neuroscientists now reports a perceptual illusion of having an invisible body, and show that the feeling of invisibility changes our physical stress response in challenging social situations...
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