http://phys.org/health-news/psychology/ en-us Phys.Org provides the latest news on psychology, psychological disorders, psychological condition, psychological diseases and psychological science. Some clothing firms in the United States are marketing sexy garments for pre-teen girls, reinforcing a destructive stereotype of female attractiveness, research released on Monday said. http://phys.org/news224153705.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 09 May 2011 09:55:24 EST news224153705 Women, being from Venus, have a reputation for being the first to spring "I love you" in romantic relationships. http://phys.org/news222955354.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:50:01 EST news222955354 (PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you're dating, job seeking, or running for office, an attractive face can get you far. But what makes a face attractive? Most studies have found we’re drawn to “average” faces, as well as those whose features fit conventionally with one gender or the other -- “masculinity” in men, “femininity” in women. http://phys.org/news222510278.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:00:01 EST news222510278 We all know that people at opposite ends of the political spectrum often really can't see eye to eye. Now, a new report published online on April 7th in Current Biology reveals that those differences in political orientation are tied to differences in the very structures of our brains. http://phys.org/news221400104.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:02:11 EST news221400104 (PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people tend to make inappropriate comments in social situations? Why do some people misread cues about how others feel about them? http://phys.org/news221216668.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:04:53 EST news221216668 Like a jab in the arm with a red-hot poker, social rejection hurts. Literally. A new study finds that our brains make little distinction between the sting of being rebuffed by peers - or by a lover, boss or family member - and the physical pain that arises from disease or injury. The new findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://phys.org/news221160435.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:30:45 EST news221160435 (PhysOrg.com) -- People will suffer more pain for their close friends than for their acquaintances and sometimes more than they would for themselves, an Oxford University scientist has found. http://phys.org/news220884943.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:30:05 EST news220884943 Children suffering from extreme social anxiety are trapped in a nightmare of misinterpreted facial expressions: They confuse angry faces with sad ones, a new Emory University study shows. http://phys.org/news220785038.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:10:57 EST news220785038 Most people have had trouble remembering something they just heard. Now, a University of Missouri researcher found that forgetfulness may have something to do with being in a good mood. Elizabeth Martin, a doctoral student of psychology in the College of Arts and Science, has found that being in a good mood decreases your working memory capacity. http://phys.org/news220703520.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:32:14 EST news220703520 Physical pain and intense feelings of social rejection "hurt" in the same way, a new study shows. http://phys.org/news220546502.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:55:20 EST news220546502 (PhysOrg.com) -- Being low mouse on the totem pole is tough on murine self-esteem. It turns out it has measurable effects on brain chemistry, too, according to recent experiments at Rockefeller University. Researchers found that mice that were bullied persistently by dominant males grew unusually nervous around new company, and that the change in behavior was accompanied by heightened sensitivity to vasopressin, a hormone involved in a variety of social behaviors. The findings suggest how bullying could contribute to long-term social anxiety at the molecular level. http://phys.org/news220515011.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:10:57 EST news220515011 (PhysOrg.com) -- Children’s perception of how they are parented is a major predictor of whether they will develop mental health problems as teenager, according to research by the University and the Medical Research Council. http://phys.org/news220262826.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:20:01 EST news220262826 (PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to romantic relationships, have you ever made a decision that you regretted? http://phys.org/news220199100.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:26:29 EST news220199100 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new intelligence test, which can be taken by any living creature is being developed that will enable comparison of intellect between humans and animals. http://phys.org/news220198996.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:23:32 EST news220198996 (PhysOrg.com) -- Infants are able to learn grammatical regularities in a novel language surprisingly early and at a remarkable speed. In a study at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, researchers working with Angela Friederici showed that the brains of babies were able to learn grammatical relationships between sentence elements in less than 15 minutes and reacted to errors that broke these rules. This was investigated by playing recordings of sentences in Italian to four month old German babies and taking EEG measurements. (Plos One, 22. 03. 2011) http://phys.org/news220101943.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:26:08 EST news220101943 Bottling up emotions can make people more aggressive, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota that was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Army. http://phys.org/news220096492.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:55:10 EST news220096492 for instance, if you study more, you learn more. We are also constantly making judgments about particular instances of learning and remembering—I'll never forget this party! That was easy to understand. I'll ace it on the test. http://phys.org/news220024281.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:51:57 EST news220024281 (PhysOrg.com) -- People fluent in sign language may simultaneously keep words and signs in their minds as they read, according to an international team of researchers. http://phys.org/news220007032.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:04:30 EST news220007032 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by the University of St Andrews suggests that good looking women are most likely to sit back and allow their male date to pay. http://phys.org/news219991826.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:00:01 EST news219991826 Saying a prayer may help many people feel less angry and behave less aggressively after someone has left them fuming, new research suggests. http://phys.org/news219929234.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:50:02 EST news219929234 Along with the excitement and anticipation that come with heading off to college, freshmen often find questions of belonging lurking in the background: Am I going to make friends? Are people going to respect me? Will I fit in? http://phys.org/news219590762.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:26:47 EST news219590762 What's in a name? Letters. And psychologists have posited that the letters -- particularly the first letter of our names -- can influence decisions, including whom we marry and where we move. The effect is called "implicit egotism." http://phys.org/news219514286.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:11:43 EST news219514286 The numbers are, well, depressing: More than 2 million people age 65 and older suffer from depression, including 50 percent of those living in nursing homes. The suicide rate among white men over 85 is the highest in the country — six times the national rate. http://phys.org/news219499070.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:58:13 EST news219499070 (PhysOrg.com) -- The hippocampus, a brain area associated with memory and stress, was about six percent smaller on average in veterans with current chronic PTSD than in veterans who had recovered from PTSD, in a study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. http://phys.org/news219475617.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:33:37 EST news219475617 (PhysOrg.com) -- Learning a foreign language literally changes the way we see the world, according to new research. http://phys.org/news219396022.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:20:31 EST news219396022 (PhysOrg.com) -- The judgements we make about the intimacy of other couples’ relationships are influenced by the brain chemical serotonin, an Oxford University study has found. http://phys.org/news219319650.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:08:07 EST news219319650 (PhysOrg.com) -- During spring training, you will find Major League pitchers practicing their pitches, perfecting their technique and strengthening their muscles to endure the grueling 162 game season. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that hurlers might also consider the effect these sweltering months could have on their brains. http://phys.org/news218987847.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:57:36 EST news218987847 (PhysOrg.com) -- Unconsciously, right-handers associate good with the right side of space and bad with the left. But this association can be rapidly changed, according to a study published online March 9, 2011 in Psychological Science, by Daniel Casasanto (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) and Evangelia Chrysikou (University of Pennsylvania). Even a few minutes of using the left hand more fluently than the right can reverse right-handers' judgments of good and bad, making them think that the left is the 'right side' of space. Conceptions of good and bad are rooted in people's bodily experiences, and change when patterns of bodily experience change. http://phys.org/news218979715.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:42:10 EST news218979715 Researchers from Rice University and Georgia Institute of Technology have found support for the theory that the brain has three concentric layers of working memory where it stores readily available items. Memory researchers have long debated whether there are two or three layers and what the capacity and function of each layer is. http://phys.org/news218905745.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:09:26 EST news218905745 A study conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory demonstrated that drug addicted individuals who have a certain genetic makeup have lower gray matter density – and therefore fewer neurons – in areas of the brain that are essential for decision-making, self-control, and learning and memory. http://phys.org/news218738203.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:36:54 EST news218738203