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Math problems make more than a few students - and even teachers - sweat, but new brain research is providing insights into the earliest causes of the anxiety so often associated with mathematics. http://phys.org/news225034370.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 May 2011 15:10:05 EST news225034370 If you've ever suffered from a bad case of buyer's remorse, there may be a scientific remedy: spend more cognitive effort. http://phys.org/news221483752.html Other Sciences Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:16:16 EST news221483752 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 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:50:02 EST news219929234 People who make an effort to exert self-control are attracted to aggressive art and public policy appeals, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. They also don't appreciate messages that nag them to control their behavior. http://phys.org/news219583761.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:50:01 EST news219583761 The way you react to your two-year-old's temper tantrums or clinginess may lead to anxiety, withdrawal and behavior problems down the road, and the effect is more pronounced if the child is a boy who often displays such negative emotions as anger and social fearfulness, reports a new University of Illinois study. http://phys.org/news218810150.html Other Sciences Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:36:01 EST news218810150 Researchers have for decades hypothesized that negative emotions lead to inflated reports of common physical symptoms, like headaches or an upset stomach. But a new University of Iowa study suggests that two negative emotions –- depression and anxiety –- influence symptom reporting in different ways. http://phys.org/news218467404.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:24:13 EST news218467404 How easy is it to fake remorse? Not so easy if your audience knows what to look for. In the first investigation of the nature of true and false remorse, Leanne ten Brinke and colleagues, from the Centre for the Advancement of Psychology and Law (CAPSL), University of British Columbia and Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, show that those who fake remorse show a greater range of emotional expressions and swing from one emotion to another very quickly - a phenomenon referred to as emotional turbulence - as well as speak with more hesitation. These findings have important implications for judges and parole board members, who look for genuine remorse when they make their sentencing and release decisions. Ten Brinke's work is published in Springer's journal Law and Human Behavior. http://phys.org/news216476355.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:19:50 EST news216476355 (PhysOrg.com) -- A person's outlook on life can minimize -- or aggravate -- a person's chronic pain, reports a new Cornell study. http://phys.org/news215335030.html Medicine & Health Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:30:02 EST news215335030 (PhysOrg.com) -- A form of play therapy between parents and their toddlers can relieve depression in preschoolers, according to child psychiatry researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. http://phys.org/news214816349.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:50:01 EST news214816349 Some of the most intense emotions people feel occur during a conflict in a romantic relationship. Now, new research from Baylor University psychologists shows that how each person perceives the other partner's emotion during a conflict greatly influences different types of thoughts, feelings and reactions in themselves. http://phys.org/news214057901.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:50:01 EST news214057901 Along with integrity and compassion, respect for patients, colleagues and other team members is an essential attribute of medical professionalism. A new study examines how medical students learn respectful or disrespectful professional behavior. http://phys.org/news211460789.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:06:52 EST news211460789 (PhysOrg.com) -- Non-profits aiding the sick or poor could increase charitable donations through ads in which consumers empathize with an actor portraying an unfortunate plight. http://phys.org/news211041464.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:10:01 EST news211041464 People who are neurotic often have more difficulty with relationships and marriage. But if neurotic newlyweds have frequent sexual relations, their marital satisfaction is every bit as high as their less neurotic counterparts, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE). http://phys.org/news211001989.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:10:02 EST news211001989 Working to change the behaviour of family members may be an effective treatment for people with schizophrenia, according to a new Cochrane systematic review. The researchers reviewed the most up-to-date evidence on the subject and found that patients whose families received the interventions were less likely to relapse. http://phys.org/news208588782.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:19:50 EST news208588782 Managers who want their team to perform better should let employees express negative emotions. Teams who share bad feelings solve complicated problems better, share more information with each other and have a greater solidarity, concludes Dutch researcher Annefloor Klep. http://phys.org/news207922795.html Other Sciences Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:20:09 EST news207922795 Researchers from Utrecht University who studied the effect of negative emotions on pain perception in women with and without fibromyalgia found that anger and sadness amplified pain equally in both groups. Full findings are now online and will publish in the October print issue of Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology. http://phys.org/news204457121.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:38:53 EST news204457121 Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That's what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch and Japanese people assess others' emotions and finds that Dutch people pay attention to the facial expression more than Japanese people do. http://phys.org/news203768364.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:21:04 EST news203768364 Heart patients with the "distressed" (Type D) personality profile may face a higher risk of future cardiovascular problems, according to a summary article published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. http://phys.org/news203702037.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:10:01 EST news203702037 Anger, depression, and helplessness are the main psychological responses being seen in response to the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and they are likely to have long-lasting effects, according to an interview in Ecopsychology, a peer-reviewed, online journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.. http://phys.org/news202404220.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:24:14 EST news202404220 The notion that cutting or burning oneself could provide relief from emotional distress is difficult to understand for most people, but it is an experience reported commonly among people who compulsively hurt themselves. http://phys.org/news202387807.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:10:01 EST news202387807 Children who experience trauma may enter a cycle of negative emotions — anxiety and depression — that could contribute to health problems later and precipitate an early death, a leading health psychologist said Saturday. http://phys.org/news201061309.html Medicine & Health Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:10:01 EST news201061309 To understand how animals experience the world and how they should be treated, people need to better understand their emotional lives. A new review of animal emotion suggests that, as in humans, emotions may tell animals about how dangerous or opportunity-laden their world is, and guide the choices that they make. http://phys.org/news200074899.html Biology Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:00:01 EST news200074899 Feeling a sense of guilt or obligation towards an employer can increase an employee's commitment to an organisation, a University of Queensland Business School researcher has found in a study of Chinese workers. http://phys.org/news199442982.html Other Sciences Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:20:01 EST news199442982 (PhysOrg.com) -- Emotions -- particularly those provoked by negative events -- can cause distorted, inaccurate memories, but less often in children than in adults, according to a new Cornell study. http://phys.org/news198910620.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:30:01 EST news198910620 Researchers from the University of Burgos have studied the influence of emotional traits of the character in directors of Spanish banks and savings banks when making strategic decisions. The study concludes that executives who display the most negative emotions have less of a tendency to take risks. http://phys.org/news197895765.html Other Sciences Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:03:49 EST news197895765 Although long-term care of sick or disabled loved ones is widely recognized as a threat to the caregiver's health and quality of life, a new study led by University at Buffalo psychologist Michael Poulin, PhD, finds that in some contexts, helping valued loved ones may promote the well being of helpers. http://phys.org/news196436532.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:10:01 EST news196436532 When it comes to pain, the two competing schools of thought are that it's either "all in your head" or "all in your body". A new study led by University of Oxford researchers indicates that, instead, pain is an amalgam of the two. http://phys.org/news195129342.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:36:12 EST news195129342 After age 50, daily stress and worry take a dive and happiness increases, according to an analysis of more than 340,000 adults questioned about the emotions they experienced "yesterday." http://phys.org/news193390279.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 May 2010 09:20:01 EST news193390279 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published in the journal Pain offers support for the benefits of yoga-style breathing and meditation to help control chronic pain. http://phys.org/news189951566.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:20:19 EST news189951566 A study published in the April issue of Cognition shows that motor actions can partly determine people's emotional memories. Moving marbles upward caused participants to remember more positive life experiences, and moving them downward to remember more negative experiences, according to Daniel Casasanto (MPI Nijmegen) and Katinka Dijkstra (Erasmus University). "Meaningless" motor actions can make people remember the good times or the bad. http://phys.org/news189262335.html Medicine & Health Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:52:34 EST news189262335