News tagged with emotional factors

Escalation threatens strike resolution, say researchers

New research has added more gloom to the threat of strikes by showing how the emotional strain of protracted negotiations can lock rivals on a path to mutual destruction.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Do we buy cosmetics because they are useful or because they make us feel good?

A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) shows that people who use cosmetics buy these products primarily for emotional reasons. The study was carried out on facial creams (hydrating and nutritive ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Researchers find a 'liberal gene'

Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (27) | comments 574 | with audio podcast

Extremely preterm children are three times as likely to have psychiatric disorder

Significant advances in the neonatal intensive care have resulted in increased survival rates of children who are born at less than 26 weeks of gestation, so termed "extremely preterm children". Notably, however, improved ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Emotional health affects exercise patterns in breast cancer patients

The first study to monitor physical activity in breast cancer patients for five years suggests that patients with greater depressive symptoms and a lower emotional quality of life are less likely to exercise as part of their ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anxious pregnant women are more likely to have asthmatic children

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pregnant women who are stressed, particularly late in pregnancy, have an increased risk of their child going on to develop asthma, according to the latest research from Children of the 90s.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Heart Hazards of Woeful Wives

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women in strained marriages are more likely to feel depressed and suffer high blood pressure, obesity and other signs of "metabolic syndrome," a group of risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1