News tagged with negative mood

Can social media detect the changes in public mood?

New research has analysed the mood of Twitter users in the UK and detected various changes in the mood of the public. In particular, the researchers observed a significant increase in negative mood, anger and fear, coinciding ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Emotions help animals to make choices

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Feeling blue? You'll shun the new

A sick or sad child might cling to mom's leg. But that same child - fed, rested and generally content - will happily toddle off to explore every nook and cranny of the known world. Or: You're chipper and you ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Think twice before you boo your competitor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Next time you watch a heavy weight lifting tournament, tell the person next to you not to boo the person that he doesn't want to win.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The problem with self-help books: Study shows the negative side to positive self-statements

In times of doubt and uncertainty, many Americans turn to self-help books in search of encouragement, guidance and self-affirmation. The positive self-statements suggested in these books, such as "I am a lovable person" or ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 7

Biological link established between tumors and depression

In a study that could help explain the connections between depression and cancer, researchers at the University of Chicago have used an animal model to find, for the first time, a biological link between tumors and negative ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Bad mood, better recall, researchers find

People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 11, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Why does feeling low hurt?

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Depressed people feel more gray than blue

People with anxiety and depression are most likely to use a shade of gray to represent their mental state. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medical Research Methodology describe the development of a colo ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Psychotherapy offers obesity prevention for 'at risk' teenage girls

A team of scientists at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the National Institutes of Health have piloted psychotherapy treatment to prevent excessive weight gain in teenager girls deemed 'at risk' ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0